For A Few Dollars More Tour – the 1000 mile cycling challenge of 2024,

in memory of Gary Grindal, raising much needed funds for the Garden

House Hospice, based in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire.

Gary lost his battle with cancer in 2022. Gary played a huge part in

the local community, serving as local councillor, chairman of the local

housing association ... Gary, his wife Tracey, sons Jordan, Christian &

Rhys and wider family were supported through their most difficult times

by the unwavering staff of the Garden House Hospice.

Gary’s support for the community and local charities was tireless,

often combining his love of Mod music with charity events, such as the

very popular "March of the Mods".

On the 2nd anniversary of Gary’s passing the charity baton is being

passed to his son Jordan, Brother-in-law Les Stanton and family friend

James Hare as they prepare to embark on a 1000 mile self-guided cycling

challenge to raise money for the Garden House Hospice (GHH) in

Letchworth Garden City.

GHH provides free specialist palliative care for patients, families and

carers facing life limiting illnesses from across North Hertfordshire,

Stevenage and towns and villages in Central Bedfordshire and

Cambridgeshire, serving a population of around 260,000 people.

Costing over £6.5m a year to provide these services, GHH need to raise

£9,700 every day in charitable income and greatly rely on the support

of the community - local businesses, groups and individuals to help

fund their work.

In the last year GHH answered 239 advice line calls, made 6,710 home

visits and ran 4,342 rehab and wellbeing activities.

For A Few Dollars More Tour aims to raise money to support the Garden

House Hospice with their ongoing care provisions and “Our New Chapter”

as the Hospice launches its innovative new Frailty Service in 2024.

Garden.

Starting from the London Stadium, For A Few Dollars More Tour weaves

it’s way through eastern France and finishes at the Sad Hill Cemetery

in central Spain, taking in the imposing Pyrennes mountains on the way,

and with only 9 days to cycle the route the trio will need to be

cycling over 100 miles a day.

A strange route? we hear you say, well Gary made many trips to the

London Stadium, some more joyous than others! as a lifelong supporter

of his beloved West Ham United. As for Sad Hill Cemetery, well that

reflects Gary’s love of spaghetti western films, with Jordan recalling

many a Sunday evening sat watching the films on repeat. Sad Hill

Cemetery appears in the finale of Sergio Leones famous spaghetti

western “dollars” trilogy, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, in fact Gary

was such a fan that in 2021 he made a donation to the renovation of the

cemetery film set, which had been abandoned since the filming, in

return Gary's name was added to one of the film set tomb stones

displayed there. Unfortunately Gary’s fight with Cancer meant he never

got the chance to visit the site once the restoration work was

completed.

It will be the mission of the Few Dollars More Tour to reach the

cemetery, see the renovation work and to find Gary’s tombstone.