Date: Wednesday 22 April 2026
Time: 9.45 am for a 10.00am start
Who can attend: Open to all
Entrance fee: £25
Dress code: Comfortable
Members Portal (LMS): Click here to book
Contact: events@apothecaries.org

Day one walk of the Master’s Fund Inter-Medical School Sponsored Walk

The Master, Dr David Jefferys invites you to take part in a sponsored walk in order to help raise money for the Master’s Fund. The Master’s Fund helps fund financial hardship grants to medical and pharmacy students in their final or penultimate year of study who are struggling financially and at risk of dropping out. Each of the medical schools in England and Wales are invited to nominate students who might be in need. Last year 81 students were awarded financial hardship grants of between £750 and £1,500 and a further 7 students were given emergency grants which together totalled £12,540.

If you’d like to take part in what promises to be a really fun and educational walk, please book yourself in here. If you are not able to take part, please consider sponsoring this event by making a donation via JustGiving no donation is too small to make, all contributions are welcomed: https://www.justgiving.com/page/masters-fund-walk (please remember to leave your name so we can keep track of donations generated).

The programme for Day 1:

0945: Arrival at Kings College Hospital (Denmark Hill), we will meet outside the Hambledon Entrance.
1000: We will walk from Kings College Hospital to Guys Hospital. Distance 2.7 miles. Anticipated time: 60 minutes.
1100: Arrive at the Thomas Guy Statue. A short talk will be given here, with an optional visit to Guys Chapel and the Keats Memorial.
1130: We will walk from Guys Hospital to St Thomas’ Hospital. The month of May will be the 300th Anniversary of the Foundation of Guy’s Hospital. Distance 1.5 miles. Anticipated time: 35 minutes.
1210: Arrive at St Thomas’ Hospital. Possible visit to the Governors Hall and the Nightingale Museum and a short optional lunch stop (the Master to explore the options).
1315: Leave St Thomas’ Hospital and walk past the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, cross Lambeth Bridge, and walk past the site of the Westminster Medical School (possible photo opportunity outside Westminster Coroners Court) then continue to St George’s Hospital site (the Master to explore whether the hotel might welcome us / provide afternoon tea). Distance 1.9 miles. Anticipated time 35 minutes.
1400: Arrive at Hyde Park.
1445: Leave (flexible) to walk to the site of the old Charing Cross Medical School in Agar Road. Distance 1.2 miles. Anticipated time 30 minutes.
1515: Arrive at site of the Old Charing Cross Hospital Medical School. A 15-minute talk about the medical school.
1530: To finish – an optional walk back to the Hall with the Master or disperse from this point. Distance is 1.7 miles. Anticipated time 40 minutes.
1615/1630: Arrive back to the Hall

Total Distance is 9.0 miles (including the optional 1.7 miles at the end if returning to the Hall)