Forthcoming Events

Below is a list of forthcoming events during 2017 that you may be interested in.  More details will be made available as they come to hand.

Concert at Christ Church Bexleyheath  - 14 October at 7.00 pm - A joint fundraising concert will be held featuring the Countess of Wessex's String Orchestra.  Christ Church will host the event and funds raised will be split between them and the RBL for the Poppy Appeal.  This is a very entertaining evening and well worth supporting.

Garden of Remembrance at Christ Church Bexleyheath - Official opening  28 October 2016

Poppy Appeal launch -  28 - 29 October 2017 in Bexleyheath Town Centre

Poppy Appeal 2017   This will run from Saturday  28 October to Saturday 11 November.  We will have static points in Welling (Morrisons and Tesco) and Bexleyheath (The Mall and ASDA). Static points will be in operation from Monday 30 October. If you are interested is helping out as a Poppy seller during this period please contact us.

Remembrance Day -  11 November. 

Remembrance Sunday - Sunday  12  November  There will be a parade and service at Bexleyheath War Memorial

Great Pilgrimage 90 - Sunday 5 August 2018 - Thursday 9 August 2018. Great Pilgrimage 90 (GP90) will be the Legion’s biggest membership event in its history. A tour to WW1 battlefields and cemeteries will mark 90 years since the Great Pilgrimage. We have registered our interest in participating in this event and will start planning after the Poppy Appeal.  Further details will be published on our Facebook page as it becomes available.

Many of these events are actively supported by Bexley Council and Bexleyheath BID for which we are very grateful.