There are over 230 groups (branches) of HCPT. Most are around the UK but some are based around the world! Use the feature above to find local groups nearest your UK postcode or town / city.
Whatever your age, health or location, there might be an HCPT group for you, including groups serving Royal Navy, Army, and Royal Air Force communities. See below the listing for more information about them and HCPT's international family.
HCPT Group 182
Serving the Army community
Region: Armed Forces
Easter Group
We are an HCPT Easter pilgrimage group taking disabled and disadvantaged children to Lourdes. Children are usually Service dependents, from the wider Ministry of Defence community or affiliated through local schools. Helpers are predominantly British Army personnel and provide care on a minimum of one to one basis; children requiring more assistance have a higher ratio of helpers to look after them.
Group Leader: Annmarie
The international HCPT family:
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Croatia: DUH (Dječja Udruga Hrabrost)
- Ireland: Rise and Shine, serving the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
- Italy
- Poland: centred around Krakow
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Spain (students from Cambridge House College, Valencia)
- Switzerland
- USA: ASCPG (American Special Children's Pilgrimage Group)
- West Indies
We also have HCPT groups serving:
- Disabled and disadvantaged adults who wish to join HCPT's Easter pilgrimage ("Jet Set").
- The Armed Forces communities: Royal Navy – Groups 150 and 186 (both Easter); Army – Group 182 (Easter); Royal Air Force – Group 187 (Easter), Joint Services Group 360 (Easter Jet Set) and Group 720 (Easter Service Support). There is also a Joint Armed Forces Summer group, 507, which joins the International Military Pilgrimage in May.
- Lourdes "Hospitalité" volunteers from the UK.
- Retired and able bodied adults who wish to join HCPT's Easter pilgrimage ("Old and Bold") – in Merseyside and Surrey.