9 brave Islanders are to ‘Jump for Joy’ from 10,000 feet at the beginning of August in aid of Dementia UK Admiral Nurses.
With jumps planned for 3rd-5th August (weather permitting), Czara-Lee Anderson, Rachel Cohen, Alex Hearn, (along with her daughter Rose and son Woody, her sister Fiona and her son Archie), Nicola Sard and Hannah Wilson will be strapping into parachutes for their breath-taking skydives down to Sandown Airport.
The 9 hope to raise much-needed funds to ensure that more Dementia UK Admiral Nurses can be available for Islanders with memory loss. Admiral Nurses are specialist dementia nurses who visit, in their homes, those with memory loss; caring not only for their patients but for their carers, who are often their closest relations.
Catherine Flury, Chair of the Island’s Fundraising Committee for the charity, has said:
“I hugely admire our ‘jumpers’ and cannot thank you enough for doing this in aid of Dementia UK’s Admiral Nurses.
“It is my ultimate wish to have more of these amazing nurses on the Island working in the community, helping families and carers of those experiencing all forms of dementia. Our demographic is such that we urgently need these nurses here.”
Lady Grylls, President of the Dementia UK Admiral Nurses IW Appeal, adds:
“I am hoping that a company or individual will volunteer to fund the annual salary of a Dementia U.K. Admiral Nurse to be hosted at Mountbatten. Alongside their life-threatening conditions many people looked after at the Hospice also have dementia”.
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If you wish to sponsor these very brave souls on their skydive for Dementia UK Admiral Nurses IW, there are sponsorship forms at Hannah’s shop ‘Sweets and Treats’ in Cowes High Street (close to the bottom of Market Hill) or at Czara’s shop, Sandown Dental Practice and at ‘Her Whey’ in Cross Street in Ryde. Or you can sponsor Hannah online at https://gofund.me/9f19e314.
