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Founder & Main Sponsor

Levy associates

In Aid of

Grove House

Media Partners

  • Herts advertiser
  • Hertfordshire Life
  • BBC THREE COUNTIES RADIO

  • Event Hosts

  • rohthamsted Research
  • Harpenden Town Council
  • St Albans City and District

  • Gold Sponsors

  • ThomsonAud m25 logo

Silver Sponsors

  • Sainsburys
  • Saracens logonuffield health
  • Barray Simmons logo
  • Asics

  • Print partners

  • Imacom logo

  • Scaffolding partners

  • Framework logo

  • Race Day Radio Partners

    Mercury Radio

Grove House

All proceeds from the HERTS 10K CHALLENGE will go to Grove House.  Any sponsorship you can raise on behalf of Grove House will be greatly appreciated. 

Grove House buildingGrove House in Waverley Road, St Albans, leads the way in supporting local people living with cancer or life-threatening illness.
Grove House believe everyone who needs it has the right to access specialist care to have the best quality of life.  The hospice supports patients and their families living in the Hemel Hempstead, St Albans and Harpenden areas.
Grove House must fundraise 80% of its total income to continue to provide its wide range of existing services and to develop new ones.  This year Grove House will be launching a brand new service for St Albans to provide 24 hour Hospice at Home care. 

  • Days Hospice
  • Day Hospice
  • Eleanor Andrews
  • Nurses with day hospice patients
  • Pams Book


Grove House is proud to be able to:

  • Support patients with life-threatening illnesses such as motor neurone disease or chronic heart disease as well as cancer.
  • Help cancer patients right from the time of diagnosis (or even pre-diagnosis) through to the end-stage of illness. 
  • Be there for the patient’s family and friends, providing respite, therapies and counselling.  Supporting them at a time they may feel overwhelmed and anxious.
  • Support patients to live as full a life as possible, where they want to be - at home.

Please see www.grove-house.org.uk for more information.

How your sponsorship can make a difference

£17 will fund an hour of spiritual care.  Our Spiritual Care Lead can talk through spiritual issues with people of all faiths, cultures and traditions. 

£37 will fund an hour’s session with our play therapist.  Individual counselling is organised for children to help cope with distress or grief. 

£67 will fund an hour of all nursing care in our Day Hospice.  The Robert Runcie Day Hospice provides a multi-professional team to support 16 patients per day, each receiving an individual programme of care to meet their particular needs. 

£85 will fund a nurse for a day at Grove House, providing professional and loving care to 16 patients each day.

£109 will fund a day of Cancer i, our confidential information and support service provides advice on a drop-in basis, to help patients, families and carers get the right information at each stage of illness.

£424 will fund all complimentary therapies at Grove House for a week.  This includes yoga, relaxation and art.  Complimentary therapies are available to patients and their families to help them to relax, enabling them to cope better with anxiety, depression and pain. 

£500 will fund a day of nursing care in our Day Hospice for 16 patients. 

£2500 will fund a week of nursing care in our Day Hospice for 64 patients.

£6,350 will fund an 8 week “Cancer the Next Step Course” for 15 people.   A valuable program for people up to 18months after diagnosis, helping patients through the physical and emotional effects of cancer in order to resume as near normal life as possible.