The John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation (JTYAF) would like to congratulate Royal Marine Richie, Amber, Adam, James, Shaun and Tom for their incredible achievement in completing 30,000 press ups at Sainsbury’s Ferndown! Together with 55 JTYAF volunteers their challenge raised an incredible £3,600 in donations from shoppers over the weekend!

 

This challenge required a huge amount of time and commitment to ensure success and the charity can’t thank the team enough for their support.  Richie however is the main man, he got them all together and ran the whole event.

 

Thanks must also go to Overhang, My Protein and Letter X, who sponsored the challenge and a very special thank you to Sainsbury’s Ferndown for hosting the event.  They always go that extra mile for the JTYAF.

 

Congratulations to Karen and Paul who were winners of the One Minute Press Up Challenge and received amongst their prizes 3 months Free at Richie s Fit Camp, a meal for two at the Angel Inn and a Ringwood Brewery Tour. 

 

Without the generosity of the Sainsbury’s customers this would not have been possible but thanks must also go to those who supported Richie’s Team on line and raised another £2852!

 

In total Richie and his team raised £6,452 which is an incredible achievement and will make a massive difference to local young people in the year ahead.

 

This is not the first crazy challenge that Richie has organised to support John’s Foundation.  With Rowathons, 46 Mile Runs, Marathons, Pram Races and 350 Mile Cycles he has now raised £19,000 for the charity!

 

The JTYAF is extremely privileged to have his support.  All the funds raised will help young people to discover their potential, develop their talents and inspire them to ‘climb as high as they can dream

 

For more information about the work of the JTYAF please visit their website at www.jtyaf.org