Keech Hospice is a registered hospice charity that provides free specialist palliative and end-of-life hospice care for people of all ages. Caring and supporting adults across Bedfordshire and children and their families across Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Milton Keynes with life-limiting conditions. At home, in hospice, or wherever they’re needed.
Keech has been supporting their community for over 30 years - making the difference when it matters most. As a teaching hospice, their exceptional people, training and facilities help their communities to live and die well.
Keech’s support begins as soon as it is needed, whether that is at the point of diagnosis, or when a symptom or support need arises. Keech is there for their patients, their families and loved ones. They raise over 70% of funding through generous donations from their local community and the sale of donated goods in their shops. In addition, the NHS and local authorities make a funding contribution.
https://keech.org.uk/
We had already worked with Keech Hospice back in 2015, when the team at Smartcomm kindly installed a cinema room in an upper storey conference room. As time went on this installation became more and more valuable to Keech as a presentation facility focusing on fundraising, training and care practice, as opposed to a cinema room. Still representing huge value to the team at Keech but not as a family cinema room.
A few years later Keech then contracted a company to create a cinema room in the Teenage Lounge of their centralized inpatient hospice unit (CIPU). This room proved to be very popular but, in time, had some challenges that needed rectifying.
In October 2025 we were contacted by David Rigg, their Buildings Manager, and he asked if we’d be happy to service and refurbish the room and bring it back to life. Of course we were happy to but didn’t want to step on the previous installer’s toes. With us being assured this would not be an issue we agreed and set about pulling the team together to help get their cinema room back to it’s best.
With Keech Hospice being located in Luton, it was important to have an installer that could install easily, but also offer quick and effective post installation servicing as and when required.
GLO AV have always worked over a wide area and have always been huge supporters of Together For Cinema. Having already worked on 3 of our previous installations, Greg Howarth, their MD, was keen to help on another project, and having mentioned this to him he was on board without a seconds hesitation.
A ready, willing and able installer is such an important part of any Together For Cinema installation and I was delighted that Greg and his team were able to take this on, their fourth installation and furthering the difference they’ve helped make in the community.
It was on Monday January 28th, 2026 when the GLO AV installation team and I met the team at Keech Hospice. We were warmly welcomed and were taken to the Teenage Lounge where the current cinema room was located, but sadly hadn’t been in operation for some months.
After a thorough inspection GLO AV confirmed that the main challenges that needing rectifying were the projector, the AVR, the control and associated cables etc… The Monitor Audio speakers that had originally being installed were still working well and the screen was fine.
To renovate the cinema room and give it that one button transformation feel, we needed to select the right kit for the job, and ADI stepped up again with a selection of Control 4 items. We had already had an Anthem AVR donated and still had a Sony projector that had been donated and were in storage in the AWE warehouse in Epsom. Along with some cables and a Blu Ray player we had all that we needed to bring the cinema room back to life and continue bringing joy to the children and their families, and most importantly, help make happy memories for a family facing the toughest of times.
Beyond the AV refurbishment, GLO AV will also be helping to measure up and install the new automated blinds that QMotion are supplying later in the year.
With AWE in Epsom kindly allowing us to store donated items in their warehouse it was fortunate that we already had a few of the required items available to us. Therefore the only items we needed to appeal for were for the control, the cables and a couple of accessories. With ADI always on hand to help, the control was quick to secure, and then with the likes of Aldous Systems and Habitech willingly supporting it was a quick and easy exercise to secure all the items we needed to bring the room back to life.
Thank you to all that donated and the kit list reads as follows…
Tuesday 24th March, 2026.
Thursday 29th April, 2026
This took place on Wednesday 3rd June and was a small, but entertaining event mainly thanks to a young man called Kayden… Kayden’s been going to Keech for some time and is a huge character who couldn’t wait to get in front of the camera and tell us all about his time at Keech, his gaming and of course the football World Cup! He also mentioned ‘his’ newly refurbished cinema room and we think he’s happy with it, particularly when he’s gaming!
Beyond Kayden we were joined by some other children and members of the Keech Hospice care team, as well as Ian Strange from GLO who kindly project managed the installation, and Stuart Burgess from HCA Media, who again kindly took photos and videos for us.
The refurbished system is back to it’s best, and dare I say, even better than before! Great image, fabulous audio and a control system that simplifies operation for all users – such an important aspect of any Together For Cinema installation.
The issue of the automated blinds was raised again as Keech haven’t been able to get a solution from their original supplier so we introduced them to Ian Claxton at QMotion and a solution is in the making.
All in all another lovely opening event and another great result that will be used and enjoyed for years to come.
“The journey GLO took with Keech Hospice was about much more than upgrading technology, it was about helping breathe new life into a bespoke media room that could bring comfort, distraction, and moments of happiness to children and families during incredibly difficult times.
Working alongside Keech and Together for Cinema, we refurbished the existing space, carefully blending trusted equipment with new technology to make the room easier to use, more reliable and more immersive. From improved projection and sound to simple, intuitive control and streaming, every part of the refurbishment was focused on making the experience effortless for staff and enjoyable for families.
More than anything, the aim was to create a welcoming space where children and loved ones could switch off for a while, watch a film, play games, and spend valuable time together — creating moments and memories that genuinely make a difference.”
Ian Strange, Business Development Manager, GLO AV
“Keech Hospice have found the whole process from initial enquiry very easy to bring forward to final completion with GLO. GLO have been very responsive and accommodating to the needs of Keech Hospice and always available to answer questions and provide any further information required. It has been a pleasure to work with GLO and be supported again by Together for Cinema.”
David Rigg, Buildings Manager, Keech Hospice
Thank you so much for your generosity in providing the children's inpatient unit to renovate the cinema room and bringing it back to life. We have enjoyed using this equipment for watching movies, and using the games consoles.
We look forward to using this on a daily basis for children that come onto the unit. We will also use this when children are nearing the end of their life to help make lasting memories by providing a family movie night in a safe and secure environment. Furthermore , we will be able to use the media to present reflective slides and calming music for our remembrance services. In addition, we also look forward to using this for our training days.
Thank you again for your generosity towards Keech Hospice Care.
Ruth Lessing, Children’s In-Patient Unit Matron, Keech Hospice
THANK YOU…, you have helped make a real difference at Keech Hospice in Luton, and in turn, have made a real difference to so many people’s lives.
We’re all aware that charities have to work very hard to secure the funding for most of their operational costs. With the comprehensive and considered cradling of a family through tough times, there is little monies left over for luxuries such as a cinema room.
For Keech Hospice this refurbished cinema room is a wonderful addition to their facility and at a normal cost of around £16,000, is something that would not usually be considered as a possibility.
This was Together for Cinema’s 60th good cause cinema room installation and helped take the Together for Cinema good cause community delivery to very nearly £1.6m worth of installations, had they all been paid for.
For Ian Strange and Elliott Bryan and the GLO AV team, this was their fourth Together For Cinema installation and is a gift that Keech Hospice and their families will enjoy for many years to come. Be it movie time, gaming, karaoke, training, fundraising, the installation will be used and for many different purposes, all bringing joy and benefit to this wonderful cause. Most importantly of all, it will help cradle a families journey and create some happy moments and memories.
Thank you again to GLO AV, for taking this on and I hope the ‘feel good’ factor of being involved in such a project, and making a difference to so many lives, is worth more than any payment.
For further details please contact Ian Morrish at:-
Mobile: 07768 398007 ♦ Email: ian@togetherforcinema.co.uk
www.togetherforcinema.co.uk
Report created by Ian Morrish. All quotes to be from Ian Morrish, unless otherwise stated.
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