Gloucester glazing companies complete three peaks for Motor Neurone Association

By Peter Davison

16 November 2023

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Gloucester-based Window Widgets & The Residence Collection completed the Three Peaks Challenge

A team from the glazing industry, including members from Gloucester-based The Residence Collection, and Window Widgets, has tackled the National Three Peaks Challenge to raise vital funds for motor neurone disease.

The 15-strong team from The Residence Collection, Window Widgets, Kubu, Roseview Windows, Avantis, Sussex County Windows, Nozzle and Listers embarked on a gruelling 27-mile hike across Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Mount Snowdon.

Completed in 24 hours, the team clocked a combined total of 1,035,776 steps and 43.45km climbed across the three peaks summited.

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The challenge was completed to raise funds and awareness for Motor Neurone Disease Association as part of their commitment to Jaki’s Journey.

Jaki’s Journey holds a personal connection to organiser Sam Weber from Sussex County Windows, as a much-loved friend was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in summer 2022 - just seven months after getting married.

The team originally set themselves a target of £1,000 which they have surpassed. Thanks to their generous supporters, they have raised a huge £7,716 plus an extra £1178.75 in gift aid.

Sam Weber, organiser and general manager for Sussex County Windows, said: “It never ceases to amaze me that both the challenge and the people always make fundraising so special.

“When one of my dearest friends was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease only seven months after her wedding day I felt compelled to do something to raise money for MNDA. Fast track seven months, our kind and generous glazing community had come together to be a part of Jaki’s Journey, and I am immensely proud of this fine group of individuals.

“Throughout the challenge we have experienced every type of emotion possible. During the Three Peaks the tema endured torrential rain and 40kmh winds, but their resilience never waivered, and it made the training and fundraising all worth it.”

Companies from across the fenestration industry also commented on their experience of the Three Peaks challenge for Jaki’s Journey.

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Jo Trotman, marketing manager at The Residence Collection and Window Widgets, said “As a business we’re incredibly proud to have been able to take part in this challenge with other determined members of the fenestration industry to raise vital funds for the Motor Neurone Disease Association in line with Jaki’s Journey.

“It was definitely one of the most challenging experiences many of us have ever faced physically but our collective determination to raise funds for Motor Neurone Disease Association kept us going.”

By Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.