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Joanna Hughes is raising money for St Elizabeth Hospice
In memory of My husband David Day
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St Elizabeth Hospice improves life for people with a progressive illness. Our work centres around individual needs, with specialist support, wherever required, at home, in the community or at the hospice. Each year the hospice needs to generate £12m, of this 70% comes from the local community.

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<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p> <p>To&nbsp;raise money for&nbsp;the St Elizabeth Hospice, who helped me care for my husband at home in the last week of his life, on 23rd July 2011&nbsp;I&nbsp;will be&nbsp;leaping into mid-air in a tandem sky-dive from a minimum of 10,000 feet!&nbsp; You might wonder why I would want to do this&nbsp;two days after my 65th birthday.&nbsp; The answer is because once you have been through something like the death of a much loved husband, you realise life is to be lived.&nbsp; I&nbsp;want to&nbsp;raise money for a charity as wonderful as the St Elizabeth Hospice at the same time as doing something that would make&nbsp;our five grandchildren proud of their old Gran.</p> <p>Am I afraid of heights?&nbsp; I will tell you after I have jumped!</p> <p>Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving &ndash; they&rsquo;ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they&rsquo;ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it&rsquo;s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</p>

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£1,334.00
+ £354.33 Gift Aid
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