OP-REGEN - Walking With The Wounded's Volunteer Programme
"I have volunteered with Walking With The Wounded on many occasions so I felt it was the natural thing for me to step up from being a regular volunteer to spear head an event or two. Part of my degree is undertaking a work placement in my third year and I felt that OP-REGEN would be best suited for this as gives me an insight to what the working day would entail and I will gain the necessary soft skills which are paramount for a human-centred working environment."
- Bjorn, OP-REGEN Captain
Volunteering with Walking With The Wounded
OP-REGEN is a volunteering project that offers a platform
for ex-military personnel to recognise their inherent skills and empowers them
to demonstrate these skills to the wider community. For those that have landed
on hard times, the project aims to support these individuals and their families
to reintegrate back into society and to have a meaningful positive impact on
the environment in which they reside; additionally, for those not in employment
the projects aims to assist in their journey back into the workplace.
Although focused on ex-military, more generally the project
is supported by volunteers from all backgrounds including Corporate UK and
encourages these individuals to work together, leading to a greater increase in
community cohesion and safer neighborhoods.
OP-REGEN embodies the future ambitions of Walking With The Wounded to support ex-military seeking support and to find
those that require support but are not seeking it.