Support our Lisa’s 13,000ft charity jump

Union Matters August 7 2017

Nottinghamshire postal worker Lisa McLernon is planning to jump from an aeroplane at 13,000 feet next month.

And her courageous leap will be to raise cash and awareness for four vitally important causes.

“I’m a first-time parachutist and a first-time fund-raiser,” she explains, listing Fibromyalgia Action UK, Alzheimers Research UK,Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust and Royal School for the Deaf, Derby, as her nominated charities.

The first of these – Fibromyalgia Action – is perhaps the least well-known and is a voluntary organisation focussing on assisting people with this chronic condition of widespread pain and fatigue.

“I have particularly chosen Fibromyalgia Action UK as I have a number of close friends who I see suffer this ‘invisible’ illness on a daily basis and I feel I need to help towards a cure,” says Lisa, who also highlights the “extremely valuable work” being done by the other three organisations she is supporting.

“As a CWU member, I really appreciate the union’s core values of sticking together and of helping others – and what better way of carrying this out in practice than to support these vitally important causes and helping them to do more.

“I’d greatly appreciate any support from my fellow CWU members, so if you can spare something, then please go towww.sponsorme.co.uk/lisamclernon and donate what you can.”

With just a few weeks until the big jump, at Langar in Nottinghamshire, Lisa is looking forward to the event with a mixture of excitement and a little nervousness, but she vows: “No backing out now!

“As I jump out of that plane i’ll be thinking of all the good work that will be done with your generous donations.