Thanks for the help and replies guys, I got a bit frustrated with the lack of progress so i stepped away from the project for a few days.
I copied what you did in your screenshot and that didn’t work. unfortunately.
However I went poking around with the variables and I found a little button called ‘Expose on Spawn’ which on each variable of WBP_Timer I switched on.
This button allowed me to reference the WBP_Timer in the Create Widget nodes and that somehow solved the issue!
