Drum role please ………..!

Clare Southcombe and Jackie Baybut are peddling more than 400km, from Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam to Angkor Wat in Cambodia, leaving on 2nd November this year!

Cycling for seven days, through two of the worlds most fascinating countries, will be a big test as humidity will be high, and temperatures will be mid-high 30s! But, we're determined to complete this amazing challenge as it's to raise money for our chosen charity, Oakhaven Hospice in Lymington.

Oakhaven Hospice provides specialist palliative care and support to those facing life-limiting illness and their loved ones in both a home and hospice setting. The team of specialist Oakhaven nurses, doctors, counsellors and physiotherapists ease physical symptoms and offer psychological, spiritual and social support. The care is tailored to suit the needs of each individual and, with a blend of expertise and compassion, the team offers support for people when they need it most.

Every year the Hospice needs to raise £6.3 million to provide expert end-of-life care and support to our community. By donating you will make a real difference to people living with a diagnosis, facing death or coming to terms with a bereavement.

Both Clare and Jackie have experienced, first hand, the care that Oakhaven has given to their own friends and family. It really is a special place, an umbrella to shelter under during very difficult times.

We would like to clarify that this challenge has been fully funded by us, every penny you donate will go straight to the hospice.

Hand on heart, this is a massive challenge (honestly we are both more suited to having lunch at The Pig), but we are hoping that, through blood, sweat and tears, to raise as much as we possibly can for this fantastic charity, a charity we are so lucky to have in our community.

£47 is the cost of an hours care in the hospice inpatient unit.


£94 could pay for two counselling sessions.


£126 is the daily cost for a patient to attend day hospice.


£245 is a three hour visit at a patients home from a Clinical Nurse Specialist.

Anything you can so kindly donate, WILL definitely make a difference to a persons' life.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts …..

Clare and Jackie x