Thank You for supporting Team HikerGrove.... 

The business of training is on the agenda for an intrepid team of fundraisers supporting a cancer care centre in the North East. 

Nicola Short, Jessica Williams, Jeff Jamison and Nick Hart  will be cycling 31 miles followed by a 41 mile hike in the Scottish Highlands in aid of the Maggie's centre in Newcastle.

Maggie's cancer care centre welcomes visitors who are affected by cancer, whether they themselves have been diagnosed or a close family member or friend. A diagnosis of cancer can have a devastating effect on people's lives, the Maggies centre support and advise on topics from treatment to benefits. The centre's focus is upon making changes that will improve the physical and mental well being of patients. 

The centre opened on the Freeman Hospital site in May last year and has already welcomed more than 10,000 visitors, primarily patients of all ages and at all stages of their cancer journey and their families.

The Forum has links with Maggie's through its vice chair Lorna Moran OBE, who is also chairman of the centre's associate board

Maggie's was started by Maggie Keswick Jencks, who died in July 1995 after her third diagnosis of cancer, and has grown into a nationwide network of 17 caring centres.

 The Entrepreneurs' Forum's Hiker Grove team, as they are known, will join teams from around the country in the overnight challenge which starts on May 3.