Be a legend! 🏉🍻
Save the date and join us for The Big Tackle 2025
Fancy a day filled with laughs with your mates, stunning landscapes, an energising eight-mile walk, a touch of Six Nations Rugby and free beer?! The Big Tackle is the perfect day out – and it’s all for the worthwhile cause of raising vital funds for your local hospice.
Taking place on Saturday 15 March 2025, you’ll enjoy a coastal walk around Torbay (with plenty of watering-holes along the way!)
Complete the form below to register your interest and receive all the latest updates regarding The Big Tackle 2025.
Open to all over the age of eight.
The Big Tackle 2025 - Register your interest
Your support is vital
Last year’s Big Tackle brought together 600 participants who raised over £90,000 for the hospice!
That’s enough to fund around 3,600 hours of care during home visits by Rowcroft nurses as they deliver tailored specialist support to patients and their loved ones across South Devon. This year, we’re hoping to raise even more. Bring it on!
Every penny raised makes such a difference:
£10 – could provide breakfast, lunch and dinner for a patient in our Inpatient Unit, ensuring they receive nutritious hand-cooked meals during their stay.
£15 – could pay for half a day’s travel for our Hospice at Home team, so they can deliver specialist care and support to patients at home in their last two weeks of life.
£30 – could offer crucial support to two bereaved people and provide three bereavement sessions so they are not alone in their grief.
Get involved
Volunteers are massively important to the smooth running of this event and we’re looking for more people to help out as either venue volunteers or course volunteers. We promise to look after all our volunteers with food, snacks, drinks and general positivity as our way of saying thank you… If you’d like to support us as a Big Tackle volunteer, please register here.
For more information, please see our frequently asked questions, terms and conditions, or take a look at our fundraising pack.
Luke's story
“While it was so traumatic to say goodbye to Mum, I’m eternally grateful to Rowcroft for giving Mum the opportunity to be at home with the family one last time,” says Luke from Paignton, whose late Mum Lyndy was cared for by Rowcroft’s Hospice at Home team.
“The Hospice at Home team came to the house day and night, staying with Mum to keep her as comfortable as possible, enabling her to spend her final days in the place where she had lived for 40 years – a home full of happy memories. For my Dad, it meant so much to have Mum at home. He could lie next to her on the bed, and we were all there for her too.
“I’ll be forever thankful that she was surrounded by her family when she passed away. There couldn’t be a better way to die.”
Luke (pictured right) with baby daughter Emilia, mum Lyndy and brother Sam.
Our Sponsors
We’d like to say a massive thank you to the Torquay Rugby Club for hosting our event, and to our fabulous sponsors WBW Solicitors, Torbay Clearance Services and Bays Brewery for supporting The Big Tackle.
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