Jump for Homerton

Alison Russell is used to making quick decisions as the coordinator for the maternity telephone helpline at Homerton Hospital.

But all her skills at thinking on her feet were pretty useless as her latest call for charity left her in for the high jump – thousands of feet above the ground.skydive allison russell wiith instructor

Alison was taking part in a tandem skydive, where she leapt from an aircraft attached to a more experienced skydiver.

Said Alison: “It took half an hour to train me for the jump but I felt I was in the air for half a day. One moment I was safely in an aircraft the next I was plunging hundreds of feet above Northants countryside. I was back at my desk at Homerton by lunch time with a daft grin on my face that I couldn’t get fid of for at least three days. And I raised £200 from colleagues for our department.”