A director from Cheltenham based Mitchells Chartered Accountants is preparing to reach an impressive 15 summits in order to raise funds for a newly created charity.

Jim Glanville, 42, is currently in training for the 15 Peak Challenge which will take place during early August in North Wales. The challenge will see him climb 15 separate 3,000 foot mountains in Snowdonia in return for sponsorship for the Little Princess Charity. The Little Princess Charity was set up locally to help provide hairpieces to children suffering hair loss to due chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

Jim comments: “The 15 Peaks Challenge is a route of 26 miles from the top of Snowdon to Foel Fras, including some 15,000 feet of ascent and 15 summits. I have therefore been training hard to prepare for the challenge and although I am hopeful, there’s no guarantee I’ll make it due to the shear scale of the mountains. Imagine how hard it will be to climb and descend 15 different 3000 feet mountains, dealing with blisters, 1000 foot shear drops and not forgetting Snowdonia's notoriously unpredictable weather.

“I am inviting sponsorship from Mitchells’ clients, School contacts as well as friends and family and the local business community. The Little Princess Charity, which urgently needs funding, was created after a five year old girl in my daughter’s school year at Hereford Cathedral Junior School developed cancer and sadly died. During her treatment, the fact that there seemed to be no one supplying decent hairpieces for children receiving cancer treatment, affected the girl and her family greatly. So after her death her parents and the school decided to form the charity. I feel that I would really like to help the charity, since I too suffered from childhood cancer but was fortunate enough to survive.”

View an article from the Hereford Times here

For more information or to offer sponsorship please call Jim Glanville at Mitchells Chartered Accountants on 01242 260066 or
e-mail jim@mitchells.org