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Wounded, injured and sick veterans and service personnel are rebuilding their lives, gain qualifications and learn new skills by transforming and restoring the historic Pocklington canal. Help for Heroes and the Canal & River Trust and have come together to deliver an ambitious canal restoration and career recovery programme for veterans and service personnel from across the country. They have joined the Heritage Heroes project and are working alongside Canal & River Trust engineers, heritage advisors and volunteers from Pocklington Canal Amenity Society to resurrect part of the waterway. The 18-month project will also see new volunteers recruited from nearby local communities in East Riding, Yorkshire. The project, made possible by £500,000 funding from players of People’s Postcode Lottery, aims to bring pride and purpose back to our heroic veterans while restoring canals, some of which have been left neglected for decades. Veterans returning from service are highly-skilled and capable individuals