Last year's Aberdeen UK Platform Awards dinner raised more than £22,000 for the Help for Heroes charity, organiser CWC Research has announced.
The annual awards dinner, held on 29 September and hosted by BBC newsreader Kate Silverton, raised £22,710 for Help for Heroes. Some 400 people attending the event contributed £7,570. The sum was matched by lead sponsor Aberdeen Asset Management. Help for Heroes is a charity formed to help men and women injured when serving in the UK armed forces. At the dinner Robin Hollington - whose son Richard was the 300th member of the UK armed forces to die from wounds received in Afghanistan - told the audience about the needs of severely injured service personnel. "Once again this demon...
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