The primary aim of the Cockleshell Endeavour is to raise awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) amongst serving forces personnel and veterans. In March 2017 two veterans, Mick Dawson and Steve Grenham, will be kayaking around the Falkland Islands to do exactly this.

However the Cockleshell Endeavour team is also enthusiastic about supporting PTSD sufferers at a grass roots level too. One half of the team, Steve Grenham, has found that training and participating in kayaking events has improved the symptoms of his PTSD, and it is for that reasons that the Cockleshell Endeavour has evolved and the project will now be supporting other recovering service personnel and veterans though a number of kayaking projects.

The first of these projects is the Devizes to Westminster Race 2017 where the Cockleshell Endeavour project will be entering five pairs, one half of which must be a serving military personnel or veteran who is recovering from serious injury or physical or mental health issues, including PTSD. To read more about the pairs entered into the race as part of the Cockleshell Endeavour team please visit http://www.cockleshellendeavour.com/

The Cockleshell Endeavour is now hoping to raise funds so that it can support more veterans and service personnel with PTSD through kayaking based events such as the Devizes to Westminster race.

At least half of all the money raised through Cockleshell Endeavour's participation in the Devizes to Westminster race will be donated to the Royal Marines Charity.