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On Course Foundation Impact Report 2024-2025

On Course Foundation's Impact Report 2024-2025, published in its 15th anniversary year, shows how the charity uses golf to support the recovery of wounded, injured and sick Service personnel and veterans. Over the season it delivered 83 activities with an overall attendance of 970, reaching 332 different attendees, 84 of them new beneficiaries, plus a winter programme of 15 activities. The report covers its golf skills and employment courses, a first international training week with the Invictus Games Foundation, its employment programme, and Team GB retaining the Simpson Cup at Shinnecock Hills.

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On Course Foundation (registered charity 1136618) was founded at the height of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan to introduce golf into the rehabilitation of injured Service personnel. Its activities focus on restoring self-confidence, reducing isolation, improving physical strength and mental wellbeing, and opening up employment pathways in the golf industry, delivered with PGA coaches at venues across the UK.

Key Metrics

83 golf activities delivered in the 2024 season
332 different veterans and Service personnel attending (970 overall attendances)
72% of beneficiaries' spouses or partners surveyed saw a positive difference in their partner's mental wellbeing

Key Outcomes

  • 6 beneficiaries were placed in paid employment and 6 in voluntary positions, with 27 attending employment insight days.
  • Delivered its first event specifically for veterans from outside the UK, a Golf Skills Training Week with the Invictus Games Foundation in Fife.
  • Team GB retained the Ben Simpson Trophy at the 12th Simpson Cup at Shinnecock Hills.

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UK-Wide

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