{"id":973987,"date":"2026-05-20T20:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/973987\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:26:25","slug":"west-leeds-family-among-walkers-taking-on-three-peaks-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/973987\/","title":{"rendered":"West Leeds family among walkers taking on Three Peaks Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>By Diane Gardner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Members of the same West Leeds family\u00a0took part in the\u00a0Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge on Saturday, 16 May in memory of late Barca Leeds colleague Peter Richards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The family members included Paula Gardner, her daughter\u00a0Ashleigh Gardner and nieces Samantha Gardner, Gaynor Widdowson Lisa Gardner and Aimee Harris. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"405\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/56924ea2-e4dc-4b54-83b7-f19ed302258d-405x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203068\"\/><\/p>\n<p>They all managed to complete either one, two or three of the peaks, although a couple of them sustained injuries during the challenge and there were a few sore feet and backs on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Gaynor said: \u201cThe peak of Ingleborough was brutal, but I managed to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"802\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/692E6A52-2A89-4F53-9585-910084F2E64B-e1779286338783-802x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203069\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The family, who live in Kirkstall, Pudsey and Wortley, were accompanied by a pink duck, on behalf of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/cmducks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cm ducks<\/a>. Cm ducks are bright coloured ducks given as gifts and associated with people who have or had breast cancer. They have a number and people take them on their travels and take photos and post them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People can still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/campaign\/barca3peaks2026?utm_medium=CA&amp;utm_source=CL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">donate to the Barca-Leeds Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/campaign\/barca3peaks2026?utm_medium=CA&amp;utm_source=CL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crowdfunder here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Barca Leeds staff, friends and supporters took on the Yorkshire Three Peaks walk raising vital funds for Peter\u2019s Fund, which provides vital support \u2014 from clothing and heating to essential household items and practical help that enables people to feel safe, valued and ready to rebuild their lives. <\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"616\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-at-17.13.46-616x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201524\"  \/>https:\/\/www.sunnybankmills.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Diane Gardner Members of the same West Leeds family\u00a0took part in the\u00a0Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[236708,748,208169,223314,393,4884,200366,1860,101522,16,15,207326],"class_list":["post-973987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-barca-leeds","tag-britain","tag-community-reporters","tag-diane-gardner","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-kirkstall","tag-leeds","tag-pudsey","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wortley"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116608788336925987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}