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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Vet practice team takes on gruelling challenge to raise money for charity
STAFF members of a veterinary practice are taking on the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge in celebration of their 25th anniversary. 15 colleagues from Ashlands Veterinary Centre, which has branches in Skipton, Glusburn and Ilkley, will be aiming to climb Penyghent, Whernside and Ingleborough, on June 12. And while most will be walking and aiming to finish in 12 hours, vets Amy Sansby and Elizabeth Pratt and veterinary nurse Steph Ellis will run the 25 miles, including the 5,200 ascent. The team is hoping to raise £2,500 to split between the Keighley, Craven and Upper Wharfedale branch of the RSPCA and the Veterinary Benevolent Fund (Vetlife), which gives independent, confidential and free advice to people in the veterinary community. Ben Ogden, veterinary practice manager, said: 'This is a very special year for us as we are celebrating our 25th anniversary and we will also be opening our new hospital later in 2025, so we wanted to do a big event to mark the occasion. 'Doing the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge will be a great team bonding opportunity, as well as a chance to have some fun and raise money for two important charities that do so much good work for both animals and members of the veterinary community. 'Even colleagues who aren't taking part have volunteered to be support crew and we will have the practice ambulance parked are various points so we can refuel and have a rest. Some of the team are a little apprehensive but we'll be supporting each other as we always do, and it will be a great achievement.' Excitement is building over the opening of the new hospital which will be twice the size of its current practice in Ilkley and will boast the latest equipment and technology. Plans for the site, which is just further along Leeds Road from the existing practice, include five consulting rooms, with one dedicated to cats, three operating theatres including a dedicated dental suite, an ultra-sound suite and x-ray facilities. The site will also house a CT scanner suite boosting the practice's capability for handling a wider variety of cases, such as orthopaedics, soft tissue issues and tumour analysis. Investment for the practice is being provided by VetPartners, a York-based veterinary group led by members of the veterinary profession, which owns some of the UK's most respected and trusted small animal, equine, mixed and farm practices, including Ashlands Vets. To donate to their JustGiving page, go to: or, if you're visiting Ashlands Vets, you can donate through QR codes around the practice
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Ashlands Vets team to tackle Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge
Employees of a Yorkshire veterinary practice are preparing for the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge, to mark the practice's 25th anniversary. On June 14, fifteen team members from Ashlands Veterinary Centre will attempt to scale the summits of Pen-y-Ghent (694 metres), Whernside (736 metres), and Ingleborough (723 metres) within 12 hours. The challenge is a 24-mile round trip, and the team has added an extra mile in honour of the practice's silver anniversary. Founded in 2000, Ashlands Veterinary Centre has branches in Ilkley, Skipton, and Glusburn. While most of the team will be walking, vets Amy Sansby and Elizabeth Pratt, along with veterinary nurse Steph Ellis, will run the 25 miles, including the 5,200-feet ascent. The Ashlands Veterinary Centre team has set up a JustGiving page, and is aiming to raise £2,500 to split between two charities: the Keighley, Craven, and Upper Wharfedale branch of the RSPCA, and Vetlife. Ashlands Veterinary Centre practice manager Ben Ogden said: "This is a very special year for us as we are celebrating our 25th anniversary, and we will also be opening our new hospital later in 2025, so we wanted to do a big event to mark the occasion. "Doing the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge will be a great team bonding opportunity, as well as a chance to have some fun and raise money for two important charities that do so much good work for both animals and members of the veterinary community. "Even colleagues who aren't taking part have volunteered to be support crew, and we will have the practice ambulance parked at various points so we can refuel and have a rest. "Some of the team are a little apprehensive, but we'll be supporting each other as we always do, and it will be a great achievement." Donations can be made at Plans for a new Ashlands Veterinary Centre site in Ilkley, situated slightly further along Leeds Road from the existing practice, include five consulting rooms (with one dedicated to cats), three operating theatres (including a dedicated dental suite), an ultra-sound suite, and x-ray facilities, as well as a CT scanner suite.
BBC News
03-05-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Sudbury yoga teacher losing sight says it won't stop her
Five years ago, Dawn Blezard went for what she thought was a routine eye the examination revealed she had a rare genetic condition that would eventually cause her to go 49-year-old yoga teacher from Sudbury, Suffolk, was diagnosed with Stargardt's disease and has already lost vision in her left eye, with the other deteriorating. While the condition has already affected her life, she is not letting it stop her from taking on the 40km (24 miles) Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge. Mrs Blezard said she hoped the challenge would show others they too can take on anything they put their minds to. Mrs Blezard's routine eye appointment offered her the chance to pay a small additional fee to have the back of her eyes scanned to check their agreed and after it was done she was told to wait outside which she first thought was "unusual"."They called me back in and this lovely lady said to me, 'Oh my God, I'm so excited, I've only ever seen this in textbooks. You've got a rare eye disease and you've got it on both eyes'," she explained."After that it was kind of a whirlwind." Three weeks later, she was diagnosed with Stargardt's disease, which affects one in 8,000 to 10,000 people. She was told there was nothing that could be done to save her vision and she is now registered as visually impaired. As well as losing her vision, Mrs Blezard can no longer drive and she makes use of a guide cane."I've fallen down flights of stairs and broken my ribs because you have no depth," she continued."As it's deteriorated, it's like a photo - there's no depth, things are quite pixelated so you're living in a filtered world all the time."Mrs Blezard said she had adapted however and she still continues to teach yoga. "My world has changed, but I'm not giving up," she added. 'Why next year?' After her diagnosis, Mrs Blezard discovered the Macular Society who she said answered the phone immediately and helped support years, she had always wanted to take on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge, but had "always put it off"."[My condition] has really made me think, well why next year? Why not this year? Because we don't know what could happen next year," she Blezard decided to take the challenge on for the Macular will set off at 08:00 BST on Saturday and will be joined by members of her yoga community from Sudbury Leisure Centre and from the Self Centre in Bury St will do the walk over two days to accommodate her sight and she said she was "excited" to get going. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
