Palma 2024

Seth started shooting in 2008 at Cheltenham College. During Ashburtons, Athelings and early tours, he found he particularly enjoyed the wind coaching side of team matches. As a result he has gone on to coach his county, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Rutland, as well as England in the National and Mackinnon, and GB in Canada and South Africa. This will be his ninth overseas tour having been fortunate enough to tour with cadet teams, GB U25s and GB.

He attended the last two World Championships in the USA and New Zealand as an U25 and is thrilled to be going this time with the Palma team. He is looking forward to catching up with overseas friends and building on foundations from the 2023 tour.

Away from the ranges, Seth works as an investment adviser for charities, corporates, and private clients and keeps fit with running, hiking and squash.

This will be Toby’s 10th GB tour, for which he is as excited to participate in as he was in his first. Toby first toured to Canada before successful tours with GB to America, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. He has also participated in very many Mackinnon, National and Kolapore matches, proudly captaining the latter to a tense win in 2019.

South Africa holds particularly fond memories after winning the SA Open in 2017. Toby is very much looking forward to strong competition and excellent steak.

When not on the ranges, Toby is the CEO for Wealth Management firm Shard Capital. He spends the rest of his time balancing keeping fit, watching his sons participate in numerous sporting activities and sharing taxi duties with his wife, Melanie. Toby is very grateful for Melanie’s (& others) support to enable him to be in SA.

Jon started his shooting career at Epsom College in 1999, qualifying for the final of the H.M. Queen’s Prize during his second Imperial Meeting the following year. Individual highlights include winning the 2022 Palma and Stickledown Aggregates at Bisley.

Jon’s previous overseas tours include Australia and Canada with the Great Britain U25s and the 2011 GB team to Canada and 2023 GB team to South Africa. He has been a member of the winning teams in both the Under 21 and Under 25 World Championships matches, in 2003 and 2007 respectively. This will be Jon’s third shooting tour to South Africa and he is thrilled to be returning to Bloemfontein again to represent GB on his first Palma tour.

When not shooting Jon can be found running his company, intheOffice. In his spare time he loves travelling with his wife and cycling.