OUR Charity Champions had a true 20/20 vision – to raise £20,000 by 2020.

This was in 2014, when personal trainers Robyn Ablott, from Latchford, and Claire Gregory, from Great Sankey, opened the Female Fitness Academy.

After £5,000 was raised by a London to Paris cycling challenge which ended at the Eiffel Tower, they have been scaling similar heights ever since.

Three peaks, dragon boat racing, a snow triathlon in Finland – it has been such a success they reached their initial target in March 2019 – a year ahead of schedule.

And all done with businesses to run and two children each, making it an amazing achievement well worthy of celebrating.

The two mums who opened up their own fitness academy after being made redundant are on a mission to help women recover from childbirth and banish 'fit-shaming'.

They decided to commit to raising £20,000 by 2020 for charities supporting women and families.

Both were on maternity leave, with their second child, from their full-time jobs at Warrington Collegiate before deciding to embark on the venture.

After becoming aware they would be made redundant, the pair wanted to find a job which would allow them to spend 'as much time as possible' with their loved ones.

The academy, which allows mums to bring their babies along to sessions, has worked with midwives, GPs, physiotherapists and psychologists since opening.

After winning Charity Champions of the Year 2019, the pair said: "A big thanks goes to all of the people who have taken part in the charity events we have organised and those who have sponsored them.

"We wanted to tie-in raising money and creating opportunities for women that were a bit different.

"If you like running, you might normally do a marathon but we got these women to do a snow triathlon, even though they'd never set foot on ice before.

"We work with a lot of new mums and everything is about weightloss and we just wanted to show them that they can train for something with no weight loss goals and nothing can beat that feeling of cycling up the Eiffel Tower - not even fitting in a size eight dress.

"One hundred per cent of all the money raised went to charity, so we self-funded it all and to try and keep it cheap as possible for the women."