Our main reason for doing the jump was that unfortunately Tony Marchant (who jumped on Sunday) lost his wife to cancer last summer.
We work together at Salisbury Cathedral School and when I started talking about a skydive for a cancer charity Tony didn’t take much persuasion to join us!
Nick Denning had already looked into skydiving so between us we “encouraged” the Head Masters wife – Jane Greenfield, our new Zealand gap student – Alysha Adam and Avril Greenstock to join us.
My husband Barry and my son Ben Grant have always wanted to skydive and finally Linda Beach (a past member of staff) joined us to celebrate the fact that she has recently been given the 5 year “all clear” after she too had breast cancer. Linda wanted to give something back as a thank you for her successful treatment. As you know Paul Carter, whose wife Sam, also works at the school, decided to join us on the day.
I chose skydiving because it really is a challenge especially as most of us were/are terrified of heights and in some cases flying too! It really did grab people’s attention, either they had jumped themselves or they said “you won’t catch me doing that, you must be mad.”
The staff and parents of the school together with our friends and families have been so generous and we have raised around £3000 for Breakthrough Breast Cancer which together with the Gift Aid should bring our total to nearly £4000!
Best wishes
Sandy
