3 Peak Challenge Sponsorship

This month has seen us sponsor two “3 Peak Challenge” teams on behalf of our supported charity - The Nagajuna Trust. The aim of the trust is to support impoverished orphaned children in Nepal by providing them with a stable home and school.

Before the challenge we spoke to Midlands Team Leader and PMI Consultant Dennis Crommentuijn-Marsh about how he thought the challenge would go and his motivation for doing it.

For those who don’t know, what is the 3 Peak Challenge?
It’s basically a 24 hour walk across the three tallest mountains in the UK. Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scafell Pike in England and Snowdon in Wales. It is 42km walking, and a total of 2600m climbing and back down again. The drivers will be doing about 1200 miles.

Sounds tough! Why are you doing the 3 Peak challenge?
Firstly - for fun! As well as that though because personally I want to raise the most amount of money possible for the Nagajuna Trust. This will enable them to ensure that they have enough money to build a permanent school.

So what made you choose the 3 Peak challenge then? Why not just a fun-run?
I always do a big thing every year with my mates so we were thinking of what to do when it hit me, why don’t we do the 3 peak challenge? But we needed a strong team. So I asked all my mates and we now have 8 of us in the Midlands team. Amazingly At the same time, Rebecca Seddon, chairperson of the Nagajuna Trust had the same idea, and she formed the London team, consisting of 8 of her mates. So when we rang each other, it was absolutely clear that we would do this on the same date.

Do you have any targets?
Well to start I would like to not only finish it but to finish it in 24 hours. Secondly again raise the most for the charity. Finally there’s a Nagajuna Trust target, to raise £100,000 so the school can be built.”

How are you keeping people informed?
Firstly we set up donation sites on justgiving.com. We updated our progress live using Twitter This will enable well-wishers across the world to see how we are doing; especially worried mothers! There is also a blog on the Nagajuna site, with photos on Flickr. So all the latest technology is used!

Finally how do you think this will help the charity?
The Nagajuna Trust requires £100,000 to build the school. Whatever we raise through this challenge will contribute towards this. We want to create a sustainable situation, where we have a permanent school, where the children, ranging from 4 to 14, get food, a bed, love and education.”
 

Both the Midlands and the London team successfully conquered all 3 peaks within 24 hours and in the process raised over £5,000 for The Nagajuna Trust. To find out more about how they got on or to donate to the cause visit the Nagajuna website here