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Charity Founder to abseil Guy’s Hospital Tower for Action For Kids

by Ethos public relations

63-year-old daredevil, Sally Bishop, founder of national disability charity, Action For Kids, together with some of her fearless colleagues and a sell-out number of 35 brave supporters, will abseil down Guy’s Hospital Tower - the tallest hospital building in the world – on Saturday 12 March - to raise money for the charity.

Standing at 469 feet, Guy’s Hospital Tower is a very noticeable feature on the city's skyline and taller than the London Eye. It is also the highest structure in the capital that it is possible to abseil, making it one of the most exciting ways to raise valuable funds for Action For Kids.

Fundraising champion Sally, who set up the charity almost twenty years ago, certainly has a head for heights and is no stranger to danger after bungee jumping a few years ago for Action For Kids. However now, at the age of 63, she is gearing up for what might be her last daredevil challenge in her fundraising career.

“I am really looking forward to the abseil challenge,” Sally said. “With the support of my team at Action For Kids and the fantastic supporters, it promises to be one of the most exhilarating fundraising challenges we’ve done to date!”

“And, as it may well be the last time I agree to take on such an awesome, adrenalin pumping challenge, I am really going to make the most of it and raise as much as I can for Action For Kids.”

Action For Kids helps to support children and young people with physical and learning disabilities and their parents and carers across the country. Through its “Towards Independence” programmes, the charity helps disabled children, young people and their families lead more independent lives through the provision of specialist services such as: training in independent living skills and work related learning; a family support service; a national help line and much more.

The charity also provides disabled young people, up to the age of 26, with specialist mobility equipment, and an on-going maintenance program to keep wheelchairs working.

The equipment, which is provided on a permanent loan scheme, means that Action for Kids covers the cost of maintaining and servicing the wheelchairs on an ongoing basis, removing a major financial burden from families, the maintenance scheme has also recently been extended to cover privately-owned wheelchairs.

To sponsor Sally in the abseil, please visit http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/SallyBishop.

To find out more about Action For Kids and its work, please visit the website www.actionforkids.org.

To read other news from Action For Kids click here.

Posted at 25^th February 2011