After Armistice Day you can recycle your poppy at any Sainsbury’s supermarket from 12 - 26 November. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. “Anyone who chooses not to wear a poppy is fine by us. The Legion was very active in the years after independence in raising funds for Irishmen who had served in the British armed forces. The British Legion was founded in 1921 to alleviate the immense suffering of British and Commonwealth servicemen who survived the first World War.
There are also a variety of enamel poppy pins that you can wear instead of a paper poppy and we have a range of alternatives available from our Poppy Shop.
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194893 at New Haig House, Logie Green Road, Edinburgh EH7 4HQ. Traditional lapel poppy with stem or stick-on back - £1. We provide support for current and former members of the Armed Forces as well as their families.
Whenever, wherever support is needed, we are here. Republic of Ireland winger James McClean has consistently said he will not wear a poppy because of what happened in his native Derry during Bloody Sunday.
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Established in 1921 as The Earl Haig Fund Scotland, we adopted our current name and logo in 2006 to reflect our revised fundraising activities and welfare services work.
The main fundraising events happen on or around November 11th. In 2011, we merged with sister charity The Royal British Legion (TRBL), which operates in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, to form the largest charity group supporting the Armed Forces community across the UK. The size of this figure may surprise a lot of people, but there is a tradition stretching back centuries of the Irish in the British armed forces even after Irish independence.
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Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. In fall, when the weather cools, they come back stronger than before. In 1920 the poppy was proclaimed as the United States' national emblem of Remembrance and the following year Madame Guerin, a Frenchwoman, sold millions to raise funds for rehabilitation in areas of France. With a grant of just £2,000 from the Unity Relief Fund, he set up a small factory in south London with five ex-servicemen. Last year we raised more than £4.7 million in voluntary income, and spent in excess of £3.2 million on our charitable activities.
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