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This year our team is running to raise funds for WAVE, the largest cross community victims’ group in Northern Ireland.

WAVE is a grassroots, cross community, voluntary organisation formed in 1991 which has grown organically to provide health and wellbeing services and social support to those who have experienced bereavement, injury or trauma through or as a result of civil unrest in Northern Ireland.

Whilst initially concerned with the bereaved, in 1995 the remit was expanded to include those who were injured and/or traumatised in the Troubles/Conflict in Northern Ireland.

During those early days the organisation experienced a time of rapid growth with Welfare Advice, a Youth Service and additional therapeutic interventions being added to existing Outreach Befriending and Social Support programmes.

At its core WAVE believes that ‘trauma’ should never define a person. WAVE works to help individuals and communities to address their trauma or at least manage to live with it, and to rediscover a more fulfilled life.

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