1. Doing stuff for charity makes me feel like a mini-superhero and I get a huge burst of energy from it.  
2. £2740 keeps Portsmouth's Research Centre of Excellence open for one more day
3. That's one more day Geoff Pilkington and his team can continue work on their pioneering blood-brain barrier model to identify drugs that attack brain tumours
4. That's one more day chemists can modify the structure of existing drugs or develop new tools to kill cancerous cells
5. That's one more day that could give someone with a brain tumour one day more

These are all great reasons to do a 100m abseil down Spinnaker Tower but that's not why I'm doing it... 

6. I'm doing it for Grandma 

Pat Farnell was a powerhouse. As a single mum to a young son, she started her own engineering business and won the Queen's Award for Industry - no mean feat in the 1960's. She was an active member of The Church At Perton and the Perton Charitable Trust and, as Brown Owl, her weekend Brownie and Guide camps were legendary - Disneyland Paris was a personal favourite. What made Pat different was her true joie de vivre, her generous spirit and her love for people. She could do more in 24 hours than most people could do in a week and she never sought recognition for it - she was almost embarrassed when she was highlighted as "Woman of the Year" by the local lions club in the early noughties.  

Pat had 4 heart attacks, beat breast cancer and carried on...then in 2006 the doctors found a brain tumour. She raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charities throughout her life -  from doing dance shows with her sister from the age of five, to sponsored walks, to folding raffle tickets for a Tombola stall two days before she died. On the 21st October it will be 10 years since she left our lives. I know if she was here she would be cheering me on whilst I abseiled down Spinnaker Tower saying "Why just £2740? let's get to £5,000, no let's make it £10,000! Come on, I'll do it with you!" So why is £2740 so significant? 

    7.  Raising £2740 allows me to dedicate a tile on the Wall of Hope at Portsmouth's Research Centre of Excellence in Pat Farnell's memory.  

Can you help me make that happen? Because I made a promise 10 years ago...  

As long as I live, she will live; As long as I live, she will be remembered.

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