This mammoth event, to be completed in seven days with no sleep or rest, will aim to raise vital funds, and awareness, for two lifesaving charities. Combat Stress is a charity supporting service personnel and veterans with PTSD, anxiety and depression. Seven days of pain is nothing compared to what our service personnel and veterans go through, both mentally and physically, suffering in silence. For over a century the charity has been helping former servicemen and women deal with the effects of their military service, providing specialist treatment and support for veterans from every conflict, focusing on those with complex mental health issues. Now more than ever, veterans need them, and they need you.

The Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team is another charity close to Sip’s heart, who play a vital role in saving lives. With an operational area spanning over eight hundred square miles, volunteers provide an essential, life saving emergency service to the people of Lancashire and beyond, providing search and rescue and medical treatment in challenging terrain. In recent years the charity has increasingly been called upon to conduct searches for vulnerable missing people, working alongside other emergency services. Additional funding to sustain training, equipment and improve facilities will support the charity for years to come, saving lives on the ground. These are two charities who deserve and need our support.