By Saul Cooke-Black

FORMER Wycliffe College student Rob Camm is raising money for the charities which helped him recover after he was involved in a car accident.

Mr Camm, 21, who suffered a C3 spinal injury and is now paralysed from the neck down, will be attending the Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe Park, Hampton Fields in Minchinhampton, from Friday August 7 to Sunday August 9.

He is sharing a trade stand with the charity SpecialEffect, which helped him recover.

Gillian Camm, Rob's mother, said: "Rob is passionate about fund raising for charity.

"He feels that he has been lucky to have so much support.

"In the spinal unit he saw people who had no support and he knows how much he has benefitted from the charities he is supporting at the festival."

On Friday August 7 the brave youngster will be speaking at a lunch hosted in aid of the Spinal Injuries Association after he won the charity's Rebuilding Lives Award in the under-21 category in June.

Following his accident in September 2013, Rob was treated at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol where he lay on his back for 109 days.

His time in intensive care was made easier by the use of an eye-gaze system, loaned by SpecialEffect through its StarGaze project which enabled him to play chess and draughts, as well as catch up with his friends on Facebook.

Rob's recovery has seen him become one of the first tetraplegics to walk in a robotic suit.

His next challenge for charity is the Tough Mudder mud run in Cirencester Park on August 22-23 which he will take on in his Extreme X8 all terrain wheelchair.

SpecialEffect will be demonstrating eye-gaze technology on its stand at the event, as well as showing videos of Rob as he prepares for his Tough Mudder challenge.

To find out more about Rob and his fundraising campaigns visit www.cammpaign4rob.co.uk/.