STAFF from De Brook Lodge care home in Flixton have moved mountains for their residents, as they climbed the highest mountain in Wales, Mount Snowdon, at the weekend.

Five members of staff including home manager, Helen Johnson, took part in the climb, which saw them walk eight miles in seven hours to raise money for the residents’ fund.

The idea came after De Brook Lodge care assistant, Andrea Byrne, attempted the ascent earlier in the year, but unfortunately had to abandon her efforts due to injury. She resolved to try again and decided to enlist the support of her colleagues from the home, and also to raise money for the residents’ fund at the same time.

The five climbed up the Pyg track and took the Llanberis path down, stopping for a cold class of Prosecco to celebrate when they reached the summit.

Tammy Brooks, care assistant at De Brook Lodge and part of the climb team, said after the climb: “I felt all different emotions when I reached the top – relief, pain, happiness, accomplishments, you name it, I felt it! And it didn’t stop there, we had to climb down again! But we worked as a team and we made it - it feels amazing to have raised so much money for our residents.”

De Brook Lodge resident, Betty Slater, said “We are so grateful to them all. It is a brilliant amount of money and we will certainly spend it wisely.

"I couldn’t climb a mountain, but they did, and they did it for us.”

So far the group has raised £750, and the money will go towards a juke box for The Ritz area of the home.

De Brook Lodge, which is operated by Ideal Carehomes, provides residential and dementia care for 52 residents.