by Kyle Molyneux | Mon 09 Dec 2019
JCB supports armed forces
JCB is supporting the new Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) Programme on the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate (SHRE) in the East Midlands.
The Black Stork Charity, which runs the DNRC Programme, has taken delivery of a multi-tasking JCB 1CXT tracked backhoe loader, together with a range of JCB attachments, to carry out vital maintenance work on the SHRE in Nottinghamshire, near Loughborough. The 360-acre estate plays a significant part in the overall rehabilitation process. Patients have a right to roam across the estate for recreational purposes including fishing in the lake and, importantly, to use the 5km trim trail, the handcycle tracks and the pitch and putt course, as part of their treatment.
The tracked backhoe loader, which retails at almost £55,000, is now in regular use across the estate. Work is also under way to prepare part of the site for the National Rehabilitation Centre, a new facility for the NHS. The gift follows an earlier donation by JCB of £2 million towards construction of the Defence element of the programme, which opened its doors in October 2018 as a centre of clinical excellence for injured Service personnel, replacing Headley Court in Surrey.
JCB’s support for the DNRC Programme came about following a conversation in 2013 between JCB Chairman Lord Bamford and Gerald Grosvenor, the late Duke of Westminster.
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