View Full Version : Chucking the missus out of a plane at 13,000ft-for CHARITY-sponsorship appreciated
Last September my Brother's wife and my wife's best mate Angie died of cancer at the age of 41
Cheryl ( my missus ) wants to raise money for cancer research in her memory and had decided to do a 13,000ft skydive over the Mojave desert ( near the Nevada/Arizona border ) on 7th June
If anyone would like to sponsor her and help a good cause it would be greatly appreciated, no amount is too small :)
Every penny raised will go to the charity as I am paying all costs involved ( sometimes the charity ends up funding the event, this is not the case here )
If you are a UK tax payer the government will also contribute tax relief through gift aid
You can sponsor her here
www.justgiving.com/cherylcolclough
All donations greatly appreciated, if you can't afford it then a couple of words of encouragement in this thread would also be nice
Thanks
Blimey, good on both of you!
I'll see if I have any spare monies after Sakuras facelift, but good luck from me anyway!
Done - sorry it isn't more. Good luck to her :)
Done - sorry it isn't more. Good luck to her :)
Thanks, very kind of you :)
Blimey, good on both of you!
!
well not me really, I would have done it as well but they have a weight limit of 15st10 :p
Thanks, very kind of you :)
well not me really, I would have done it as well but they have a weight limit of 15st10 :p
Hehehe good excuse to eat more pies :p But you are contributing by paying the costs as a lot of the time the sponsor money has to cover these, and it usually ends up just doing this (in my experience) and nothing goes to the charity.
Hehehe good excuse to eat more pies :p But you are contributing by paying the costs as a lot of the time the sponsor money has to cover these, and it usually ends up just doing this (in my experience) and nothing goes to the charity.
yes, seen that happen far too often with these "raise xxx pounds and jump for free" and as you say the charity gets next to nothing
Done. £25 + gift aid is there from me.
Wow thanks folks
Then again I knew you were all great people :)
will donate some in a day or two Grandad. I'm going to put Angie's name on my back runner's sheet again this year when I do the RfL if that's ok with you? :)
Of course, it's a very nice gesture
Thanks :)
of course if you fancy taking me along to take some pictures, I won't say no ;)
;D
you would put up with 2 weeks in Vegas just to do that for us, very kind ;D
Stan_Lite
10-04-2008, 06:57
they have a weight limit of 15st10 :p
That's me ****ed then :p
Bunged in a few quid :)
You'll do anything to justify a trip to Vegas won't you.....;)
That's me ****ed then :p
Bunged in a few quid :)
A few ? :shocked:
Thats extremely generous of you good sir, you are a top bloke :)
You'll do anything to justify a trip to Vegas won't you.....;)
all in a good cause and all that , you know me ;)
thought we had best be out there for 2 weeks just to acclimatise, just by coincidence it coincides with the World Series of Poker too ;D
goldilocks
10-04-2008, 17:44
all in a good cause and all that , you know me ;)
thought we had best be out there for 2 weeks just to acclimatise, just by coincidence it coincides with the World Series of Poker too ;D
and if you win, all your profits will be donated to the charity? ;)
A few ? :shocked:
Thats extremely generous of you good sir, you are a top bloke :)
St Stan I call him!
Thanks for the donation Dawn :)
up to £350 so far and that is mainly from here and OcUK , thanks folks
still have to do Cheryl's work, family, neighbours etc so going well :)
And a worthy way of doing it too. I remember jumping with some charity money raisers it was always a good laugh. Actually that's where I got the inspiration for my OcUK moniker Freefaller - someone asked me my name and I said we'd be in "freefall" or something like that - and they thought I had said my name was Freefella or something like that! LOL! Anyway they had a wonderful time and raised thousands which was brilliant - 2 of them became full time skydivers that I trained!
I'm really impressed with anyone who takes the plunge as it's awesome fun but it's an amazing cause too. :)
I'll donate some money.
That's me ****ed then :p
Bunged in a few quid :)
Without wanting to take it OT, you can actually be heavier once you qualify, it's just for learning they need to be able to man handle you in the sky to a suitable level, but most importantly it's the wing loading on the parachute, the heavier you are the faster the parachute becomes.
merci beaucoup Monsieur Will :)
don't be daft, very generous of you :)
Awww this is such a brave and nice idea :D
We will put some money in at the end of the month when we get paid.
Tell her we said good luck and have fun :D
made a little donation, wish it could be more.
Thanks very much :D
Up to £442 and Cheryl hasn't done her work yet, alos some family still to get :)
Mark , was the £20 for you ? someone at work called Mark said he was donating but he has just appeared as "Mark Smith" , thanks very much if it was :)
It was, but I kept :lipsrsealed: about it. :)
sorry, didn't know you wanted to stay incognito :o thanks anyway :)
Didn't want to, just didn't say anything. :p
Just to say thanks folks, now stood at £552 with about £160 of offline stuff to add and a few more folks to see, should make £1000 by the time the tax relief has been taken into account
Well she did it
was frightened climibing out of plane but once in air was fine, bit of a harsh landing but no damage
will post some pics soon as well as the final amount raise ( there is still some offline stuff to collect )
Thanks again folks :)
Good on her! You should have told me you were doing it this weekend I'd have come up! :( Did you go to Langar airfield?
Good on her! You should have told me you were doing it this weekend I'd have come up! :( Did you go to Langar airfield?
Mesquite in Nevada ;D
OOoooh oops! :o I thought it was local! Dammit you should still have invited me :p
Mrs Rotty here
Just to say thank you to everyone for sponsoring me, I raised £1105 ( £1316.26 with tax relief ) , I have attached a pic below
Thanks again for your generosity
Cheryl
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/rotty66/skydive.jpg
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