HCPT announces new Chief Executive

Tricia Macfarlane

Lourdes pilgrimage charity HCPT has announced Tricia Macfarlane as its new Chief Executive.

Tricia joins HCPT from Impact Funding Partners, a Scottish fund management charity, where she was Chief Executive. She has held leadership roles in Scottish and UK national charities for 16 years. Tricia is a Clore Social Leadership Fellow, strategic advisor to local and national government departments and is an experienced trustee of national and grassroots organisations.

Chair Emma Derby, said: "I'm delighted that Tricia is joining HCPT in the run up to our 70th anniversary in 2026. Tricia will build on our successes to date and will develop the organisation further in order to continue to deliver our mission to enable those who may need help to experience the joy and friendship of pilgrimage".

Tricia will start her new role on 28 October 2024.

HCPT is a volunteer-based UK charity founded in 1956 in response to Our Lady's invitation to go on pilgrimage to Lourdes. Its aim is to enable those who may need help, especially the young, to experience pilgrimage, and they do that in small caring groups, seeking to share, with joy, the gift of God's love. Every Easter HCPT travels to Lourdes on pilgrimage with disabled and disadvantaged children and young people. All the helpers, clergy and nurses who accompany them pay their own fares. In addition, they fundraise throughout the year to allow the children to travel with no expectation of financial contribution from their parents or carers.

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HCPT: www.hcpt.org.uk