FIVE employees from a Redditch recruitment firm have raised £1,000 for Primrose Hospice by completing a gruelling 24-mile charity walk.
Workers from Church Green West-based Workforce Recruitment took part in the 12-hour Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge across the county’s tallest mountains – Pen-y-Ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough.
The group completed the challenge in 10 hours 30 minutes for Primrose the recruitment firm’s chosen charity for 2017.
Joe Alekna, managing director of Workforce, who was also one of the team to complete the walk, said: “Our small group kept each other going through some difficult conditions but to walk the tallest mountains in Yorkshire was a brilliant experience. It felt great to finish on time and raise £1,000 for a charity which achieves so much for people.”
Kate Kelly from the hospice, said: “Joe and the guys took on a huge challenge up in Yorkshire and to do that for Primrose highlights just how supportive they’ve been.”
Primrose Hospice needs £1.75 million every year to keep running all its services, but gets less than a fifth of its funding from the NHS.
