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 507

Serving ex service personnel nationwide

Region: Armed Forces

Summer Group

Group 507 is a national Group within the Armed Forces Region taking Wounded, Injured and Sick service Veterans for an 8-night stay at Hosanna House for the Group's Annual Pilgrimage to Lourdes.

The Group travels in May and alongside the uniqueness of having no regional base it is also unique as the only HCPT Group that joins in the International Military Pilgrimage (IMP) weekend. This is a weekend of spectacular military colour and music as 20,000 service personnel from 20 plus nations, parade in their uniforms with their national flags and bands playing as they gather in a Pilgrimage of Prayer and Peace. (International Military Pilgrimage – Le Pèlerinage Militaire International)

At the conclusion of the IMP the Group continues with its own programme including elements relevant to military personnel, serving and veterans alike.

The Group is friendly and welcome sharing in the camaraderie of military service. It encourages personnel from the military community, serving and retired, to join in the Pilgrimage as a Helper to offer assistance and support to the disabled Veterans.

Whether you are a Veteran with a disability or a Helper joining the Group it will, we hope, be an enriching Pilgrimage for you whilst also having an enjoyable time in the company of kindred spirits.

Group Leader: Brendan

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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.

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