Charity staff to take on Shropshire's version of Three Peaks Challenge
More than 60 people will take on a gruelling physical challenge this weekend to raise thousands of pounds for charity.
Staff, apprentices and students from Crossbar Coaching Education in Sport will don their walking boots to climb The Long Mynd, Stiperstones and The Wrekin on Sunday.
Organisers hope to raise around £6,000 for the Crossbar Foundation, a charity launched last August to support the quality and lives of young people in communities across Shropshire, often through sporting initiatives.
Andy Smith, the community development manager of the Foundation, said: “There will be 20 coaches, 20 apprentices and 22 BTEC students from the Crossbar Performance Academy taking part, so there will certainly be an army of us.
“We will start at The Longmynd and then head over to Stiperstones before finishing at The Wrekin.
“We plan to adopt our motto of 'together we achieve more' and, ideally, we want to try and complete it in under 12 hours.
“One of the coaches, Kevin Sandwith, will be taking part in the Shrewsbury 10K earlier in the day before catching us up for the Three Peaks Challenge, which is a brilliant effort.”
Mr Smith said Crossbar team members had been training to be in the best condition for Sunday.
He added: “We will be travelling together to the three different venues by bus so there will be a strong team spirit and everyone has got their donation pages up and running, more than 60 of them, so there is plenty of chance for family, friends and people on social media to donate.
“If everyone can raise £100 each we would be looking at a total figure of around £6,000, which would be absolutely brilliant to enhance the work we are doing in many communities around the county.
“It will allow us to start new clubs and offer some of the children in deprived communities in Shrewsbury and Telford free places to courses, clubs and trips, and some of the engagement they are not able to have which will help with their emotional, social and physical development.
“We will also be linking in again with Shrewsbury Food Hub and they will supply things like fresh fruit, which will be essential to keep the team going.
“It will be an interesting challenge, but it’s one we are looking forward to.”
