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Pete’s Hospiscare fundraiser - 900 miles in 9.5 days: a big challenge for an old chap on a steel pushbike

Pete Bishop is raising money for Hospiscare
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a challenging pedal from UK mainland's most southerly hospice at Hayle in Cornwall to the most northerly at Inverness in Scotland. · 18 June 2026

Hospiscare provides free and specialised nursing to the terminally ill in Exeter, Mid and East Devon. It looks after more than 700 patients at any one time, supporting patients in their own homes and in its hospice. It relies on the generosity of the community to provide this vital service.

Story

At some time in life almost all of us become aware, via friends and loved ones, of just how important hospices are. I had direct experience of this when my mum, Sylvia Moore, came under the amazing care of Exeter Hospiscare last December, after a very difficult and painful year. They not only enabled her to die without pain, and with dignity, but they looked after us too. They enabled us to cope. When I found out that over 80% of Hospiscare’s required financial resources come from people fundraising I knew I had to help. Mum was always out and about on her bike in her active life, until that last year, so a challenging bike journey from the UK mainland’s most southerly to the most northerly hospice is fitting. I'll be unsupported; just me, my bike and a saddlebag. I hope you will sponsor me. You can see my route if you click on 'Read Story' below.

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