An Exmouth woman with experience of helping disabled winter sports athletes has joined armed forces charity Help for Heroes to provide veterans with sports recovery support.

Hannah Lake, 27, previously spent as many as nine years coaching winter sports around the world and worked alongside Disabled Wintersport Australia, helping those with disabilities to participate.

Hannah said: "This is a really great opportunity for me to use my background and experience in a different way. One of my friends had support from Help for Heroes – he's an amputee – and he's now on the Paralympic X-Cross snowboard team.

"Another one of my friends was a guide for the Winter Paralympic team and, when I did a session with him, I was just blown away: he'd taken a guy who'd lost his sight after illness and had never skied before, to a place in the Winter Paralympics."

Hannah will be supporting veterans using sports recovery methods and being outdoors.

She added: "I'm also looking to challenge the veterans a little bit, as that's their mentality, and just to help them be the best they can be.

"I'm looking forward to having the opportunity to build relationships and create change and then experiencing the veterans' own self-managed recovery and celebrating the achievements those individuals make."

If you would like to donate to Help for Heroes, please click here to go to its website.

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