West Hill Park School Mums take on the 3 Peaks Challenge in memory of parent Heloise Bessey
25 mums and female staff from West Hill Park School in Titchfield, are taking on the Three Peaks Challenge over Friday 6th and Saturday 7th September 2024, in memory of parent Heloise Bessey who passed away from motor neurone disease in May 2024. The group are also raising money for My Name'5 Doddie Foundation and have already raised over £21,000. The just giving link is: https://www.justgiving.com/page/whpmums3peaks
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00:00Hi I'm Annabelle Scott. Annabelle tell me where we are and what's happening over the weekend.
00:04Yeah so we're at Westhill Park School which is where there's 25 mothers and staff, female mothers
00:09and staff, all coming together to do the three peak challenge. We fly to Glasgow this afternoon
00:16and then start the challenge at five o'clock this evening. Brilliant. Tell me why you're doing the
00:20challenge. We're doing it because really sadly one of the mothers here, Heloise Blessey, passed away
00:25from motor neurons in May this year and I thought it was a real opportunity you know in such sadness
00:31to actually all come together and do something positive and it's just been mind-blowing in terms
00:35of the a how many people are doing it and b the support behind the school and also the family.
00:41It's been really uplifting for the family which has been hugely endearing and yeah we as of this
00:47morning we've raised over £21,000 which is just incredible. Amazing. Have you any of you
00:52done a challenge like this before? No, no we haven't. No so I mean there's a real array, there's a real
00:59mix of females within the group from different fitness levels, different ages and that's probably
01:05been the most special by-product of all of this. It's kind of collectively all coming together
01:10and with such a purpose as well so yeah no we haven't but as of tomorrow at 5pm hopefully
01:16the answer will be different. And so I understand obviously this is about raising not only the
01:24money but awareness as well so tell me a bit more about that and what that money is, why it's so
01:29important for that? Yeah for sure what's seriously special about this is that it was actually
01:34Heloise who chose the charity and so I was able to speak with her prior to her passing away and
01:40she chose the charity that we're raising for which is My Name's Doddie 5. They're a
01:45smaller charity and they were a huge support to her and her family and this type of donation is
01:50going to be hugely influential for them in terms of raising further research, further knowledge
01:55around it so yeah it feels very special. Wish you the best of luck. Thank you so much.