Coming Home is a

campaign Campaign or The Campaign may refer to: Types of campaigns * Campaign, in agriculture, the period during which sugar beets are harvested and processed *Advertising campaign, a series of advertisement messages that share a single idea and theme * Bl ...

launched on 18 May 2011 to help the UK's Servicemen and women whose lives have been changed so dramatically fighting for their country in

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

and

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

. '
Coming Home
'' was established under the aegis of the

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Haig Housing Trust (http://www.haighousingtrust.org.uk/ a sister charity of

Haig Homes Haig Housing is a charity founded in 1928 to provide housing for ex-servicemen in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands. Haig Homes is the leading UK provider of rental housing for ex-service people. Haig Homes has access to over 1,300 proper ...

) to provide specially adapted accommodation for badly injured

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who are left seriously disabled from the conflicts. The Coming Home campaign aims to raise £20 million over the next few years and complements the work of the charity

Help for Heroes Help for Heroes (H4H) is a British charity which provides lifelong recovery support to British Armed Forces service personnel who have been wounded or injured in the line of duty, and to their families, originally only since 11 September 2001, th ...

. Coming Home was given the support of the UK Prime Minister

David Cameron David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016. He previously served as Leader o ...

, Defence Secretary

Liam Fox Liam Fox (born 22 September 1961) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Trade from 2016 to 2019 and Secretary of State for Defence from 2010 to 2011. A member of the Conservative Party, Fox has served as th ...

, former head of the British Army General the Lord Dannatt and the founder of

, Bryn Parry. Since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan in 2001, 249 Servicemen have been very seriously injured and 260 seriously injured or wounded. There are a total of 168 amputees from Afghanistan – 14 are triple amputees, 66 double and the remainder have lost a single limb. The Chief Executive of Coming Home and Haig Housing Trust is former Brigadier James Richardson.

References

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