{"id":48081,"date":"2023-06-15T22:12:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=48081"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:12:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:12:28","slug":"verwood-ladies-go-skydiving-to-raise-money-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/2023\/06\/verwood-ladies-go-skydiving-to-raise-money-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Verwood ladies go skydiving to raise money for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A duo from a Verwood care home have been skydiving to raise cash for charity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Emilia Turner and Rachelle Phillips from Verwood House care home jumped out of a plane thousands of feet in the air \u2013 and all for a good cause.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAnd the courageous pair have already raised \u00a31,106 for the charity Refuge.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe charity is the largest specialist domestic abuse organisation in the UK and supports thousands of people including children, facing domestic violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sky.HANDCAM-GH010165-1-1020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sky.HANDCAM-GH010165-1-1020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sky.HANDCAM-GH010165-1-1020.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sky.HANDCAM-GH010165-1-1020-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sky.HANDCAM-GH010165-1-1020-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sky.HANDCAM-GH010165-1-1020-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sky.HANDCAM-GH010165-1-1020-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rachelle said: \u201cPeople have been incredibly generous, and we are thrilled to have had all the support and encouragement. Thank you to those who have donated to our appeal through our JustGiving page.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cAll of the donations will make a big different to people\u2019s lives and it\u2019s lovely to see such generosity.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nEmilia added: \u201cNeither of us had done anything like this before but we wanted to find an exceptional way to raise this money for an incredible charity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an amazing experience, and I cannot say I was not scared but the initial few seconds before the jump were nerve-racking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Rachelle and I encouraged one another to make the jump.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cAnd of course, we were inspired by Refuge which is an excellent organisation and has been working for domestic violence victims since 1971. The work they do is sadly very necessary, but they are helping to rebuild lives every day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sky1.Unknown.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sky1.Unknown.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sky1.Unknown.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sky1.Unknown-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe tandem skydive was at Old Sarum and was organised through Skyline Events. The pair underwent a days\u2019 worth of training before jumping out of the aircraft in tandem with a qualified skydive instructor.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nEmilia added: \u201cI feel very lucky to work at Verwood House with such lovely residents and staff, and after the skydive adventure, I will be very happy to keep my feet on the ground \u2013 at least for the time being!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The daring pair have their JustGiving appeal open until August 26 and hope the donations will continue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sky5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sky5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sky5.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sky5-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A duo from a Verwood care home have been skydiving to raise cash for charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-48081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood","tag-verwood-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48087,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48081\/revisions\/48087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}