A team from Wales’ leading recruitment and training agency have set themselves a towering challenge as they embark on the gruelling Welsh three peaks challenge.

The three-strong team from Newport-based Acorn will be summiting Snowdon, Pen-Y-Fan and Cadair Idris on May 30, with the aim of completing it in 12 hours in the hope of raising funds towards a specially adapted trike to help a two year-old boy with limited mobility.

The Tomcat Tiger Trike, which costs £2,000, is for two-year-old Noah Dodd, from Gloucester, who was born with Cytomegalovirus (CMV).

Noah was born with CMV, a virus very similar to chicken pox, which greatly affected him in the womb and has led him to be severely brain damaged, visually impaired, profoundly deaf and spastic quadriplegic. He is unable to sit up or stand unaided, meaning he has limited mobility as a result, he is high risk and prone to picking up infections during winter.

The dedicated Acorn hiking team will be made up of Noah’s godfather Marc Jones, operations manager for construction, mechanical and electrical, Lawrence Beach, construction manager, and David Smith, recruitment consultant for construction, mechanical and electrical.

Marc said: “Noah is such an inspirational little boy, who has been through so much already at his young age.

“We wanted to raise as much money as we could to help and we hope that the trike will make a real difference to Noah and his family.”

Acorn has built a reputation for its fundraising and support of the local communities it works within.

Nathan Reid, head of operations for construction trades and engineering at Acorn, said: “Every year we are overwhelmed by the way in which our staff dedicate themselves to fundraising and we try to support them in any we can. We wish Marc and his team the best of luck in their challenge and their fundraising for this extremely worthy cause.”