Star Supporters 

Alison Page and her team at the two local Living magazines regularly feature news, events and volunteering opportunities on behalf of Rennie Grove, helping to raise our profile across Berkhamsted and Tring. They do this at no cost to the charity and we're very grateful for their help.

Publishing company In the Book saw World Book Day 2020 as a great opportunity to give something back by donating a personalised children’s book to 30 of the children looked after by ​our children's nurses. Thank you to the whole team for your treasured contribution and for coming to visit us at our office!

A huge thank you goes to Steve Toms for his amazing achievements as our golf ambassador. Steve has organised five incredible ‘Tomsie’s Golf Days’ raising over £80,000 to fund Rennie Grove nurses to bring care to local patients and support for their families. Photo: Neil Marshment.

For more than 10 years, the team at the Herts Advertiser has been proud supporters both ​of the services we provide at Grove House and those delivered in patients’ homes. In addition to a dedicated weekly page in every edition of the newspaper, the Herts Advertiser provides additional coverage of our major events including The Herts 10K, the Question of Sport Charity Dinner and the Rudolph Run. Thank you so much for helping us spread the word about the care we provide to local patients and their families.

Harpenden-based Kings were at Grove House in St Albans to donate £750, which they raised at a concert staged with the Company of Ten’s musicians, actors and comedians at the Abbey Theatre. The Kings’ generosity would fund 16 visits by Hospice at Home nurses to individual patients in the St Albans and Harpenden areas.

Helen and her team at Hiya Bucks frequently dedicate space to Rennie Grove fundrasing events and volunteering opportunites in both editions of their monthly magazine reaching a wide audience across Buckinghamshire. This is done free of charge. Thank you Helen for your amazing support.

Emily Howlett supported Rennie Grove with coffee mornings in 2018 & 2019 in memory of her mother in law, Karen Howlett. When covid hit Emily turned her fundraising to Handmade Arts & Crafts and created a page on Facebook. Most of the crafts have been created by her children aged 6 and 9 in support of the care their Grandmother received from Rennie Grove Hospice Care. Together they have made items from Christmassy and Halloween crafts such as hot chocolate cones, to tea lights and bird feeders. Thank you Emily and her children for their ongoing support and raising £750.

We are thrilled to introduce our newest corporate patron Hollywell Building Services, who are supporting us as Diamond Patrons.

Thank you so much Bob, Charlotte & the team for supporting Rennie Grove.  

The Corporate Patron Programme currently covers the cost of one & a half specialist hospice at home nurses & we would love for it to cost the cover of 2.  
If your company would be like to join the programme and support us on 1 of the 4 levels, please contact corporate@renniegrove.org
For more information about our corporate patron programme here.

A collection of cricketing Dads from Garden Fields Cricket Club, known as Men of Fields, tackled the famous Ridgeway. They walked 85 miles across four days and have raised over £25,000 for Rennie Grove and The Hospice of St Francis.

Thanks to AVI Support for supplying and fitting the new office furniture in the fundraising and nursing offices in our Tring base, Rennie House. The new furniture means that we have more space to accommodate the team, including our new nursing team who will be caring for patients in central Bucks.

We are thrilled to announce that Rennie Grove has received a very generous grant of £64,955 from The National Lottery Community Fund to expand our service Supporting Hands. This volunteer-led service provides practical support and companionship to patients with a life-limiting illness and their families. The continuation of this service has been made possible by players of the National Lottery, and will benefit hundreds of people in the year ahead. 

We would like to thank the Rank Foundation for a £15,000 grant award in 2019, to enable the launch of a Horticultural Therapy programme at Grove House. The project includes the building of a new greenhouse and the provision of volunteer-led planting and propagation workshops to enhance patients’ health and wellbeing. This award was made as part of a grant programme managed by Hospice UK.

Thanks to Cassidy & Tate who will donate back 50% of their fee to Rennie Grove when any member of staff, volunteer or supporter sells their house through their estate agents.  To date we have benefited from the sale of two houses under this scheme with the third currently on the market.  (To find out more about this generous offer please call the fundraising team on 01442 820731)

Thanks to VRS who provide us with two lease cars every six months – one for our Bucks nurses and one for the fundraising team.  This means we not have the peace of mind thanks to having a reliable car to use, but it also saves the charity money.  In addition to this fantastic support the team at VRS fundaise for Rennie Grove throughout the year. Since 2015 their support has totalled an incredible £27.081.70

Peter Thomas, Charity Steward Representative for the Masonic Provincial Grand Lodge visited Rennie House in February 2019 to present at cheque for £800 from the Masonic Charitable Foundation. This generous gift will help us to continue providing excellent hospice at home care to patients with life-limiting illnesses in Herts and Bucks.

The team of volunteers at the Magistrates Tea Bar have been serving refreshments in St Albans for the last 12 years. They have raised an astonishing £126,230.09 in that time. Thank you to everybody who helps run the tea bar and keep regular donations coming through to Rennie Grove.

Ukulele group Katie's Jumping Fleas have supported Rennie Grove since 2013. The band raises money for us through playing gigs locally. They also come to Grove House, our Day Hospice, twice a year to perform to our patients! Thank you for all your support and raising an amazing £7,741.55 for us!