The Accumulator Challenge: Your team, our hospice, one epic challenge
Could your team turn £50 into a game-changing fundraiser?
We’re challenging you and your team to join Rowcroft Hospice’s Accumulator Challenge – a fun, feel-good, team-building opportunity that turns entrepreneurial thinking into vital care for local people living with life-limiting illnesses.
We’ll loan you £50 – and you use it to raise as much money as possible for Rowcroft. You’ll have between 1 July and 31 October 2025 to grow your £50 and climb our Accumulator Leaderboard, competing with 19 other teams from across South Devon. At the end of the challenge, the team that’s raised the most money will be crowned our Accumulator Champions!
Whether you’re selling the world’s best brownies, organising a car wash, or hosting a comedy night, quiz, football tournament or fashion evening – the sky’s the limit! Go wild. Go big. And most of all, have fun!
Get in touch
Please call Lisa Whittaker on 01803 217628 or email lisa.whittaker@rowcrofthospice.org.uk to discuss how you can get involved.
Why get involved?
This is a brilliant opportunity to bring colleagues together, boost morale, inject energy, build connections and have some fun!
Whether you work for a small start-up or a large organisation, you and your team will shine brightly for your local hospice while making a real difference for people who need us most.
We’ve got your back
We won’t leave you staring blankly at your £50 wondering what to do next! We’ll be on hand throughout the challenge with plenty of ideas, encouragement and lots of fundraising inspiration (including our trusty A to Z of ideas to get those creative juices flowing).
Are you in?
This is your team’s moment to get competitive, get innovative and raise vital funds to care for local patients. Sign up today, or to find out more, please get in touch with Rowcroft’s Corporate Fundraiser Lisa Whittaker at: lisa.whittaker@rowcrofthospice.org.uk
How your support makes a difference
Your support through the Accumulator Challenge will help to care for people living with life-limiting illnesses across South Devon.
People like Gareth Wynn – who was cared for by the hospice before he passed away in Rowcroft’s Inpatient Unit in February 2024, aged 39.
Gareth was deeply committed to his family and was known throughout Torbay as a local DJ. Following a cancer diagnosis and with his health fast-declining, Gareth saw his life expectancy rapidly shorten from years to months to days – all within just a few weeks. This was a heartbreaking reality that was incredibly difficult for his family and friends to come to terms with, but Rowcroft’s care helped to make those final days easier to navigate.
Gareth’s sister, Nicola, remembers the immediate comfort that Rowcroft’s staff provided upon arriving at the hospice: “It was such a difference from day one when he arrived. His journey hadn’t been the most comfortable and after a quick conversation, a haircut, a shave and a change of clothes, Gareth was back. My brother was back.
“The staff helped us too, because we wouldn’t have got through without them. They helped us to help him and nurse him, and we were able to stay overnight – and that was all really important to us.
“Late into the night, the night he died, we were listening to music and he was surrounded by us and the staff, who had such an empathetic way of explaining what was happening and why.”
What your team’s fundraising will buy
- £100 could pay for a week’s fuel, enabling one of our Hospice at Home nurses to travel far and wide across South Devon, visiting patients at home to provide care and support in their last two weeks of life.
- £200 could pay for six hours of support from one of Rowcroft’s community nurses, as they deliver pain relief and other specialist care to patients at home.
- £350 could fund an education course to train multiple health and social care professionals across South Devon, equipping them with essential skills in compassionate end-of-life care.
- £500 could pay for 18 hours of care for a patient with complex needs in Rowcroft’s specialist Inpatient Unit.
- £1,100 could enable our Community Team to provide personalised, compassionate support for a patient throughout their journey, ensuring they receive essential care and guidance in the comfort of their own home.
- £1,850 could fund the care of a patient being supported by Rowcroft’s Hospice at Home service, enabling them to spend their final days in the comfort and peace of their own home, surrounded by loved ones.
