AN “ABSOLUTELY vital” rehabilitation centre has received a major boost from a Royal Air Force fund.
The St Dunstan’s centre, which provides rehabilitation and support to blind ex-Servicemen and women, received a donation of £100,000 by from RAF Benevolent Fund.
The money will help fund the new centre in Craig-y-Don which will open in autumn this year.
Sir Robert Wright, Controller of the RAF Benevolent Fund, visited the new centre to see the development taking shape and to present Chief Executive Robert Leader and James Hill - a St Dunstan's beneficiary who served with the RAF - with the donation.
Sir Robert said: “I am delighted to present this donation. St Dunstan’s does absolutely vital work rehabilitating and training Royal Air Force personnel affected by blindness and visual impairment, and of course supporting their families too."
The new centre will enable St Dunstan's - a national charity, to expand its work supporting and rehabilitating ex-Servicemen and women who have served in the Armed Forces, including war blind personnel injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Robert Leader, St Dunstan's Chief Executive said: "St Dunstan's is honoured to accept this generous donation from the RAF Benevolent Fund for our new rehabilitation and training centre in Llandudno.
"This is a wonderful example of service charities working together to ensure that our people receive the help they urgently need to cope with the challenges of blindness and other injuries, especially at a time when men and women are returning from current conflict wounded every day."
For more information on the RAF Benevolent Fund, visit www.rafbf.org.