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Colette Graham and Nathan James take to the sky in aid of Oxfordshire Mind

Colette Graham and Nathan James are embarking on a 12,000 ft jump out of an aeroplane in aid of Oxfordshire Mind!

Whilst exiting the plane they will accelerate to 120 mph, covering a thousand feet in 5 seconds!  At 5,000 ft their instructors will deploy parachutes and will hopefully return them both safefully to earth some four minutes later.

Colette and Nathan both work for Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (OBMH) which provides specialist mental health services to people in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and the surrounding counties, and highly specialist services to patients from across the UK.

One in four people are affected by mental illness and about two in every thousand people need specialist care for serious conditions, such as severe anxiety or depression, eating disorders or addictions.  OBMH has a number of bases across both counties, which provide day care, in-patient services, and services in the community.

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Colette and Nathan's main reasons for taking part in this event are to raise awareness of mental health and to support Oxfordshire Mind.

Oxfordshire Mind is a great charity to support and we know they aim to raise at least £30,000 each year to sustain and develop their services - that's why we want to help!  visit http://www.oxfordshire-mind.org.uk/ to see the array of services the charity has to offer.

To participate in this event we've both paid a registration fee of £30 and we've pledged to raise £450 each for Oxfordshire Mind through sponsorship and fundraising.  We are excited about this challenge and hope you will support us.

In 2009/10 Oxfordshire Mind needs funds to develop various areas of its work.  Your donation will play an essential part in this as it will help us:

Develop our evening services for working people, parents and students; in order to support more people to develop and fund evening services;
Raise awareness about mental health issues;

Produce publicity materials, as people are still not aware of the services we have to offer;

Develop our CBT Group Work Programme, we are currently running groups on Coping with Anxiety, Challenging Depression, and Building Self-Esteem.  The groups have proven to be very successful and are in high demand. 

Train staff to deliver Cognitive Behavioural Therapy;  there is a growing need for these courses and we would like to be able to train 3-4 staff on this course over the next year. 

Access to a range of therapies and creative activities for people with mental health problems living on benefits; access to Massage, Reflexology, Aromatherapy, Yoga, Head Massage, Chi Gong, Meditation, Dance, Music, Creative Arts etc. can greatly improve people’s mental well being.  £2000 would allow us to run 50-60 varied sessions for people with mental health problems within our projects. 

Volunteer training; training volunteers is costly, but many volunteers go on to work in mental health which is good for those who live in our community. 

Fund our rural transport service; we have a network of fifteen community resource projects throughout the county.  To run this service costs approximately £15,000 per annum (including fuel, servicing, repairs, insurance, volunteer expenses etc).  We will have to replace one of our mini buses in 2012 at a cost of approx £40,000 - We have raised approx £2,000 so far. 

Refurbishment of Mind projects; some of our Community Resource projects are in desperate need of re-decoration and refurbishment.   We need funds to refurbish and redecorate the projects, undertake structural work to support the development of community kitchens, renew key electrical appliances in the kitchens (e.g. cookers, dishwashers and fridge / freezers), develop and equip community ICT hubs providing internet access and access to learning opportunities, purchase comfortable chairs for group work and training activities, new tables and chairs for proposed community cafés, information and display racks and develop some new signage for the projects.

Donating through this site is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to sponsor me: Oxfordshire Mind will receive your money faster and, if you are a UK taxpayer, an extra 28% in tax will be added to your gift at no cost to you.

So please sponsor us now!  Many thanks for your support. 

Colette and Nathan

Good Luck and be safe guys! Donation by Lindley Nevers 07/10/09  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Good luck. Rather you than me. Donation by Chris Brearley 01/10/09  

£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid

Good luck guys. Donation by Justinian Habner 28/09/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

GOOD LUCK Colette! Donation by Mark Skoyles 22/09/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Enjoy the experience! Donation by Lyn Williams 15/09/09  

£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

Try not to land south of the Kassam Stadium - there's a sewage farm there! Donation by anonymous 12/09/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Donation by David Bradley 07/09/09  

£40.00 + £11.28 Gift Aid

Far more courageous than I!!!!! Donation by ROGER REED 01/09/09  

£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

A worthy way of raising donations - have a great time - enjoy Donation by Richard Roach 28/08/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Well done. You are braver than me. The only advice i can give is wear brown trousers! Donation by Beverley Rawlings 28/08/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Good Luck! Donation by Tracy Prosper 28/08/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

You crazy woman!!!! enjoy it! muas xx Donation by Pilar Barroso 27/08/09  

£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid

Enjoy, enjoy , Enjoy - rather you than me ;-) Donation by BexXx 27/08/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

It will be AMAZING!!! Enjoy every second :) Love Em x Donation by Emma Daly 27/08/09  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Couldn't cope with the nagging reminders, so have finally paid up so you can go and bother someone else now!! Happy jumping xxx Donation by Ali Neary 25/08/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Wow...so brave!!! Something I'd love to do, even better to raise money! Have a brilliant time (if you can!) Donation by Laura Mackenzie 25/08/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Who's going to be strapped to who! Good luck. Donation by Gareth Kenworthy 25/08/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Donation by Mary Wicks 18/08/09  

£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid

Best of luck to you both. Donation by Stefan Schuller 17/08/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Good Luck to both of you-you are very, very brave. Best wishes Jo Donation by joanna rockwood 17/08/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Don't look down ! (Not sure if that is the best advice .....) Donation by Linda Whitehead 17/08/09  

£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid

Good luck - it's a long way down! Donation by Jacqui Bourton 16/08/09  

£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid

Donation by Colette Cozens 14/08/09  

£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid

Respect!! If you want to go throwing yourselves out of planes, you have my complete admiration! Donation by Jillian Addis 28/07/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

hang on tight to everything Colette I love you mum Donation by penny graham 21/07/09  

£25.00

Aeroplanes and heights - absolute nightmare! I am deeply impressed! Hope you enjoy it! Donation by Elizabeth Sheppard 16/07/09  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Watch out for where you land! Good luck both of you Donation by Helen Millar 15/07/09  

£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

Good Luck Donation by deirdre moroney 13/07/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Good luck Colette Donation by Joy Skoyles 11/07/09  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Good luck guys, wish I was brave enough. Not even sure I could manage a sponsored silence! Look forward to seeing the photos. Donation by Carrie-Ann Wade Williams 09/07/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
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* Total raised online: £645.00
  Offline donations: £125.27
  Gift Aid plus supplement: £174.87

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