“Doing The Same Things Differently”Defence Adaptive Sport and Adventurous Training

“Battle Back helps you re-discover yourself!”“A MOD-initiative - part of the Army-led Defence Recovery

Capability - supported by two Service Charity / Third Sector Key Partners, Help for Heroes and The Royal British Legion,

via a programme of inclusive Adaptive Sport and Adventurous Training activities with a week-long

Multi-Activity Course as Main Effort and a mandatory Core Recovery Event in the Individual Recovery Plans

of the Army’s Wounded, Injured and Sick”

Trust + Achieve a Goal

Stirling

51(Scot) Bde

X

Lisburn

38 (Irish)Bde

Preston

42 (NW)Bde

X

X

York

15 (NE)Bde

X

49 (E)Bde

X

Shrewsbury

143 (WM)Bde

X

Brecon

160 (W)Bde

X

Aldershot

145 (S)Bde

X

Tidworth

43 (Wx)Bde

X

London

LONDIST

XX

BFG

XX

DevonportHasler Coy

Defence Recovery locations

Edinburgh

Colchester Sennelager

BattleBack Centre

Catterick

RAF PRU

Tidworth

“The Offer”: training supporting Individual Recovery Plans

● Expert Armed Forces’ + contractor Leeds Metropolitan University’s Carnegie Faculty (LMUCF) support for target audience: 1200 x Wounded, Injured + Sick (WIS) “Battle Backers” (possibly 2700 overall)

● Residential @ Battle Back Centre: 24 x 1-week courses for 24 x Battle Backer (16 x bedroom are Equality / Disability Act compliant) These 24 x 1-week Multi-Activity Courses are our “Main Effort"● External national + global training via overall BB Programme

● Focus: voluntary “Challenge by Choice” activities in an innovative and flexible programme are NOT “euphoric but useless” but “Mentoring”. ● Qualifications: Institute of Leadership Management (ILM) via LMCF Contractors. This is equivalent to GCSE grade A* to C.● Bid for 2012 Olympics’ “kit” swimming pool tbc by Sport England.● Elite / Paralympian: a “gladiatorial fringe benefit”.

Recovery Pathway via Individual Recovery Plans

AssessmentCourse

Life Skills

BattleBack

(DA/ISAT)-Motivation

-AT-Sport

-Culture

DischargeAssessment-HARDFACTS

Coordination with: Regiment, Family, Patient Group

Clinical

Welfare

Learning and Development e.g. Battle Back

Employment

RTD

Pers-onnelAid

INFLOW OUTFLOWRECOVERY

AssignmentBoard

Transition to Civilian Life

Main Effort

Return to Duty

DRC Cornerstones:

-Command-Partnership-Assessment-Employment

Stoke Mandeville + Headley Court

● Sir Ludwig Guttmann● WW2 Veterans● Spinal Injuries● Military Instructors● Paralympics since 1948

Freedom to be yourself:Challenge and Letting Go!

“We all have it somewhere. This course has unlocked the potential to succeed again…”

“What a week! Could not have asked for better company. Truly inspired and opened my eyes!”

“Strangers at the start, true friends at the end!”

“Best week in my career. Staff are awesome…”

“Battle Back helps you re-discover yourself!”

“It’s all about the blokes and ‘blokesses’”