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Claire's Skydive

Claire Tobin is raising money for Young Lives vs Cancer
“Claire Coysh's fundraising”

on 26 August 2011

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Story

<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Hello all my lovely people!!</span></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">To mark&nbsp;coming to the end&nbsp;of&nbsp;my&nbsp;doctorate&nbsp;I thought I'd throw myself out of a plane!!</span></strong></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Actually I think I'll have to be pushed, and thankfully I will be strapped to an instructor who will force me out as this is gonna be scary!!!</em></span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;">I will be doing a tandem dive from at least 10,000 feet on 24th September in Exeter.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;">I've run for </span><span style="color: #993366;">CLIC Sargent </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">before but thought I should&nbsp;up the stakes and do something I never&nbsp;imagined myself doing!&nbsp;It's not only a once in a lifetime experience for me (unless I happen to love it and decide to keep&nbsp;risking death!)&nbsp;but a chance to raise money for such a worthy&nbsp;charity and I hope you can help me out!&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;">My family have always supported </span><span style="color: #993366;">CLIC Sargent, the UK's leading cancer charity supporting children&nbsp;and their families through cancer, <span style="color: #0000ff;">and y</span></span><span style="color: #0000ff;">ou've all helped me lots before that I'm sure has been really valuable, so PLEASE give for</span>&nbsp;<span style="color: #993366;">CLIC!</span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;">I have to raise at least &pound;395 so anything you can give will be very gratefully received so that hopefully I can get way past this so there's more to help children and their families.&nbsp; If you see me and can give me cash that would be helpful as I have to give a certain amount of money on the day to the airfield, THANKS!!</span><em><span style="color: #0000ff;"> </span></em></p> <p><em><span style="color: #0000ff;">And&nbsp;if anyone's around and wants to laugh at me being scared out of my mind feel free to come and watch! ;-)</span></em></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Thanks so much!</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Lots of loving</span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Claire</span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;">(aka Claire the Bear, aka Coyshy, aka Big C, aka Dr Coysh!)</span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;">:-) </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</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> <p>So please dig deep and donate now.</p>

Donation summary

Total
£270.00
+ £40.00 Gift Aid
Online
£160.00
Offline
£110.00

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