HCPT volunteers in the Midlands, along with some HCPT staff and I, are coming together on Sunday 24th September to raise money through a sponsored skydive.

We'll all be jumping out of a plane somewhere in deepest Cambridgeshire, each of us strapped to an expert (a "tandem" skydive).

Money I raise will be spent on giving local disabled and disadvantaged children the holiday of a lifetime. Children travelling with HCPT Group 215 in Leicester will benefit. I'm paying the skydive registration fee myself so 100% of your donation would go to benefit the children in the group.

I'm very risk averse and I don't do many daft or dangerous things for charity (the last one being a firewalk nearly 10 years ago). Only last summer, on holiday, I refused to jump off a tiny pier into the water with the rest of my family. I also don't do rollercoasters.

So it's going to be a battle for me to jump out of that plane :( - I hope you can sponsor me!