Welcome to our Growing for Gold fundraising page in support of Mental Health UK! We are the North East Region team at Skipton BS, We are working as a region to raise as much funds as we can and increase awareness of MHUK. We will have lots of events taking place over the 6 months. Our team leaders are Kerry Drewry , Andrew Messenger, Marie Doyle , Lauren Wiles, Katie Hickman and Bronwen Newton

What are our Plans to achieve this ....

All 16 Branches in the NE will be taking part in the Mind your Miles in the month of June there will be biking , walking , running and doing what ever we can to to clock up as many miles as possible to get people moving and raising funds for MHUK.

Ripon Branch have raised £355 doing a bike ride in the branch Well done Ripon

Rhianna & Vikki in Scarborough Branch are running 80K in the month of June they will be running various routes across Scarborough & Ayton including the park run at Wykeham Lakes.

Bedale & Northallerton Branches are completing a challenge to achieve 9300 burpees & 6200 squats During the Month of July. Completing 50 each every day. Jayne will be doing 100 day WOW

Colleagues from the NE region will be taking part in the challenge to complete the Yorkshire Three Peaks on Sunday 3rd July. This is a circular walk other three major peaks in the Yorkshire Dales. The full route is 24 Miles and takes around 12 hours.

We will be drawing on our skills, creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship to fund raise as much as we can to support the brilliant work at Mental Health UK, and in the hope of becoming the winning team!

Together, we want to support people affected by mental health problems. Our aim is to give more people access to good places to discuss mental health, including places like Clic (www.clic-uk.org) a friendly online community of like-minded people where you can speak safely and openly about how you're feeling.