Rennie Grove Peace is a registered charity providing free, specialist care and support for adults and children with a life-limiting illness in Herts and Bucks. We support and empower people from diagnosis to live the best quality of life possible. Whether it’s a life-limiting condition or a terminal illness, Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care can support people of all ages through our work in the community, in the home and at our Inpatient Unit. We offer practical, specialist and emotional support for the whole family to help families spend quality time together when every moment matters.

In 2023, whilst based out with a community nursing team on placement as a student nurse, I got to see first-hand the support that Rennie Grove Peace offers with their hospice at home service. I met the most incredible family, who we were supporting alongside the charity. Having provided palliative care for people at the end of their life in hospital, I value how important the work that Rennie Grove Peace does. I am not fundraising for anyone in particular, but for everyone I have cared for in hospital, who perhaps had they been given the choice, would have chosen to spend their last moments at home or in a hospice but not amongst the chaos of the wards. Fundraising to help give that opportunity to more, seems like a fitting tribute to those remarkable people I have met along my journey to become a nurse.

I have never travelled alone or challenged myself to something so far away from my family so this is a big adventure for me. Also, to anyone else out there who has been training to become a nurse, and might be feeling the same as me, will understand the need to give back some time to myself. I have always wanted to travel to Vietnam too (I’m not going to lie, the film A Tourist’s Guide to Love did make it look like a truly beautiful country to see!) and underlying it all, I would love to gain back the confidence I lost in myself to achieve anything after undergoing a total hip replacement in 2021. So please support this absolutely amazing cause and me, every donation will mean so much!

£10 could fund 20 minutes of specialist care.

£20 could pay for an end-of-life care box. This holds the equipment the nurses need to care for patients at the end of their life.

£30 could pay for an hour of specialist care from a hospice at home nurse.

£50 could pay for a blood pressure monitor for adults.

£85 could pay for a blood pressure monitor for children, which means the children's nurses can check in a change in their condition.

£150 could cover a day of care from a healthcare assistant (HCA). HCAs visit patients to support them with practical care and help them live as independently as possible at home.

£225 could fund a specialist hospice at home nurse for a day, preventing hospital admissions and keeping families at home.

£811 could pay for the night team for one night, to allow night nurses to visit when needed throughout the night, a lifeline for so many families.

If you're feeling super generous:

£1125 could fund a complimentary therapist for a week providing wellbeing treatments for patients and carers.

£1,185 could pay for a syringe pump driver to administer drugs to keep patients comfortable and pain free. This is a necessity to allow patients the choice die at home away from hospitals.