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On 8^th July this year Julie, Billy and Jenny, along with an amazing group of family and friends will be attempting the National Three Peaks Challenge in 24hrs. We are raising money for SAMM, ‘Support after Murder and Manslaughter’, a charity that has supported and helped us following the murder of Joanna in 2006.

We will be climbing the three highest peaks in England, Scotland and Wales: Ben Nevis (1,344m), Scafell Pike (978m) and Snowdon (1,085m). Considered one of Britain’s toughest outdoor challenges, we will trek around 26 miles and ascend to a total height of almost 3,000m (much of it in the dark and through the night!)

SAMM provide a unique support service, designed by the bereaved for the bereaved to meet a persons’ emotional support needs. All volunteers receive bespoke training and have been bereaved through homicide themselves. They have a unique understanding of what it is like to be traumatically bereaved and are a constant source of support and help to families in need. The charity has helped us as a family and do amazing work. SAMM do not receive much funding or awareness, so we want to raise as much money as possible to help them provide their invaluable support service and to continue their much-needed research, legal and advocacy work.

We will be taking some of Jo’s ashes to scatter at the top of each mountain so she can be with us, and we will share our photos of our training and the actual challenge :). 

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