Our Welsh 3 Peaks challenge is a physically challenging hike to the summits of Wales’s most breathtakingly beautiful mountains. Your team will join travellers from all of the world to walk a distance of 20.35 miles, making a total ascent of 9,397ft (2,864m) to reach the summits of Yr Wyddfa, Cadair Idris and Pen-Y-Fan.
The Tŷ Hafan Welsh 3 Peaks is kindly sponsored by Thomas Carroll.
You must be 18+ to participate.
Register your interest for 2026!
Date of event
6th June 2026
Location
Yr Wyddfa, Cadair Idris, Pen-y-Fan
Minimum Sponsorship
£250 per person / £1000 per team
Registration fee
£50 per team
Earlybird offer until end of October – £25 per team
Great for your mind and body
The Welsh 3 Peaks challenge is an ideal way to push yourself physically while taking in the breathtaking natural beauty of these three Welsh mountains.
A huge achievement
Climbing three mountains in one day isn’t for the faint-hearted! Completing the Welsh 3 Peaks and raising money for Tŷ Hafan will leave you with a great sense of achievement.
Strengthen social connections and make new ones
Walking in teams, you’ll strengthen the connections you already have with your group while making new friends on the mountains. We’re all in this together!
Fundraising for a great cause
At the heart of this amazing challenge is the goal of fundraising for Tŷ Hafan. Right now, 9 out of 10 families in Wales who have a child with a life-shortening condition are living without the support of a children’s hospice. This means that thousands of families are living their child’s short life alone and often without any support. By taking part in the Welsh 3 Peaks for Tŷ Hafan, you make sure that families in Wales get the support they need through their child's life, death and beyond.
On March 1, 2024, they faced the unimaginable loss of their beloved son, Daniel, at just 16 years old. Just 14 weeks later Jonathan channelled some of his grief when he took on the Welsh 3 Peaks challenge.
“Despite it being hard and sometimes painful, doing the Welsh 3 Peaks challenge was possibly the best thing I did last year.
“I couldn’t fix my boy but I could raise money so that others who are going through the loss of a child could know their child is in the best of hands.”
Read Jonathan's inspirational story here
Hold a “Guess my time” sweepstake
Invite your friends and family to guess how long it will take your team to complete the Welsh 3 Peaks for the chance to win a prize in exchange for a donation to your online fundraising page. You could arrange your own prize or ask a local business to donate one.
Personalise your fundraising page
Personalising your fundraising page by including photos and updates on your training progress can encourage people to donate. Sharing your motivation for completing the Welsh 3 Peaks will help them understand why you’re taking part and why you’re taking part for Tŷ Hafan.
Share your fundraising page around pay day
Sharing your fundraising page around pay day when people have a bit more money to spare is a great way to help secure more donations.
The power of three
Since you’ll be climbing three mountains, why not ask people to sponsor you an amount per mountain or give up three cups of coffee (or pints!) and sponsor you what they save.
Ask your friends and family to share your fundraiser
Asking others to share your fundraising page can help you ger more donations from outside your social circle. This is also a way that people who can’t donate right now can support you.
could help a nurse provide reassurance and comfort to parents their time of greatest need.
could provide a listening ear and practical support to a family trying to cope with the death of their child.
could pay for a community bereavement hub, providing therapeutic memory making and specialist support for families unable to come to the hospice.
Registration costs £50 for the whole team, or take advantage of our £25 early bird deal before the end of October 2025. The fundraising goal is £1000 for your team (£250 per person).
Teams are made up of 4-6 walkers and 1 driver. All participants must be 18+.
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To increase your fitness level in preparation for the challenge, we recommend that you steadily build up to regular exercise regimes in your preferred disciplines:
Jogging is a form of running at a slow or leisurely pace. Jogging regularly can increase your fitness level whilst placing less stress on your body than running.
Try to build up to 30-40 minutes jogging three times a week.
Regular swimming is great for building cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength and endurance whilst placing minimal strain on muscles.
Try to build up to 30 minutes swimming two to three times a week
Cycling is a practical aerobic activity that could be built in to your normal daily routine. Regular cycling builds muscular fitness as well as improving stamina
Try to build up to 30-60 minutes cycling two to three times a week – you may like to try cycling to work or to the shops!
Walking is also an activity that could be built in to your normal daily routine. Take the stairs instead of a lift or introduce an evening walk to your lifestyle.
Try to build up to 60-90 minutes brisk walking during the week, and three to five hours at weekends
Try to practice your walking on a mountain terrain in the lead up to the event. The Brecon Beacons provide an ideal platform to experience the environments that you will face during the challenge.
If you have a question about the Welsh 3 Peaks, don’t hesitate to get in touch with our events team at events@tyhafan.org or call Supporter Care on 029 20 532255. They’ll be able to answer any questions you have.
No, the challenge is NOT a race. The challenge is to raise in excess of £1000 for Tŷ Hafan by successfully climbing all three peaks in one day. Please note that cut-off times apply and these are detailed in your briefing pack.
No, you will need map-reading skills to complete the challenge. We provide marshal points and support throughout the event; however, they are there to provide safety support and not guide you. Therefore, you will need to have map-reading skills.
A full team of four walkers must commence the challenge in Snowdon.
A team of fewer than four members cannot start the event, but every effort will be made to attach them to another team so they can commence the event.
Please inform the Tŷ Hafan events team of any team changes in the run-up to the event. Last-minute team changes can be made at registration in Snowdon on the Friday before the event
The event route is set out as Snowdon first, then Cadair Idris and finally Pen Y Fan due to safety issues. For this reason we climb Snowdon first as it would be dangerous to leave the hardest mountain (Snowdon) until the end of the day when participants are tired.
If the situation arises that we are unlucky enough to get weather that would make the climb dangerous for participants, the organiser may have to decide to alter the route.
This will be decided the afternoon before the event starts. We have only ever experienced one mountain closure in 27 years due to severe weather conditions; however, there is an alternative route available at Snowdon and Cadair Idris in case this happens again.
No, you must take the routes outlined in the briefing pack. For safety reasons, you must follow the marshalled route.
No, the driver has a responsibility to transport the teams safely between mountains.
Online fundraising is a great way to raise sponsorship.
Your team can all fundraise through one fundraising page, just make sure that you include all of your team members’ names so that we can attribute the sponsorship to each person.
When you set up an online fundraising page at www.justgiving.com, search for ‘Tŷ Hafan Welsh 3 Peaks challenge 2026’, which will link your page to the event.
The funds from Just Giving automatically come through to Tŷ Hafan, so once you have set up your page and share it with friends and colleagues, you don’t have to do anything else.
If you have any enquiries relating to the Welsh3peaks challenge, please contact us on the details below.
Telephone events on: 029 20 532 282
Email: events@tyhafan.org
