D Sqn Bag Pack

Cadets from Carlton, Arnold & Bakersfield Army Cadet Detachments have played a helping hand in raising money for Help the Heroes foundation after the son of a member of staff at Carlton's Tesco store lost a leg in the conflict in Afghanistan.

The main fundraising event will happen on Saturday 10^th & Sunday 11^th October with a car boot taking place in the lower car park as well as various in-store activities.

To help support the fundraising, cadets from around the Carlton area helped out on Saturday 3^rd & Sunday 4^th October by bag-packing in-store. They raised over £1500 with their efforts.

Sergeant Major Mark Hewerdine, detachment commander at Carlton, led the fundraising weekend:

"Help for Heroes is a charity particularly close to the ACF - we have so many friends and ex-cadets who are in the forces, many of them on operations, so it's nice for the cadets to be able to help raise money that will go towards something that is so personal to them. We'd just like to say a huge thank you to all the customers who donated money over the weekend."

Jayne Froggatt, personnel manager at Tesco's Carlton, was thrilled the cadets could make it to the event and said how much of an impact their presence had on the store.

"Our Charity of the Year at Tesco's is actually Muscular Dystrophy however when a son of a colleague of ours was injured in Afganistan, we set about trying to help him fundraise. The Help for Heroes weekend just came from that really, it just seemed like the right thing for us to do!"