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Star Shine Night Walk

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Star Shine Night Walk 2024. With over 400 of you setting the streets of Cambridge aglow, it was an incredibly special event. 

We are excited to announce that Star Shine 2025 will be taking place on Saturday 21 June 2025. 

Early-bird registrations are OPEN. Adults are £14 and children (aged 10 and over) are £7.40. Register by 30 April 2025 to get these prices! 

There will be a 10- and 5-mile route available, starting at finishing at Shelford Rugby Club.

As the sun sets on the longest day of the year, it’s a special way to remember and celebrate loved ones while raising funds for hospice care.

Join us for 2025

Get your walking shoes ready and join us for this special event to set the city aglow in memory of your loved ones.

The walk is taking place on Saturday 21 June 2025 and we can’t wait to see you there!

Group of men and boys on a bridge, wearing green tshirts and waving their arms in the air.

Join hundreds of walkers who come together, alongside their friends, families and colleagues, to raise money for hospice care in Cambridgeshire.

Four ladies standing with their backs to the camera. They are wearing green tshirts and have in memory labels on their backs.

You can choose from the more challenging 10-mile route which will take you all the way into Cambridge and back, or the slightly easier 5-miler which will be a more localised tree-lined route.

Lady on the route in an electric wheelchair wearing green tshirt and multicoloured wig on hair. Alongside her is a lady walking, wearing green tshirt and multicoloured wig in hair.

As you meander through the beautiful streets of Cambridge, you’ll know that every step you take will be helping support someone going through a tough time.

Take a listen to Gina Thomas, Events & Challenges Manager and Lisa Philbrick, Events Officer, explaining more to Gavin Richards at Cambridge 105.

FAQ

Where and when is the walk?

The walk will be taking place on Saturday 21 June 2025, starting and ending at Shelford Rugby Club. There will be two wave start times this year, the first at 7pm and the second at 7.15pm. This is so we can slow the flow of people leaving the Rugby Club at once. 

The 10-mile ‘challenge’ route will take you on a stunning through Cambridge where you’ll pass some of the iconic landmarks it has to offer before you make your way back to venue.

The shorter 5 mile route will be a more localised route taking in some lovely tree lined streets along the way.

Super early-bird fees (up to and including 31 July 2024)

Adult (ages 16 years and over)- £10
Child (ages 10-15 years) – £5

Early-bird fees (1 August 2024 – 30 April 2025)

Adult (ages 16 years and over)- £14
Child (ages 10-15 years) – £7.60

Standard fees (1 May – 20 June 2025)

Adult (age 16 years and over) – £17.50 
Child (ages 10-15 years) – £9.50

On the day fee 

Adult (age 16 years and over) – £20
Child (ages 10-15 years) – £10

As part of signing up for the walk, you will receive a technical t-shirt, a keepsake to take home with you, along with a hot drink and biscuits upon your return.

Yes, absolutely! Children between 10 – 15 years of age are welcome to register alongside a paying adult. 

There’s no dress code, we simply recommend wearing whatever you find comfortable to walk in. Each participant will receive their very own Star Shine t-shirt on the night and we very much encourage anything bright and wacky that will help set the City aglow!

The walk will go ahead come rain or shine, so do keep an eye on the forecast in the lead up to the event and come weather ready! 

We always like to set a challenge to ourselves, so this year we have a very ambitious target of £50,000. With your help, we are sure that we can smash that goal and make a huge difference to the lives of so many cared for by the Charity!

We’d love to see 500 participants setting the city aglow this year, so sign up now to be one of them!

All volunteers are enormously appreciated and help us to make the evening a success. Please get in contact with the Fundraising Team by emailing fundraising@arhc.org.uk or telephone 01223 675888 if you’d like to lend a hand.

You absolutely can! We welcome all well-behaved four legged friends on a lead who wish to join the walk with their owners! Dogs must remain outside at all times and please do make sure you pick up any toileting they do on route.

We know it can sometimes be a bit daunting asking others for sponsorship and therefore fundraising is not compulsory, but is certainly encouraged. Any funds that you do raise will go towards helping someone going through a very tough time in their life.

We hope that you’ll be able to take part in either the 10 or 5-mile route, however, if you feel that those are unmanageable distances at this time and still want to be there on the night to show your support, then get in contact with fundraising@arhc.org.uk to volunteer to help out and marshal! 

We will confirm parking information shortly. We do recommend car sharing where you can. 

Yes, please let one of the team know on the night and we will match you with someone else. 

Star Shine Stars

I was blown away from start to finish by the passion, support and kindness from everyone involved, and the tea and biscuits were so very welcome and a lovely touch at the finish.

I am still buzzing now and am so proud to have got my very first medal, and will wear my t-shirt with pride whenever I go out walking“.

2024 Participant 

Group of people wearing green tshirts, huddled tigether in celebratory photo. The darkness of the sky behind them illuminates the image of them.

In 2024, 400+ people took part, an amazing group of volunteers, countless friends and family who sponsored people taking part, along with our wonderful sponsors and media partners. It was a wonderful, memorable evening that fundraising is still coming in from to support people in Cambridgeshire living with an advanced serious illness or other life-limiting condition and those who need end of life care. You can help to make 2025 even bigger. 

Group of females outside in a group wearing bright green

A team from Waitrose Trumpington joined us in 2024 to help set the City aglow.

Lynette Innocenti saw one of the Star Shine Night Walk flyers and said:

“As a branch we have not done anything like this before (individually maybe, but not as a team). A couple of us saw the Star Shine flyer that had been dropped off in the Trumpington branch and thought it would be a great way to raise money for a wonderful cause and it would be something we could do as a team. I decided to create a sign up sheet in the branch hoping that other partners would join me.””

You can view the photos from the 2024 event here. 

Star Shine Sponsors Hamberley, Star Radio and Shelford Rugby Club

Thank you to our 2024 sponsors

We would like to extend a huge thank you to our event sponsor, Hamberley Care Homes, Cambridge Grove Care Home, our venue partner, Shelford Rugby Club, and our media partner, Star Radio.

Group of men in high vis vests smiling at the camera with volunteer lanyards round their necks

Want to volunteer?

If you are able to help out for a few hours on Saturday 21 June 2025, we would love to hear from you. You can email events@arhc.org.uk or telephone 01223 675888. We couldn’t run our events without the help of our invaluable volunteers. 

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