Woman completes skydive to support charity that helps disabled children and adults

Emma Hartburn, a guardian of one of Enable Ability’s service users, has raised £718, including gift aid, to go towards the charity.

She had been fundraising for her tandem skydive since May and decided to take the challenge solo so that she could raise as much money as possible.

The decision to raise money for the charity comes as her grandson uses the Portsmouth based service and she said that the work they do has significantly helped him.

Originally booked in to jump from 10,000 ft on August 6, she was the only person in the plane jumping from 10,000ft and she decided to jump from 15,000ft up.

She added: ‘I was booked for the lower height of 10,000ft, but as I was the only skydiver in the plane booked to jump from that height, the crew decided to chuck me out with the others.

‘I’d do it all over again.’