A Barrhead man has raised cash for Paisley's revered Accord Hospice by leaping out of an aeroplane.
Alastair Crae was one in all a variety of courageous individuals from Renfrewshire and additional afield who signed up this yr for a tandem skydive in help of the Hawkhead charity.
He did the skydive on Saturday, July 16 and has raised an unimaginable whole of greater than £2,100 to this point.
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Alastair, 60, is the director of Finance and Governance at Accord, stated: “It was my sixtieth birthday, we will name it a particular birthday, and I felt that, at that age, I didn’t actually need any presents.
“I knew Accord was organising a skydive as a part of its fundraising for the yr and I believed it was a really perfect alternative to place the 2 collectively and ask household and buddies to donate as an alternative of me getting presents.”
Alastair isn't any newcomer to doing issues that many would somewhat keep away from. He defined: "These sorts of issues have a tendency to not faze me. I get pleasure from a little bit of a problem.
I had already executed a few occasions for Accord together with an abseil from the Finnieston Crane and a zip-wire throughout the Clyde - so this was the following step up from these occasions.
“The entire expertise of diving out of a small aircraft from 10,000ft within the air was nice and I’d definitely advocate it to anybody who hasn’t thought of it earlier than.
“It was a bit unlucky that it began to rain simply as I jumped however that didn’t spoil issues an excessive amount of. I used to be properly supported on the bottom by a number of relations together with my mum and pa.
“On behalf of Accord I’d additionally prefer to thank the opposite individuals who have accomplished the skydive to this point and have all raised important sums of cash for us.”
David McFadden, fundraising and communications supervisor at Accord, stated: “‘An enormous thanks to Alastair and every of our Skydivers who took half within the occasion, an unimaginable feat achieved by every of them.
“An exceptional effort to help these in our care – every pound raised goes to assist sufferers and their households at a number of the most troublesome instances – with out your donations we merely couldn’t present the absolute best care to the group, freed from cost.
“Thanks to everybody who took half or donated.’’
The donations are for the ACCORD hospice which supplies help for these needing palliative and finish of life care in Renfrewshire and elements of East Renfrewshire.
If you need to donate cash for ACCORD, you may nonetheless go to Alastair’s JustGiving web page to make a donation right here: https://bit.ly/3Sgs2qi
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