Mrs 'Robocop's Charity Skydive
Discussion
Hi Folks,
I know its a bit cheeky and a lot of you wont have met Mrs RC yet, on Sat 26th my wife Kate reaches the milestone that is the big FOUR OH! To celebrate, she is doing a tandem skydive to raise money for The Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign.
Now Kate is not an adrenaline junky so this is no easy task, but its made even more odd in that she works as Cabin Crew - and spends her working life making sure people dont leave aircraft in this way!
She has decided to do this because we lost our close friend Rod earlier this year. Rod was diagnosed last year and the disease took and nasty turn in May leaving him just a few weeks to live. The hospital arranged for him to marry his long term girlfriend Rachel in hospital ... he died just five days later, three days past his 40th birthday.
The hospital were marvelous at looking after people with cancer and help them and their families deal with this terrible curse. So we would like to help them help others, and I have set up a Just Giving web site at
http://www.justgiving.com/kate40skydive/
So please, if you can, please help Kate raise as much as possible for this worthwhile cause. I have paid for the jump, so all donations go to the charity.
Thanks for taking time to read this.
Robo
(Simon) and Kate
[Mods - can you make this a wiki for a week or two please?]
I know its a bit cheeky and a lot of you wont have met Mrs RC yet, on Sat 26th my wife Kate reaches the milestone that is the big FOUR OH! To celebrate, she is doing a tandem skydive to raise money for The Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign.
Now Kate is not an adrenaline junky so this is no easy task, but its made even more odd in that she works as Cabin Crew - and spends her working life making sure people dont leave aircraft in this way!
She has decided to do this because we lost our close friend Rod earlier this year. Rod was diagnosed last year and the disease took and nasty turn in May leaving him just a few weeks to live. The hospital arranged for him to marry his long term girlfriend Rachel in hospital ... he died just five days later, three days past his 40th birthday.
The hospital were marvelous at looking after people with cancer and help them and their families deal with this terrible curse. So we would like to help them help others, and I have set up a Just Giving web site at
http://www.justgiving.com/kate40skydive/
So please, if you can, please help Kate raise as much as possible for this worthwhile cause. I have paid for the jump, so all donations go to the charity.
Thanks for taking time to read this.
Robo
(Simon) and Kate[Mods - can you make this a wiki for a week or two please?]
Chim & Matt - Thanks very much for your kind donation (esp as we have yet to meet I think 
)
Pints - that insult will cost you a tenner
.... just because you are bigger than me!!
Thanks for your support guys, forgot to mention its at Netheravon Airfield if your passing this Sat a.m.
Rgds
Robo
)Pints - that insult will cost you a tenner
.... just because you are bigger than me!!
Thanks for your support guys, forgot to mention its at Netheravon Airfield if your passing this Sat a.m.
Rgds
Robo
OK this is it .... we're off! Weather looks perfect for flinging yourself out of a perfectly good aircraft 
Wish Kate luck, and if you have not sponsored yet, please give it some thought as it's for a good cause (and we are less than £200 away from our target!). You can still give after the jump.
Rgds
Robo
Wish Kate luck, and if you have not sponsored yet, please give it some thought as it's for a good cause (and we are less than £200 away from our target!). You can still give after the jump.
Rgds
Robo
AngryApples said:
How'd it go?
SHE DID IT! Very proud of her! 
thanks Matt Fantastic day with perfect weather
Lots of help and encouragement 
from the Army Parachute lads (incl some Red Devils 
)CALM ON ARRIVAL
NO TURNING BACK NOW!
OMG!
COOL!
TOUCHDOWN!
[From Mrs RC] Thank you all very much for sponsoring me for this worthwhile cause, especially as I have yet to meet most of you - its very kind!
What a great bunch Pistonheads are ... thanks folks
Kate xxx
For those that still want to help this charity, the Justgiving web site will still be open for a while yet http://www.justgiving.com/kate40skydive/
Thanks Folks,
Robo
Edited by robocop on Monday 28th September 20:58
Edited by robocop on Tuesday 29th September 19:38
robocop said:
AngryApples said:
How'd it go?
SHE DID IT! Very proud of her! thanks Matt Fantastic day with perfect weather
Lots of help and encouragement from the Army Parachute lads (incl some Red Devils )OMG!
[From Mrs RC] Thank you all very much for sponsoring me for this worthwhile cause, especially as I have yet to meet most of you - its very kind!
What a great bunch Pistonheads are ... thanks folks
Kate xxx
For those that still want to help this charity, the Justgiving web site will still be open for a while yet http://www.justgiving.com/kate40skydive/
Fair play to you, I just soooooooooooooooo wouldnt have the guts!
ETA: FOLKS! - just £30 to meet Kate's target dig deep!
Edited by AngryApples on Wednesday 7th October 17:16
stigmundfreud said:
Robo will try to put something on the charity later if its still running. Nice one to the Mrs for having the balls to do it. I have to say though,how on earth did you pull? I mean seriously. Having met you, I need to know!
... and regarding the above - its not the first time she has been to heaven and back 
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