The Raby Estates Team is once again taking part in the annual Climb of Life, raising money for The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR). This will see us joining teams from businesses located across the north of England, ascending the Lakeland fells highest mountains in early winter conditions. Each team is allocated a mountain to ascend and this year will see Raby scaling the Fairfield Horseshoe, starting and finishing at Rydal between Grassmere and Ambleside, a long and arduous day in the mountains. 

Many thanks indeed to everyone who supported our efforts to raise money for this year’s ICR Climb of Life Appeal. 14 climbers made up the Raby team having been assigned the Fairfield Horseshoe just north of Ambleside for this year’s human mountain endeavour.

This year’s grand total means that this annual event has now raised over £1.6 million during the 32 years that it has been taking place with over £1 million raised for ICR during that period.  This of course would not have been possible without your generous support.  All of us at Raby are therefore enormously grateful to you. Many thanks once again for your support and your donation. 

One third of us will be touched by cancer in our lifetime. The Institute of Cancer Research https://www.icr.ac.uk/ is a charitable academic working body with over 300 scientists and has taken more drugs into clinical trials in the last decade than any other organisation worldwide. We are therefore proud to be supporting such a worthy cause once again this year.

The ICR's theme in 2021 is Getting There By Getting Out There and by scaling ten or twelve challenging lakeland fells between us, we can spell out that theme, and raise vital funds for research. We can continue to make a difference to those of us whose lives are affected by cancer, which is no less of an issue even though Covid-19 is getting all the headlines.