TAKING THE PLUNGE: Volunteers complete skydiving challenge to raise £6k for Haven Centre for young people with learning disabilities and complex needs in Highlands
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A team of eight dauntless volunteers has raised almost £6000 for a pioneering centre being built in Inverness, by leaping out of an aircraft.
The skydive was in aid of the Haven Centre which will be Scotland’s first multi-purpose centre for young people with learning disabilities and complex needs.
The £4.1 million venture, led by the Elsie Normington Foundation, will include a specialist play centre, a community café, meeting spaces and garden plus three two-bedroom respite flats for adults up to the age of 30.
The skydiving challenge was taken up by Julie Flett, Deb Humphries, Anna Malinawska, Chloe Ironside, Robyn Weir, Siobhan Haggerty, Erin Murdoch and Scott Halkett and took place at the Paragon Skydiving Club at Errol Airfield in Perthshire.
Rona Matheson, community fundraiser for the Haven Appeal, said there was a mix of great excitement and fear beforehand.
She added: “The most used expression on landing back on ground after their jump from 10,000 ft was ‘amazing – what a feeling’.
“We want to thank all the Paragon team who really did help to put everyone at their ease and give the brave tandem fundraisers an experience of a lifetime.”
More volunteers are being invited to sign up for another skydive later this summer.
The centre is being built at a site in Murray Road, Smithton.
Potential of Haven Centre in Inverness inspires fundraising
