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Tower dash raises $10k for charity

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Craig Dackers with the Signature Homes team that raised the second highest total of any of the teams taking part in last Friday's Corporate Sky Tower Stair Challenge.

Craig Dackers with the Signature Homes team that raised the second highest total of any of the teams taking part in last Friday's Corporate Sky Tower Stair Challenge.

A bunch of Northlanders have raised more than $10,000 for charity after dashing up 1103 stairs in Auckland in SkyCity's Corporate Sky Tower Stair Challenge.

A team of five from Regent Countdown and Craig Dackers, owner of Signature Homes Whangarei, took part in the event on Friday.

Mr Dackers raised $5010 for the cause -- Leukaemia and Blood Cancer NZ -- the second highest total by an individual in the challenge. His team raised $9636, the third highest team total.

The team from Regent Countdown -- Gladys Himiona, Victoria Martin, Lui Poutai, David Mohi and Ahdeep Singh -- raised $5230 and the entire challenge has raised more than $343,000.

Mr Dackers was hoping to complete the challenge in 15-20 minutes, but managed it in 11m 22sec.

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He said it was a great event and he challenged more Northland businesses to take part next year.

Ms Martin said the Countdown team's times ranged from 8m 2sec to just over 20m and they were all keen to take part again next year.

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