Editing Simon Weston (section)

==Charity work==
In 1986, Weston undertook his first goodwill tour, to Australia, at the request of the Guards Association of Australasia. The resulting donations to children's burns units made him begin to feel useful again.<ref name="ADSW " />

Weston became patron of a number of charities that support people living with disfigurements.<ref name="simonweston.com" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefacetrust.org/who-we-are.asp|title=Who we are|publisher=The Face Trust|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061218131647/http://www.thefacetrust.org/who-we-are.asp|archive-date=18 December 2006}}</ref> He is the Lead Ambassador for medical research charity, [[The Scar Free Foundation]], which funds research into scar free healing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Simon's Story – The Scar Free Foundation |url=https://scarfree.org.uk/ambassadors/simon-weston |access-date=2024-04-30 |website=scarfree.org.uk}}</ref> He also set up a national youth charity, Weston Spirit, in 1988 with Paul Oginsky and Ben Harrison, shortly after moving to [[Liverpool]]. However, in 2008, the charity suffered from financial difficulties and had to be shut down.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Falklands veteran loses charity battle|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/jun/11/voluntarysector|access-date=2020-09-03|newspaper=The Guardian |date=10 June 2008|last1=O'Hara |first1=Mary }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=WESTON SPIRIT – Overview (free company information from Companies House)|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02300741|access-date=2020-09-03|website=beta.companieshouse.gov.uk}}</ref>

Weston is also a patron of the LMS-Patriot Project.<ref>https://lms-patriot.org.uk/news/2016-06-06/simon-weston-cbe-appointed-first-patron-lms-patriot-project Simon Weston appointed first patron</ref> The Project is constructing a new replica [[LMS Patriot Class]] steam locomotive, number [[LMS Patriot Class 5551 The Unknown Warrior|5551 The Unknown Warrior]]. On 10 November 2018 in a ceremony at [[Crewe Heritage Centre]] he unveiled the locomotives new crest which would be carried above the locomotives nameplates (the previous one being the [[Royal British Legion]] crest which the RBL later asked to be removed from the engine).<ref>https://www.lms-patriot.org.uk/news/2018-11-12/simon-weston-cbe-unveils-crest-unknown-warrior Simon Weston unveils crest</ref><ref>* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwe7qesQFx8 The Unknown Warrior's crest unveiling</ref>