A team from Porsche Centre Wolverhampton & Chris Jewkes Fitness will be embarking on the ‘3 Peaks Challenge’ in June 2020 in support of the ‘Leukaemia Unit Appeal Fund’. 

The challenge will involve the whole team climbing Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scafell Pike in England and Snowdon in Wales within 24 hours. This will be an incredibly gruelling task, which will see the team cover over 26 miles of walking with a total ascent of nearly 10,000ft - all within a day and in one case, will involve climbing one of the mountains during the middle of the night!

Our chosen charity is one which is close to the heart of Ben Robinson (Porsche Wolverhampton Sales Manager) as his grandmother was one of the founders in the 1980s and continues to this day to be a driving force behind the charity along with a team of dedicated volunteers.

Fundraising began as there was no dedicated Leukaemia Care Unit within the Dudley Borough, and the NHS were not in a position to fund one being built themselves, so she, her colleagues, other nurses and patients began a fundraising mission to pay for ‘The Georgina Unit’ to be built at Russell’s Hall hospital to care for patients with Leukaemia and other blood related illnesses. Fundraising started in 1984, and the charity was formally created in 1989. Some 15 years of intensive fundraising later, the ‘The Georgina Unit’ was completed and formally opened.

Since then, they have continued to fundraise Millions of pounds which have paid for (amongst other things) Nurse training, Stem cell machines, Private Doctors, Private Nurses, Modifications to the care unit, Holiday homes for patients to use whilst in recovery/during treatment, and most recently…’Chemotherapy at Home’ which involves paying for Private healthcare professionals to visit patients at home to administer Chemotherapy – Which costs some hundreds of thousands of pound a year, as there is no NHS support.