David Fletcher is fundraising for Five Talents

David Fletcher's Fundraising Page

MEC "Face your fears" skydive

on 22/08/2008

Look Ma! I'm flying!

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Raising money for

Five Talents

Charity Registration No. 1113969

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.

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David Fletcher

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Raised: 94%

Target: £2,500.00
Raised so far: £2,340.00

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My story

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.

Donating through Justgiving is quick, easy and totally secure. It’s also the most efficient way to sponsor me: Five Talents UK gets your money faster and, if you’re a UK taxpayer, Justgiving makes sure 25% in Gift Aid, plus a 3% supplement, are added to your donation.

So please sponsor me now!

Thanks

Fletch

	Donation by Gifty and Sharon 28/09/08	£15.00
	is that the end of your mid life crisis? Donation by Tim Irwin 23/09/08	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Donation by Mashudu 21/09/08	£10.00
	That's why I left the country Donation by Toby Jenner 20/09/08	£50.00
	Well done! Donation by Conrad 07/09/08	£45.00 + £12.69 Gift Aid
	Well done on your jump - great photos! Donation by Eulogy 04/09/08	£50.00
	well done David I'm well impressed! Donation by pete hoban 03/09/08	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	DF paid in cash Donation by pansy 31/08/08	£10.00
	DF paid in cash Donation by Soma, Simon and Margaret 25/08/08	£50.00
	Rather you than me! Congratulations. Donation by Bob 22/08/08	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	Amazing! Good luck from us all. Donation by Dodd family 21/08/08	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Enjoy it, express yourself, etc Donation by RKelly 21/08/08	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good Luck Fletch! Donation by SJ 20/08/08	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Race you to the bottom! Donation by Loraine 19/08/08	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	'..out of a perfectly good plane!' - what lifestyle group would be foolish enough to do that? Donation by Gideon 19/08/08	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	When you hear brace, brace........good luck! Donation by Cormac Loughran 19/08/08	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	What an amazing thing to do...enjoy!! Donation by Anne-Marie 19/08/08	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	So near but yet so so so so far Donation by Nicole S 19/08/08	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Good luck fletch! Donation by Tam 18/08/08	£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid
	don't forget to scream! Donation by sarah hen 18/08/08	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Jump! Jump! Jump! Donation by Stuart Bowden 18/08/08	£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid
	The only hard bit will be landing.....fingers crossed for you! Donation by Frances O'Neil 17/08/08	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Can't wait for both videos Donation by Nick Baughan 15/08/08	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Yikes not long till we jump!! See you in the pub after for a well needed pint! Donation by Jenny Eldridge 14/08/08	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Well, lets see what that adrenaline kick will do to you. - It might become a habit. Best of luck Donation by Birgit-Malene 14/08/08	£25.00
	wow ... can't wait to see you in "action" Donation by Fran Kennish 13/08/08	£20.00
	Hey, hopefully there will be a video to showcase at the next MediaLab Forum! Donation by Stephan Bruneau 13/08/08	£50.00
	Best of luck Fletch Donation by Andy Wasef 13/08/08	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Only if you succesgully complete your skydive without screaming! Donation by Sarah 12/08/08	£20.00
	It will be like a spider falling from the sky Donation by Stuie 12/08/08	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

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* Total raised online:	£1,810.00
Offline donations:	£530.00
Gift Aid plus supplement:	£344.10

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