paul colling

H4HPaul

Fundraising for Help for Heroes
£10,236
raised of £10,000 target
by 11 supporters
Event: Hero Up, on 12 August 2025 Start fundraising for this event
Hero Up
Campaign by Help for Heroes (RCN 1120920 (England & Wales) and SC044984 (Scotland))
Put your gaming skills to good use: Trade gameplay for donations and raise money for Wounded Veterans. Choose any game and time that suits you. How you choose to Hero Up is up to you!

Story

❤️ 🙏 Please help me thank Help For Heroes for the support they have given me and so many more. Read below for more details and help us hit 10k together 🙏 ❤️ 

Together we have been on one hell of a journey gaming, from learning what streaming is, how much a pc costs, how to build them, meeting some really great people I now call friends for life. Fundraising for a good cause is life changing. Give it ago you won't regret it.

H4HGaming Community 

Our H4H community is full of good people wanting to make a difference, we aim to raise money and awarness for the much loved charity Help For heroes, there are several benneficaries that are members of this community who can vouch for the life saving work H4H do, we wouldnt be anything without the amaizing supporters and volunteers that give their time to make a diffrence. Join Our Force For Good

Help For Heroes have helped save and better my life along with many of the gamers in our comunity. We want to thank Help For Heroes for the support they offer us every day even in these unpresidented times and allowing Help For Heroes gamers for the opertunity to use gaming for good.

A little bit about H4H paul

Army veteran Paul Colling (H4Hpaul) lost the life and the job he loved after a traumatic leg injury left him in near-constant pain.


He knew from a young age that his goal was to follow in his brother’s footsteps and serve. “Joining the army was everything, it was who I wanted to be”. As a physical trainer in the Signals, sports-loving Paul regularly took part in endurance marches and fitness training. But an injury sustained early on in his career was to have enduring consequences; Paul sustained a traumatic ankle injury, damaging the ligaments, tendons and cartilage during a training exercise.


Despite his injury causing him frequent bouts of pain Paul went on to have a successful career training recruits. But in 2017 his career came to a sudden end; another training exercise had caused more damage. “They scanned my leg, and I was told I had to leave. It was like my world ended.  Who you are, everything you’ve worked for, everything you wanted to achieve just gone.”


“I think that was the first time I’ve ever been mentally broken. It snapped me.”


On the surface, Paul seemed to manage the transition into civilian life fairly seamlessly. He found a new job with a waste management company that created stability and his employers were understanding when operations for his injury were needed. But the soldier inside was at war with his new path, and Paul struggled mentally with the sudden loss of his military identity. Twice, he reached the point where he considered ending his own life.


“Every soldier is taught to crack on and show they’re alright, so I didn’t really acknowledge my declining mental state at first. Looking back now I felt lost, confused and alone. Struggling with the acceptance that you’re not who you wanted to be, that everything you fought for, is hard.”


A Help for Heroes coaching course provided a crucial turning point. “The course helped me accept that I probably wasn’t 100% mentally where I thought I was. It made me see life from a different perspective and it’s also helped me help others along the way.


“I‘m also a member of the Band of Brothers fellowship which is great because it brings everyone together – it doesn’t matter what a person’s battle is or what they’re going through, you’re all helping each other.”


Now, Paul’s career is thriving and having made progress in his own recovery, he even volunteers for us to raise awareness of the continuing need for veterans’ support. He enjoys interacting with the public and raising awareness about the continuing need for veterans’

About the campaign

Put your gaming skills to good use: Trade gameplay for donations and raise money for Wounded Veterans. Choose any game and time that suits you. How you choose to Hero Up is up to you!

About the charity

Help for Heroes

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RCN 1120920 (England & Wales) and SC044984 (Scotland)
Veterans & their families face their toughest battles yet. Painful injuries. Mental trauma. Disability. Isolation. Our life-changing services support them. From physical & mental health care, to help with welfare & medical needs. Your fundraising ensures they get this specialist support for life.

Donation summary

Total raised
£10,235.97
+ £71.25 Gift Aid
Online donations
£835.97
Offline donations
£9,400.00

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