Fr Damian Cassidy, HCPT’s Trust Chaplain and a member of the charity’s Board of Trustees, will begin a remarkable fundraising challenge on 1 October 2025. He will take on a virtual prayer walk of 1,070 miles, the distance from his parish of St. John Vianney, in Newcastle, to Lourdes in France. The goal of Fr Damian’s Big Prayer Walk is to raise £70,000 to mark the 70th anniversary of HCPT, the charity which takes thousands of children and adults with disabilities and life limiting conditions to Lourdes on life changing pilgrimages each Easter.