David Fletcher's Fundraising Page
Page creator: David Fletcher
Event: MEC "Face your fears" skydive
Event Date: 22nd Aug 2008
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Look Ma! I'm flying!
About my charity : Five Talents UK Five Talents UK
Five Talents empowers the active poor in developing countries with business training and small loans - helping entrepreneurs to start and expand small businesses. Our motto is; "Fighting poverty, creating jobs, transforming lives" - using microfinance to give people a hand-up out of poverty rather than a hand-out! Thanks for supporting us.
Charity Registration No 1113969
Fundraising target:  £2,500.00
Donations so far:  £ 2,340.00
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Back to earth with the gentlest of landings.  Easy peasy, like falling off a log, albeit a log that's really really high up and travelling at distictly inorganic velocity.

Anyway, just because the whole "I'm not stepping out of a perfectly good plane attached to nothing but a slightly unhinged Irishman unless y'all cough up loads of wedge" is now technically complete doesn't mean further messages of a financial nature aren't welcome. 

Backplot below...

I only have myself to blame.  We did this stuff at MEC about how we all needed to behave bravely so some bright spark hit on a "face your fears" notion and before you know it i'm signed up to the 12,000 foot "one small step for a man, one giant lurch for breakfast" thang on 22nd August.

Anyway I'll be raising money for the rather excellent Five Talents, who fight poverty in the developing world by creating jobs.  Savings schemes, small loans and business training empower the active poor to start and then build a small business.  The money they earn helps pay for all the things we take for granted: food; a home; clothing; healthcare; education.

I'm a trustee of Five Talents and have seen the work in action (see my video of Five Talents' work in Peru on this page and others at www.fivetalents.org.uk/page-videos.html) so can vouch for the reality of the transformational effect of the work.

MEC will match the first £500 I raise, so book early to see Tom George open his wallet. Photographic evidence of this momentous occasion (Tom opening his wallet, not the skydive) will be provided. 

Hitting my £2.5k target makes it 21p a foot all the way down.  I promise I'll count each and every one.

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Fletch
Display Name Date Amount Tax Bonus  Comment
Gifty and Sharon 28/09/2008 £15.00 n/a  
Tim Irwin 23/09/2008 £20.00 £5.64 is that the end of your mid life crisis? 
Mashudu 21/09/2008 £10.00 n/a  
Toby Jenner 20/09/2008 £50.00 n/a That's why I left the country 
Conrad 07/09/2008 £45.00 £12.69 Well done! 
Eulogy 04/09/2008 £50.00 n/a Well done on your jump - great photos! 
pete hoban 03/09/2008 £10.00 £2.82 well done David I'm well impressed! 
pansy 31/08/2008 £10.00 n/a DF paid in cash 
Soma, Simon and Margaret 25/08/2008 £50.00 n/a DF paid in cash 
Bob 22/08/2008 £5.00 £1.41 Rather you than me! Congratulations. 
Dodd family 21/08/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Amazing! Good luck from us all. 
RKelly 21/08/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Enjoy it, express yourself, etc 
SJ 20/08/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Good Luck Fletch! 
Loraine 19/08/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Race you to the bottom! 
Gideon 19/08/2008 £20.00 £5.64 '..out of a perfectly good plane!' - what lifestyle group would be foolish enough to do that? 
Cormac Loughran 19/08/2008 £20.00 £5.64 When you hear brace, brace........good luck! 
Anne-Marie 19/08/2008 £50.00 £14.10 What an amazing thing to do...enjoy!! 
Nicole S 19/08/2008 £20.00 £5.64 So near but yet so so so so far 
Tam 18/08/2008 £15.00 £4.23 Good luck fletch! 
sarah hen 18/08/2008 £20.00 £5.64 don't forget to scream! 
Stuart Bowden 18/08/2008 £15.00 £4.23 Jump! Jump! Jump! 
Frances O'Neil 17/08/2008 £10.00 £2.82 The only hard bit will be landing.....fingers crossed for you! 
Nick Baughan 15/08/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Can't wait for both videos 
Jenny Eldridge 14/08/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Yikes not long till we jump!! See you in the pub after for a well needed pint! 
Birgit-Malene 14/08/2008 £25.00 n/a Well, lets see what that adrenaline kick will do to you. - It might become a habit. Best of luck 
Fran Kennish 13/08/2008 £20.00 n/a wow ... can't wait to see you in "action" 
Stephan Bruneau 13/08/2008 £50.00 n/a Hey, hopefully there will be a video to showcase at the next MediaLab Forum! 
Andy Wasef 13/08/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Best of luck Fletch 
Sarah 12/08/2008 £20.00 n/a Only if you succesgully complete your skydive without screaming! 
Stuie 12/08/2008 £20.00 £5.64 It will be like a spider falling from the sky 
Louise Stebbings 08/08/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Good Luck! 
Paul & Marion Baker 04/08/2008 £50.00 £14.10 I trust you have researched the risks with your normal efficiency!! 
Julian Tooke (on behalf of BMRB) 28/07/2008 £100.00 n/a Best of luck 
Joy Williamson 27/07/2008 £25.00 £7.05 Just admire the view! 
Steve and Marion 26/07/2008 £15.00 £4.23 And all because the lady loves milk tray !!!  
Mum and Dad Fletch 25/07/2008 £100.00 n/a We're biased of course, but even if we weren't, we would say this is true dedication to the cause, brave, wonderful - Shall we go on?! Godspeed David 
Helen Greatrex 25/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Very brave.. 
Sue Elms 24/07/2008 £30.00 £8.46 Bend your knees when you landxx 
Emma Slater 24/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Go fletch Go! 
Kathy J 22/07/2008 £25.00 £7.05 'This isn't flying, this is falling with style!' (Buzz Lightyear, 1995) Good Luck! 
Fran & Martin 21/07/2008 £50.00 £14.10 Just have breakfast AFTER and foil the bookies. You never know, this might turn out to be a new passion 
Camilla 21/07/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Rather you than me! 
Will Cook 18/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Close your eyes and remember the kids! 
Duncan Southgate 18/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Best of luck - am sure you'll love it 
Nick Kelvin 18/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 They say the heart attack gets you before the imact! 
Nathalie Alfred 17/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Can't wait to see the mini-movie!  
Rich and Julia 17/07/2008 £30.00 £8.46 Go for it Dave ! 
Hamish Davies 16/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Flying Fletch! 
abigail 16/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Fletch you are absolutely bonkers 
Corinna Grant 16/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Remember no gripping the sides of the doorway on the way out 
Steve Goodman 16/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Best of luck with this. 
Peter Walshe 16/07/2008 £25.00 £7.05 Float well 
simeon 16/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Is this MEC sending you a message? Good luck 
Charlie 15/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 How exciting... good luck! 
Clare Alger 15/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Smile nicely for the company camera... Good luck... 
Anon 14/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 This is hugely impressive. Very best wishes.  
The Wilsons 14/07/2008 £30.00 £8.46 Close your eyes and think of Five Talents! 
Emma Sheehan 14/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Good Luck Fletch! 
Jon Wright 14/07/2008 £50.00 £14.10 obviously wishing for no broken bones - good luck!! 
Matt Coombs 11/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Good luck! 
Uli Hamacher 11/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Faster, Fletch, faster... or was that a different sport? 
Ed & Suzanne Gaffney 11/07/2008 £50.00 n/a What odds are the betting shops giving on you tossing breakfast? 
Sharon Dixon 11/07/2008 £20.00 n/a will there be an audio recording? 
Robert Stratton 11/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 enjoy 
Cynthia 11/07/2008 £20.00 n/a ojala 
Fiona Kidd 11/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 weeee splat ;-) It'll be awesome fun - speaking from experience 
ifrana 11/07/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Good luck! 
Tom & Rachelle 11/07/2008 £30.00 £8.46 Catch a Falling Star - you're amazing! 
Gary & Sue 09/07/2008 £100.00 £28.21 We can only apologise! 
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*Total donated online: £1,810.00
Amount raised offline: £530.00
Gift Aid plus supplement: £344.10
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