SSAFA fundraiser nominated for a Soldiering On Award

30 August 2022

Amazing SSAFA fundraiser, Gina Allsop, is nominated for this year’s Inspiration Award. This award honours a person who has overcome significant challenges, injury or disability, and whose ongoing or past outstanding achievements are an inspiration to others within the Armed Forces community. The winner of this award is chosen through a public vote.

Gina is a Veteran, adventure racer, volunteer with the Army Cadets, volunteer Marine Mammal Medic, and successful fundraiser. She is also the editor of a poetry book, Military Memories, which was inspired by her brother’s funeral. The book is an important way of raising funds for military charities, and as a conduit for mental wellbeing, both for those who wrote the poems and those who read them. She has raised thousands of pounds for charity and is an inspirational speaker at many SSAFA events.

Gina does all this, despite personal adversity. She has seen friends killed in action, her brother died of cancer, she has sustained many injuries, through service and sport yet still she soldiers on with a smile and support for others.