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Chair on the Western Front

May 27, 2025

In true leadership spirit, Chair of Trustees Simon Caraffi, is taking on a mammoth fundraising challenge to raise funds for HighGround.
An avid cyclist, Simon along with three friends will cycle the length of the Western Front in early July.  The route goes from from Basel on the Swiss/French border to Calais, totalling over 1100 Km in a week!
HighGround provides horticultural therapy for injured service personnel at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Stanford Hall, and also provides resettlement courses for serving personnel, veterans and reservists who want to work in the land-based sector. HighGround has been helping the Armed Forces since 2012, during which time over 1000 people have attended resettlement courses. At DMRC, since 2022 over 500 individual patients have benefited from horticultural therapy.
To continue to provide these services we need to raise £400,000 each year so every little helps.
Please donate and/or redistribute this fundraising page as widely as possible.