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Local GP takes to the hills to support local hospice charity
Berkhamsted GP Sarah Evans is preparing to take to the hills to support a local hospice charity that cares for her patients. Sarah, who lives in Tring, will be walking the Chilterns 3 Peaks Challenge on Sunday 18 September to raise money for newly merged charity Iain Rennie Grove House Hospice Care (IRGH). This annual charity walk begins in Princes Risborough and follows the last 18 miles of the famous Ridgeway trail, taking in the peaks of Whiteleaf Cross, Coombe Hill and Ivinghoe Beacon.
Sarah will be accompanied by her husband David, daughter Xanthe and the family's King Charles Spaniel cross, Em, on her 9 mile walk through the beautiful Chilterns countryside. This will not be the first time that Sarah, Xanthe and Em have taken part in the Chilterns 3 Peaks Challenge as the three of them walked the very first Challenge in 2009. This time they are making it a real family occasion to help them adjust as Sarah's elder daughter leaves home to go to university.
"We all enjoy walking in the Chilterns and sponsored walks for hospice care are part of David's family culture as a result of the care his first wife, Jane, received from a hospice at home service in London. As a GP I have so much respect for the work of the Iain Rennie nurses with my own patients in Berkhamsted and I would always support and join in with their fundraising efforts. Plus to me the hospice is part of living in Tring. Iain Rennie Hospice at Home is very good at organising local community-enriching events like this one and the Midsummer Fun Run and even the Iain Rennie shops have a big place in Tring life. Xanthe often volunteers in the shops so the walk is part of her belonging to Iain Rennie too."
For Sarah there is now an extra reason to support the event as she is also a staunch supporter of Grove House:
"Grove House is a hugely important resource for my patients. With ever reducing counselling of any kind available within the NHS and the steady decline of other voluntary organisations, Grove House is in particular a huge support for people who are dealing with bereavement. Despite the extensive experience of bereavement that I have had through my job, when my first husband Jonathan died in 2005 I discovered for myself how bereavement telescopes down your world from the inside. We would never have traversed the waves of grief and the self-absorption without the bereavement support we had. So on many different levels we are pleased to be taking part in the walk and supporting the vital work of Iain Rennie Grove House Hospice Care."
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