Help for Heroes Phoenix Wellness Centre up and running

The new Help for Heroes  rehabilitation facility, built with support from GSK is now up and running at Tedworth House, Wiltshire.

The GSK partnership, announced last year, will support the state-of-the-art Phoenix Centre over the next four years.

Prime Minister David Cameron visited the centre last week to meet the servicemen and women who benefit from some of the UK’s most advanced sports facilities and technology. Katie Pinnock, Head of UK Corporate Contributions, represented GSK at the event.  She met the Prime Minister and joined him on a tour of the new 700m² centre. Highlights of the tour were the SwimEx, Strength and Conditioning gym and the team sports gymnasium, all of which are now available to deliver tailored health, sport and exercise programmes to over 1,000 injured servicemen and women each year.

GSK’s partnership with Help for Heroes not only provides on-going sustainable support, with GSK donating the sum of £1million over five years but also provides on-going support in the form of know-how and expertise.  It is due to this donation that the charity has been able to build the Phoenix centre which forms part on an on-going national programme of four recovery Centres that are due for completion in 2013.

Kate Pinnock said: “We are delighted to see the Phoenix Centre up and running, using the latest advances in sport technology to aid recovery. It is an impressive example of Help for Heroes’ holistic and innovative approach to improving the health and wellbeing of wounded servicemen and women.

GSK is committed to developing long-term sustainable partnerships with charities and we are particularly proud of our five-year relationship with Help for Heroes.”