Gym owner leads 24 hour fitness challenge to raise over £2,000 for family of courageous young Burnley mum Danielle Harker

Liam McFarlane started the problem at 4pm on the fitness center he owns, LM Fitness in Colne, at 4pm on Good Friday and he was joined by coaches Steve Backhouse, Terry Hartley, Louis Riley-Brazier and Zoe Woof, together with fitness center member Joe Venton.

They accomplished a exercise on the hour, each hour, proper by means of to Saturday afternoon in a bid to cash for the household of Danielle Harker, the younger mum from Burnley who died aged simply 33, after a brave battle towards bowel most cancers.

Friends and household spurred on the group with visits they usually even acquired a go to from the Mayor of Pendle Coun.Neil Butterworth.

For Liam the occasion was particularly near his coronary heart as he was finest man at Danielle’s wedding ceremony when she tied the knot along with her husband, Anthony.

Danielle’s battle touched the hearts of individuals throughout the borough and a fund elevating marketing campaign set as much as assist the household, together with her two youngsters, three-year-old Shae and two-year-old Arlo, has raised over £20,000.]

Hundreds turned up for a enjoyable day in her reminiscence and native companies and organisations have helped out with donations of prizes for a number of raffles and auctions to assist enhance the entire raised.

Danielle’s funeral befell yesterday and mourners paid their respects sporting yellow gadgets and in addition yellow coronary heart badges as a illustration of the sunshine that she dropped at everybody’s lives.