16th February 2014, I will be jumping from 14,000ft in Swansea to raise money for the Follow Your Dreams charity.

Follow Your Dreams is a national charity operating in England and Wales that inspires children and young people with learning disabilities to follow their dreams.

Having three brothers is always difficult, and having two with autism can be a burden on anyone, including myself, my parents and my other brother. However, they have helped me learn exceptional skills and have taught me to be more tolerant, considerate and I feel are a blessing to our lives.

For that reason, I want to give something back. Joey, my second brother, 14, attends Ashgrove School in Penarth where he's progressed greatly and continues to do really well. Follow Your Dreams regularly provide workshops for the students there; my brother participated in a workshop based on cartooning which helped him discover his aspiration to draw cartoons himself. He also took part in a national singing competition which helped show him his talents and got him thinking about his hobbies.

He's doing great and hope he follows his dreams of being a cartoonist, he can definitely do it!

I hope that by raising money, it can provide schools like Ashgrove with these workshop opportunities and help teach children with learning disabilities like my brother to follow their dreams.

Many thanks for reading, I hope you can help me raise money for this fantastic charity!

 

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2nd March 2014 Update:

Hi all!
I managed to finally do my skydive! t was an incredible experience, thank you all so much for the donations! It was an absolutely exhilarating opportunity that I can't even express in appropriate words! Definitely a test on myself but a huge challenge for my dad who has been trembling this whole experience, I've been so grateful for Mum and Dad for letting me have this opportunity!

The skydive company were fantastic and very professional, the crew definitely had a great collective experience and I felt very safe in their care.

The charity have been equally amazing, special thanks to Merv who has helped Mum and myself a lot with all the admin stuff!

I'm really proud to have raised loads for charity, it's been a great experience (I'm not sure how quick I'd do it again!) and I'm so glad to be raising money for such a worthwhile charity. I hope they continue to help Joey and other children of his disability.

Many thanks to you all for the sponsorship XXX