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The 'permanent' closure of a valuable community centre for armed forces veterans has been announced. Salford Veterans Community Centre in Eccles, Salford, which only opened earlier this year, said that without staff and financial support it 'could not carry on in its current state'.
The centre was a non-profit making charity reliant on volunteers and run by veterans - with its closure announced 'with a heavy heart'. There had been plans to transform a room upstairs into a counselling and function room. It's understood there are around 16,000 veterans in Salford, with access to 'little support for mental health and well-being', according to Mr Blower.
The 52-year-old dad of three said he was inspired to launch the project because of his first-hand experience of what Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder can do, having served in the military for 13 years and witnessed the devastating affect war has had on his colleagues and civilians.
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