“I’m very glad to be supporting this wonderful cause and I look forward to seeing everybody on the night.”
Kevin Ashman, Host of The Big Quiz 2025Previously ranked as the world’s number one quizzer, Eggheads ‘Grandmaster’ Kevin Ashman will host this year’s Big Quiz for Wessex Cancer Support.
The annual charity quiz is taking place at Eastleigh’s Concorde Club on Tuesday 30th September.
The Winchester-born quiz champion is taking on the role of quizmaster for the first time, following in the footsteps of Shaun Wallace, Hugh Dennis and Mike Osman, who have previously hosted the event.
Kevin, a six-time winner of the World Quiz Championships, six-time European quiz champion and eleven-time British quiz champion, has – most famously – spent two decades as ‘The Grandmaster’ on hit TV quiz show Eggheads. Kevin said:
“I’m very glad to be supporting this wonderful cause and I look forward to seeing everybody on the night.”
Kevin Ashman, Host of The Big Quiz 2025The charity’s Head of Community, Events and Partnerships, Lorraine White, said:
“Whether it’s a team-bonding exercise with colleagues, an evening with friends or a challenge with your pub quiz team, our quiz night is full of fun, facts and just the right amount of healthy competition. “We’re absolutely thrilled to be joined by Kevin this year. To have the world’s former number one quizzer hosting our event is just fantastic – when it comes to quizzes, it doesn’t get better than him.“We’re so grateful to Kevin for giving his time and expertise to ensure our Big Quiz 2025 raises lots of money for local people affected by cancer and is an evening we won’t forget.”
The event starts at 7pm and will end by 10.30pm. A table of six costs £210 and includes supper. Tickets are expected to sell out quickly, so the charity encourages anyone interested to book their table as soon as possible.
Wessex Cancer Support provides free, local and personalised emotional support to anyone affected by cancer in Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight. Clients may have cancer themselves, be adjusting to life after cancer, supporting someone with cancer, or be bereaved. It is a charity which relies on donations to provide this support.
Through its four cancer support centres in Chandler’s Ford, Bournemouth, Waterside (Hythe) and Newport (Isle of Wight), the charity offers a drop-in service, professional counselling, complementary therapies, activities, support groups and courses. It also provides online services so people can access support from the comfort of their own home.
It runs services in the heart of the community, including popular Sing for Life choirs and transport on its Daisy Buses to help Isle of Wight and Channel Islands patients get to their hospital appointments on the mainland.
Learn more about us here.