Ed from Stockport Homes Group has taken on a huge running challenge for 2023.

Over the past 18 months, the dedicated team at Stockport Homes Group has been taking on a broad range of fundraising activities helping to raise funds to help us continue our work. This has included abseiling, jumping out of planes, running and walking challenges and more!

Ed, a team colleague at SHG decided to create his own unique fundraiser as part of housing provider’s charity support by running a staggering 500k in 12 months during 2023!

He has astonishingly completed his challenge FOUR MONTHS early, he’s also raised over £700!

We asked Ed to share with us what inspired him to take on such a big challenge, here Ed comments;

We want to say huge well done and thanks to Ed and all of the team at Stockport Homes Group for choosing Once Upon a Smile as their Charity of Choice and for all of the amazing support they have given to us.

See how Stockport Homes Group are getting on with their fundraising and show your support.

Ben is taking on an Ultra Marathon in memory of his nephew who died of an acute and severe asthma attack when he was 10 years old.

Ben has also suffered with asthma for most of his life which makes this undertaking all the more challenging and significant.

As it approaches Isaac’s 18th birthday, Ben wanted to mark this in a special way so decided to tackle the TEC Snowdonia Spring Crossing on Saturday, 25 March 2023, with the hopes of raising at least £3,000 for Once Upon a Smile! This is the UK’s hardest mountain ultra-marathon of the year, with a distance of 56 KM and a total elevation of 3556 Meters.

Ben has been on an 8-month training programme and is taking on this incredible but difficult challenge on Saturday 25th March, with the aim to complete the challenge in around 10 hours.