HATS OFF (AND ON) FOR WHITE ROSE WALK SUCCESS…

A team of 4 intrepid walkers from Crystal Peaks undertook blistering heat, torrential downpours of rain and gale force winds recently; during their North York Moors traverse when completing the arduous south to north 40 mile sponsored “White Rose Challenge Walk”.

The colleagues, all from the award-winning Sheffield Shopping Centre, Rob Broad, Debbie Hattersley, Chris Jones (Centre Manager) and Kim Jones were helping to improve the funds, appropriately enough, for Ridgeway’s White Rose Children’s Charity to aid special needs youngsters some with life threatening illness and disease such as cancer and leukaemia.

From left to right:Rob Broad - Operations Controller, Debbie Hattersley - Administration Assistant, Chris Jones - Centre Manager & Kim Jones – Management P.A. leaving their hats on!

“I know we’ve raised hundred’s of pounds for the local children’s charity when all the sponsorship comes in, even our neighbourly friends at Meadowhall encouraged and assisted us on our journey with a substantial donation” explained Rob Broad, Operations Manager. “We wanted to do the White Rose Challenge Walk as close as possible to White Rose Day (1st August) for White Rose Children’s Charity because it made the journey so much more worthwhile, and increased our determination to succeed and raise some much needed cash for them. It’s such a good cause - they are all unpaid volunteers.”

“We started on a beautiful scorching sunny day at the White Horse of Kilburn and completed by touching the trig point on top of Roseberry Topping soaking wet through to the bone! But it was well worth the crossing, the Walk is stepped in history, from Bronze Age ancient burial mounds to 18th Century horse racing. Then there’s Hambleton Drove Road where cattle were taken to market in Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire by Scottish and Northumbrian Drovers. The last part was a real roller coaster, passing some of the highest points along the way, Live Moor, Carlton Moor, Cold Moor, the scramble at Wainstones and onward over Urra Moor – I’m sure some long distance walkers will know those names from The Cleveland Way, The Coast to Coast or the infamous Lyke Wake Walk. The views from the ridges were out of this world over the Vale of York and Mowbray - but if we didn’t watch our step, so would we have been too! It’s been terrific and a real adventure.”

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