Steve Hill

Steve is the Deputy Head and Year 6 Teacher at St. Joseph’s RC Primary school. He has a motto within his classroom of “Work Hard - Play Hard” and each year he embarks upon a “Mr. Hill’s Challenge”. These personal Challenges are the catalyst for Charity Fundraising and over the last few years they have managed to raise well over £50,000 for a variety of local charities. These challenges are always fully self-funded and have included:- climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, climbing Mont Blanc, climbing Mount Elbrus, trekking through the Sahara Desert, trekking through the Arctic with huskies, trekking through the Jungles of Borneo, trekking to Mount Everest Base Camp and completing the Tenzing Hillary Mount Everest Marathon in 2014. The Charities supported over the years are the Christie Hospital, Dr. Kershaw’s Hospice, Cancer Research UK, PKD Charity, Help for Heroes, Alzheimer’s Society, The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, When You Wish Upon a Star, MacMillan Cancer Support, Leaukemia & Lymphoma Research, British Heart Foundation, S.A.N.D.S & MS Society. The North Pole Marathon is a massive personal challenge which will push Steve to his limits and help to raise money for some great local charities. More importantly, he hopes that completing the North Pole Marathon will inspire the children he teaches to believe that they too can achieve anything that they put their minds too – “I always tell them that if they believe they can do something then they are half way to achieving it!!” In the New Years Honours 2015 Steve was awarded an MBE for services to Education & Charity.