On Wednesday 25 October by kind permission of Major General J Swift OBE Colonel of the Regiment, HighGround held a reception at the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum to introduce the Chairman’s new Vision for the Charity and welcome our incoming CEO Jamie Crisp, generously supported by British Forces Resettlement Services.
Read moreOn 7 September 2023, Zizi Mason and Martin Beaney from Supporting Wounded Veterans (SWV) visited HighGround at Bicton College in Devon to meet HighGround’s Founder Anna Baker Cresswell and Chris Shepherd who manages HighGround’s Rural Weeks programme at Bicton College.
Read moreIn March 2023 Supporting Wounded Veterans and HighGround were awarded a three-year grant by the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust from the Transformational funding programme.
Read moreHighGround are thrilled to announce that they have just completed their 17th Virtual Rural Week with record attendance.
Read moreToday we welcome Simon Caraffi as our new Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Read moreABF The Soldiers’ Charity is pleased to award a £20,000 grant to HighGround towards its horticultural therapy programme for injured serving personnel at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC), Stanford Hall, near Loughborough.
Read moreHighGround reached another milestone on Thursday when they were joined at Catterick Garrison by BALI Go-Landscape and Euroforest for a careers fair run by BFRS to raise awareness of the vast number of employment opportunities that exist across the land-based sector.
Read moreHighGround was delighted to receive a substantial grant from the Armed Forces Covenant Trust Fund under their Sustaining Support programme towards salaries of current employees to keep HighGround’s land-based employment service running.
Read moreHighGround successfully delivered their second Virtual Rural Week this week to nine service leavers and veterans
Read moreDue to CV-19, our Spring Rural Weeks programme at Bicton College has been postponed and we hope to restart it at Bicton (subject to Govt advice) on 13th September and run a full Autumn programme.
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Afghanistan support
In light of recent events in Afghanistan, please find information and support resources here
