For the past 12 months members of the Catholic Women’s League of England and Wales have been raising funds for the National President’s Project.

A year ago members listened to a talk from David Gammell of Help for Heroes and naval chaplain Mgr Paul Donovan, who has served in Afghanistan, on the work of the charity. This inspired them to encourage friends, families and parishioners to raise as much money as they could for this worthwhile cause.

The result is a total sum of £81,210.73, which was presented to Help for Heroes at the League national AGM in Southport on Saturday October 23.