Last November, Cromer lost an important member of its community. Alfie Gibson was due to start as a Year 7 at Cromer Academy in September 2022 with the rest of his friends from junior school but was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia on Christmas day 2020. He spent the next two years undergoing pioneering stem cell treatment involving chemotherapy and transplants. Sadly, Alfie succumbed to the disease and passed away peacefully in his sleep on Sunday 20th November 2022. Staff at Cromer Academy love a challenge and have decided there is no better motive to push themselves to the limit than for the loss of one of their own.

The National Three Peaks Challenge is notorious not only for the physical demands but because it is difficult to achieve in the time constraints. Staff aim to hike up and down the highest mountains in Scotland (Ben Nevis 1345m), England (Scafell Pike 978m) and Wales (Snowdon 1085m) within 24 hours.

The staff team taking on this challenge:

Vicki Bumphrey- Fundraising

Sam Fitch, Amy Gibson & Laura Seville- Support Crew

Hayley Chambers, Will Edwards, Gerard Floyd, Sarah Fuhri, Liam Kelly, Nicki Leavey, Craig Poole, James Richardson-Howell, Henrietta Small, Tom Starnes, Anna Watmough & Ed Woodrow- Climbers

As a team we want to raise as much money as possible in Alfie's name for Cure Leukaemia. Cure Leukaemia helps blood cancer patients to access pioneering drug and transplant treatments by funding a network of specialist research nurses across the UK. Without these nurses, to ensure patients are monitored and cared for, clinical trials of these new treatments would not run and patients, that have exhausted standard treatment options, would miss out on potentially lifesaving therapies. Every penny raised for Cure Leukaemia helps save lives and also hastens global progress towards the eradication of all forms of blood cancer.