Of the various ways that you can raise sponsorship for charity, perhaps one of the most challenging and exciting is to skydive for charity. This represents a major challenge for many people, but especially those that have a fear of heights or flying. With enough sponsorship pledges, it is possible to jump for free and there is a choice of skydiving techniques that you can enjoy.
The most common for of skydive for charity is the tandem dive. This means that your harness is attached to that of your instructor who is not only a skilled skydiver but qualified in tandem jumping. You will require less instruction than with other forms of skydiving because your instructor is responsible for the landing and can be responsible for deploying the main canopy.
For those students that want to get more involved or have perhaps taken on the challenge of a tandem skydive before and wish to take on an even greater challenge, there are two other types of skydive for charity that can be undertaken. These are the static line and accelerated free fall jumps. Both do require longer training sessions before the student can make their jump but this is because they have greater control over landing and canopy deployment.
Choosing a charity is an important step. Not only should it be a charity that you consider worthy but one that offers the help and guidance that you will need while trying to arrange such a challenge. Some charities have strong relationships with skydiving companies and will even arrange for the payment of your jump fees assuming that you receive enough of a sponsorship figure to make it worthwhile – you should expect to have to raise around £400 to enjoy this benefit.
There are few stipulations regarding people that want to skydive for charity but you should expect to have to meet a minimum sponsorship level to make it worthwhile for the charity and skydiving centre to offer the jump. For a once in a lifetime experience (unless you choose to go again, of course), skydiving is the ideal choice.
Looking to skydive for charity? St Mungo’s is a charity that bids to end homelessness and needs the help of generous donators and those willing to take the challenge of skydiving to help raise money.