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SUPPORTING TE AM UK
FUNDRAISING GALA
FOR THE INVICTUS GAMES
UK DELEGATION
FRIDAY 29TH JUNE 2018
THE DORCHESTER, PARK LANE, LONDON
Photo © Help for Heroes
MENU AGENDA
Poached Salmon Timbale, Champagne Reception
salad of micro greens, Buddha lemon mayonnaise
Live performance from Laura Wright
Heritage Beetroot,
Starter Served
fresh feta, confit of figs with micro cress (v)
Q&A with the Invictus Competitors
hosted by Alex Payne
Lamb Wellington,
Main Course Served
autumn vegetables, chive mash, tarragon cream
Live Auction by Jonny Gould
Vegetarian “Wellington”,
truffle mash, seasonal vegetables (v) Dessert Served
Formalities Conclude
Chocolate Rocher, Live performance by Bat Out Of Hell
hazelnut ice cream Last Orders
Carriages
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A WELCOME FROM THE AN INTRODUCTION TO THE
INVICTUS GAMES UK DELEGATION INVICTUS GAMES UK TEAM
We would like to welcome you all to this event and thank you for the support More hopefuls than ever before – 451 – applied to be a part of the UK Team for
you are showing to our Team UK Invictus Games competitors. the Invictus Games Sydney 2018.
The Invictus Games are a powerful demonstration of the dedication our men The 72-strong team, of which 64% are brand new to the Invictue Games, was
and women displayed when they served our country. It is a celebration of how unveiled in May. Selection was based on the benefit the Invictus Games will
they confronted hardship, but refused to be defined by their injury or illness. give an individual as part of their recovery, combined with performance and
It empowers them and enables them to have a second chance at life. commitment to training.
The Games offer our wounded, injured and sick competitors a great opportunity The UK delegation to the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 is once again being
and a great responsibility; an opportunity to continue their recovery through the delivered by a partnership comprising Help for Heroes, The Ministry of Defence,
power of sport and comradeship, but also the responsibility to inspire others in and The Royal British Legion.
need of help by showing resilience, courage and optimism.
Help for Heroes is training, selecting and developing the team for the Invictus
Your support is helping us to deliver a team ready to rise to the Invictus Games Games and The Royal British Legion is leading work to support the team’s friends
challenge in 2018 and the years to come. Your passion to help is enabling our and families in the UK and Sydney. Jaguar Land Rover is proud to support Team
competitors to proudly represent their country again and wear the Union Flag UK for the fourth Games.
on their chest with great pride. Thank you for sharing the journey with us.
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THANK YOU FROM THE INVICTUS GAMES UK DELEGATION MARK “DOT” PERKINS
Mark “Dot” Perkins is the 2018 Team UK Captain.
“There are few moments in one’s life when an event occurs that truly transforms
your life, the Invictus Games is it. They are all about empowerment, they empower
us all to fight the chains of physical disability, to fight the intangible burden of
mental illness and they empower us to focus on being the best we can be despite
the scars that we all now wear.
“Whilst participating in the Games our scars are like medals that we can proudly
display rather than hide in shame or embarrassment. The Invictus Games allow
us to be judged on what we can achieve, rather than what we can’t. To simply be
selected for Team UK was an amazing achievement. To then be further selected as
the Captain and to represent these incredibly brave men and women is extremely
humbling, it is a huge privilege to be given this honour.”
Former Royal Signals Corporal Dot was discharged in 2005. He now works as a
civil servant rehabilitating injured soldiers and will compete in cycling and rowing.
Photo © Help for Heroes
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Alex Payne
Alex Payne is a television presenter and event host.
In 13 years with Sky Sports, he has spent six years presenting on Sky Sports
News as well as fronting Sky’s live tennis and poker. He is now the lead presenter
on their rugby union coverage and has covered three Lions tours, England
internationals and the domestic and European game.
Alongside his television work he has been involved with podcasts for Sky,
The Times and O2 and hosted events for Guinness, Société Générale, HSBC,
QBE, Heineken, Help for Heroes and the NSPCC among others.
He is happy to admit he is living his dream.
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UK DELEGATION PARTNERSHIP ORGANISATIONS
Help for Heroes believes that those who put penny we raise, facility we run and activity we The Ministry of Defence is a partner in the The Royal British Legion is at the heart of a
their lives on the line for us, deserve a second offer is to help Veterans and Service Personnel Defence Recovery Capability, a programme national network that supports our Armed
chance at life. We provide lifetime support for reach their potential, regain their purpose and which helps wounded, injured and sick Forces community through thick and thin –
the Armed Forces Community and their families. have a positive impact on society. Service personnel either return to duty from ensuring their unique contribution is never
Today, seven people will be medically discharged injury or provides a mechanism to help them forgotten. We’ve been here since 1921 and
We achieve this through physical and emotional
from the Armed Forces and their lives will back into civilian life. we’ll be here as long they need us.
rehabilitation and recovery. We also identify
change forever. In an instant, these highly-
new career opportunities and offer financial and A key activity of the Defence Recovery We are here to support Service men and
trained individuals will lose the camaraderie,
welfare support. Capability is the Battle Back programme, an women, veterans and their families. From
purpose and career which has been their life.
MOD initiative that delivers an adaptive sport dedicated care homes to sports and arts
We know that those who serve together, recover
We provide recovery and support for the Armed and adventurous training programme for based rehabilitation; we are here to help with
better together – supporting each other, enjoying
Forces community whose lives are affected wounded, injured and sick Service personnel. finance, independent living, care, recovery,
a sense of fellowship once more. During our first
by their service, no matter when they served. The Battle Back programme is delivered, respite and employment.
ten years, we’ve directly helped more than 17,000
Our aim is to empower Veterans and Service funded and organised in partnership with Help
individuals and their families in this way. www.rbl.org.uk
Personnel to look beyond illness and injury. Every for Heroes, The Royal British Legion and other
www.helpforheroes.org.uk Service charities.
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Photo © Help for Heroes
PANELLISTS
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DAVE HENSON BERNIE BROAD
Dave Henson, a track athlete specialising in the T42 200m, joined the army Bernie Broad, a former Army Major with the Grenadier Guards, lost
in 2008 and served in the Royal Engineers. He was injured in Afghanistan both his legs below the knee due to injuries sustained in an explosion
in 2011 and was discharged as a Captain in March 2014. Help for Heroes in Helmand Province in 2009. He underwent four and a half years of
has supported Dave throughout his recovery. extensive surgery whilst at the same time undergoing rehabilitation at
Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court. He said: “Since
“It was just a normal day on operations,” recalls Dave. “I went across the
being medically retired from the Armed Forces in 2014 after 32 years’
compound to gain line of sight with the infantry guys we were working with
service, I felt that I had lost my motivation and drive and had become
and turned around and then then that was kind of it. Blown up… legless.”
quite complacent. I have always been a keen and competitive sportsman
That was the moment that changed everything for Dave. With both legs so I kick started my fitness regime and now regularly swim, walk and play
amputated above the knee, his time in the Army was over and he faced a golf. The Invictus Games was a way to re-focus myself physically and
long and difficult recovery. It was at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation mentally and to re-engage in a full, active, competitive and fulfilling life.”
Centre, Headley Court that his association with Help for Heroes and sport
On being chosen as UK Team Captain for Invictus Games Toronto 2017,
really began: “For the military, sport is massively important because it
he added: “The Invictus Games are empowering and inspire all of us as
forms such a key part of our normal everyday working life pre-injury. To
competitors to be the best version of ourselves. It allows us to be judged
have the ability to regain what we might have thought was lost is huge.”
on what we can achieve, rather than what we can’t. To simply be selected
He won a gold medal in the IT2 200m race at the inaugural Invictus Games for the UK Team was an amazing achievement. To then be further selected
in London, 2014. He was also the British Armed Forces Team Captain. as the UK Team Captain filled me with such immense pride and it is a huge
Since then, Dave won a further Gold medal at the 2016 Invictus Games in privilege to be given this honour. I definitely stood taller and my chest
Orlando and was selected by Paralympics GB to compete in the T42 200 expanded quite a bit!”
metres. He went on to win a bronze medal.
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DAVID WISEMAN JJ CHALMERS
David ‘Wisey’ Wiseman, a former captain in the Army, was Team UK John James ‘JJ’ Chalmers was serving with the Royal Marines in Helmand Province, Afghanistan,
captain in Orlando 2016. The multiple medal winner returned in Toronto in 2011 when he suffered life-changing injuries from an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast.
2017 to compete in his third Games as a swimmer, having played a big He lost two fingers, suffered facial and leg injuries and his right elbow was badly damaged.
part in the inaugural Games in London in 2014. David suffered a gunshot Having undergone facial reconstruction and surgery on his left eye and both legs, JJ spent time
wound to the chest which led to the end of his military career. He was then at the Help for Heroes Recovery Centre, Tedworth House, and went on to compete at the 2014
diagnosed with PTSD in 2012 after witnessing comrades die while on tour. Invictus Games. There he won medals in cycling and on the track. After getting a glimpse into the
He sought help for his mental health issues. world of media and broadcasting at the Invictus Games and watching the Paralympics at London
2012, JJ decided to pursue a career in presenting.
David said: “The pool is the only place where I can fully empty my head.
When I am swimming everything is calm and still, and I focus purely “The athletes I’ve had the opportunity to interview over the years, whether it be established
on body position, how my hands are striking the water, controlling my Paralympic athletes who took part in 2012 or the lads coming through from Help for Heroes,
Photo © Help for Heroes
breathing and counting my lengths or strokes. I use the feeling of the are unbelievable. Watching the London 2012 Paralympics made me proud to be disabled. My
water and the experience of swimming in my tools for dealing with hyper recovery has shown me the world is full of truly awesome people. It’s my dream and ambition to
vigilance, panic and disassociation. Aside from my wife, swimming has have the opportunity to tell their stories.”
been the unshakeable and constant support in my recovery, and the focus
JJ has gone on to present National Paralympic Day for Channel 4 as well as an online show for the
for my swimming over the past few years has been the Invictus Games.”
IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha. He presented for Channel 4 during their coverage of
the 2016 Paralympics in Rio and was a lead BBC presenter for the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto.
“Being a Royal Marine Commando was the greatest job in the world. My next career needed to be
something I love doing and would make me want to get out of bed in the morning. It’s got to be
Photo © Help for Heroes
something that makes me want to give everything I’ve got and presenting is that.”
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LAURA WRIGHT BAT OUT OF HELL
A Royal College of Music opera graduate with over the summer of 2016 Laura proudly performed a The award-winning musical Bat Out Of Hell is proud to be
a million album sales under her belt, Laura Wright special version of the National Anthem for Her partnering with the Invictus Games Foundation.
has been one of the biggest selling classical artists Majesty’s 90th birthday, on Pall Mall.
Bat Out of Hell is one of the best-selling albums in history,
of the decade with a number one album in the
A familiar face at worldwide sporting events, Laura selling over 50 million copies worldwide. 16 years later,
classical charts, with “The Last Rose”.
is proud to be the England Rugby team’s first ever Steinman scored again with Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell,
While there are many proud moments in her official anthem singer, performing at the men’s which contained the massive hit I Would Do Anything For Love
career, such as singing the Kyrie in Faure’s and women’s rugby matches at Twickenham (But I Won’t Do That).
Requiem under conductor Barry Wordsworth Stadium. Laura is a regular at the NFL Series in
The stage production combines the incomparable magic of a
with The Royal Ballet at Covent Garden Opera London, and has performed at the Rugby World
musical, together with the immense energy of rock music, and
House, performing a specially written piece for Cup, Rugby League matches, The Carnegie
features Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf’s greatest hits including
Her Majesty The Queen in Westminster Abbey Challenge Cup Final, WSB Boxing, The Carling Cup
You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, Bat Out Of Hell,
ranks as one of the highest. The piece, titled Final, The Championship Play-off Final, Silverstone,
I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) and Two
‘Stronger as One’ was commissioned for the The Grand National, Ascot and the FA Cup Final.
Out Of Three Ain’t Bad.
Commonwealth in Her Majesty’s Jubilee year. A
Laura is also extremely proud to be closely
more recent performance at the Abbey saw Laura Bat Out Of Hell wowed critics and audiences alike during
involved with the Invictus Games where she
perform Handel’s ‘Let the Bright Seraphim’ for Her limited seasons in Manchester, London and Toronto in 2017,
wrote and performed the song ‘Invincible’ at the
Majesty and The Duke of Edinburgh, celebrating and has been seen by nearly half a million people. The musical
Opening Ceremony. Laura has travelled with the
the 90th anniversary of the Duke of Edinburgh transferred to its current home at London’s Dominion Theatre
Games to both the Orlando Games of 2016 and
Award Scheme. A regular at Royal occasions, in in April 2018, where it plays to standing ovations every night.
Toronto in 2017 as a UK Team Ambassador.
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Alexander Talbot Rice is fast becoming Invictus Games UK team in 2014; this Hannah Shergold, an ex Army Lynx helicopter pilot turned
one of the most sought after portrait painting will be auctioned tonight. artist, will create a piece of original art during the course of
artists of his generation, having the evening.
His portraits include:
undertaken numerous commissions
HM The Queen 2005 Her unique style using oil paints and palette knives has drawn
for the British Royal Family and other
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh 2004 international attention to her work and she is currently hosting
world leaders.
HRH The Prince of Wales 2006 her first solo exhibition at La Galleria, Pall Mall, until Saturday
In 2014 he was embedded as a war HH Pope Benedict XIV 2010 30th June. Hannah was also recently selected as the only Wild
artist, with the Welsh Guards and Lady Thatcher 2012 Card artist to compete in the 2019 Sky Arts Portrait Artist of
Yorkshire Regiment in Helmand HE Cardinal Vincent Nichols 2014 the Year competition. Special guests will be invited to sign the
Afghanistan, so the Invictus Games painting, making this a truly unique item. A limited edition print
The only artist to have trained at both
have a particular meaning to him. will be available in the weeks following the event.
the Florence Academy in Italy and
He also founded The Afghan Rugby The Repin Academy in St Petersburg, For further information please visit www.hannahshergold.com
Federation in Kabul in 2010, having Alexander is known for capturing the
been attached to an NGO in Kabul in humanity and character of his subjects.
2009, during which time he rode across
He is shortly launching his first
the country on horseback.
collection from the Mariinsky Ballet in
To raise money for the Invictus Games St Petersburg, examples of which are
UK team, he has painted a portrait of exhibited for the first time this evening.
David Henson, former Captain of the
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FUNDRAISING GALA FOR THE INVICTUS GAMES UK DELEGATION FUNDRAISING GALA FOR THE INVICTUS GAMES UK DELEGATION82% of the profits will be distributed to: Help For Heroes (registered charity number 1120920) holding funds on a restricted basis to fund the UK Delegation to the Invictus Games Sydney 2018
who will receive 66% and the Invictus Games Foundation (registered charity number 1159482) will receive 16%. Zeus Events are responsible for the organisation of the Gala Dinner and for raising
funds on the evening. They are underwriting the costs of the event. They will be paid a fee for their services partly calculated by reference to, and proportionate to, the sum raised. We anticipate
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