Jo and her friends gearing up for epic Saddleworth Three Peak challenge
Date published: 27 May 2022
Saddleworth woman Jo Taylor is well prepared for the Saddleworth Three Peaks challenge
Saddleworth woman Jo Taylor, from ABC Diagnosis, has urged women with cancer and their friends and family to take on the Saddleworth Three Peak challenge as she bids to extend her most successful fundraising event ever.
Jo, who herself has secondary breast cancer, has revealed that over 40 people will be taking on the latest epic challenge tomorrow (Saturday) - walking three peaks of Saddleworth.
All efforts are in support of ABC Diagnosis, an organisation providing support and exercise retreats for people with breast cancer.
Past attendees of the abcd motivational exercise retreats, a mixture of primary and secondary breast cancer patients, friends and family members, are joining in the challenge and helping to fundraise for ABCD to continue the support for the retreats.
Jo said: “These retreats are fantastic and a lot of past attendees wanted to support them going forward.
"We had an idea to create a challenge to do a three peaks of Saddleworth hike.
"We now have a large group of people taking on this challenge together on Saturday.
"Past attendees from the North West area, South Wales and Southern England are coming back to Saddleworth to take part and setting off on Saturday morning to complete this - hopefully in less than seven hours.
"It's a real group effort and wonderful that they are doing so much to support ABCD - they are such an inspiration."
ABC Diagnosis work in partnership with local businesses to support the retreats, so at the same time they are supporting the economy of the local community.
Six of the patients doing the challenge have secondary breast cancer which can include their their bones, liver, lungs and brain - these are the places secondary breast cancer travel to.
Some of them have SBC in multiple areas.
They will show that even with this disease, they can still keep active and fit, which is vital to their wellbeing - they are certainly not defined by cancer.
The retreats are extremely popular and are fully booked for 2022.
Support can be given to this great initiative by donating here
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