Felix Fund

Along with my own writing and publishing projects, I also volunteered as the Publisher at Felix Fund – the bomb disposal charity for four years, producing three anthologies and a memoir by Justin ‘Troll’ Bell QGM.

My good friend Justin Bell QGM, known as ‘Troll’, was an ATO in the British Army for more than 20 years. ATO, Ammunition Technical Officer is the person you need with there’s a bomb threat, or an IED, a shell stuck in a Challenger tank, or someone to clear a minefield. Their work is painstaking, life-threatening, and takes place in the most challenging of environments – and there are no second chances.

Since 2013, I have volunteered with Felix Fund as fundraiser and events organiser, then in 2016, Troll and I wrote a play together, LATER, AFTER, about life after the military for a former bomb disposal officer.

My dear friend died in 2019 from brain cancer and lung cancer, caused, he believed, “by all the nasty shit I’ve handled over the years.”

He died far too young, and his widow and I worked hard to bring together the memoirs that he’d started but never finished: TROLL – MY LIFE IN BOMB DISPOSAL. She kindly donated the copyright to Felix Fund so others can benefit from his work.

Felix Fund is a charity that supports men and women who work in bomb disposal, and their families. 

I am proud to have be part of this amazing community for more than 13 years.