CAN you help Blue Apple Heroes?

The veterans charity are looking for volunteers with skills in admin, gardening, mentoring or who can give veterans lifts to and from appointments.

A spokesman added: "Our small support team is looking for volunteers so we can give more help to those who are in need.

"We meet veterans and their families in their own home, look at what their needs are and then we work on a plan how best to support them which might be anything from housing, to assisting them with counselling, employment, or just day to day living.

"We also have a gardening programme where able veterans go and do other disabled veterans' gardens or retired peoples' gardens."

For more information, e-mail blueappleheroes@mail.com or pop into the charity's centre The Blue Apple Community Gallery Coffee Shop between 10am and 4pm Monday to Friday at 4 Friars Chambers, Rylands Street,