Staff at a care home group have scaled England's, Scotland's and Wales' highest mountain peaks for a worthy cause.
Workers at Millenium Care scaled Snowdon in May, Scafell Pike in June and Ben Nevis in July in aid of dementia charity, Alzheimer's Society.
The company has five care homes in the region, including Lavender Hills Care Home in Ramsbottom and the challenge was part of its corporate social responsibility strategy to support the community.
Many of the care group's residents are affected by dementia.
Millennium Care managing director, Omair Haider, said: "I’m so proud of the team for taking on a momentous challenge to raise money for such a worthy cause.
"Alzheimer’s affects many of our residents and it is important for us to work for something on their behalf.
"Around 900,000 people are currently living with dementia in the UK and one in three of us will go on to develop dementia in our lifetimes."
The challenge was sponsored by several organisations such as Bee Adventures, Alessandro Caruso Architects and A Good Day.
The Alzheimer’s Society is the UK’s largest collective of carers, researchers and campaigners fighting against the biggest challenges facing people living with dementia.
Alzheimer’s Society Greater Manchester area manager, Sue Clark, added: "We are committed to improving the lives of people currently living with the condition, while continuing to invest in research, product innovation, and calling the government to get diagnosis rates back up and on target.
"Thank you very much for your support and your fantastic Three Peaks fundraising effort."
Earlier this year, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care said: “We want a society where every person with dementia, their families and carers, receive high quality, compassionate care, from diagnosis through to end of life.
“We invested £17m in tackling dementia waiting lists and increasing diagnosis rates last year and we have committed to double the funding for dementia research to £160m a year by 2024/25.
“We are making up to £7.5bn over the next two years available to support adult social care and discharge – the biggest funding increase in history – and are promoting careers in care through our annual domestic recruitment campaign and by investing £15m to increase international recruitment of carers.”
For more information or to donate to the cause, visit Millennium Care's crowdfunding page on justgiving.com.
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