Date: Saturday 16 May 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 two 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 2:

0945: Meet at St Mary’s Hospital Praed St, Paddington
1000: Leave St Mary’s Hospital and walk to UCH perhaps past the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and visit the RCP Garden of medicinal plants. Distance 2.0 miles. Anticipated time 45 minutes.
1045: Arrive at University College Hospital (UCH). Pause for updates about UCH (15 minutes).
1100: Leave UCH and walk to the Fitzrovia Chapel part of the old Middlesex Hospital. Distance 0.6 miles. Anticipated time 15 minutes.
1115: Arrive at the Fitzrovia Chapel, visit the chapel (visit takes around 20 minutes).
1135: Leave Fitzrovia Chapel and walk to Brunswick Square passing the UCL School of Pharmacy (formerly the School of Pharmacy, University of London). Distance 1.2 miles. Anticipated time 30 minutes. Short talk about the school (15 minutes).
1220: Leave UCL School of Pharmacy and walk to Gray’s Inn Road, stopping at the site of the old Royal Free Hospital before proceeding to St Bartholomew’s Hospital with a visit to the church of Bartholomew the Great and the tomb of Rahere founder of Bart’s Hospital, then a visit tour to the restored Great Hall (Master to discuss a site visit).
1255: Arrive at St Bart’s Hospital. Lunch break at Barts, depending on the visits, leave at around 1410.

NB: Distance from Brunswick Square to St Bartholomew’s Hospital is 1.5 miles (35 minute walk)

1410: Leave St Bart’s Hospital and walk to Tower Hamlets Town Hall. Distance 2.9 miles. Anticipated time 60 minutes.
1510: Arrive at Tower Hamlets Town Hall. Visit to the preserved parts of the old hospital now incorporated into the Town Hall.
1545: Leave Tower Hamlets with option to return to Hall for a final drink at the Glean. Distance 1.7 miles. Anticipated time 35 minutes.
1630: Arrive back to the Hall and final drink at the Glean.

Total distance is 9.9 miles