Dare-devil Ed’s Sky-dive for a Worthy Cause To leap out of an aircraft the day after your last GCSE exam might not be on the top of the wish-list for most teenagers – (the day before your first one maybe!) However, when you feel so strongly about a volunteering organisation, whose work is aimed at supporting youngsters just like yourself and your friends, then, for sixteen-year-old, Bourne Academy student, Ed SabertonWard, it was just a question of ‘when’ rather than ‘if’.
of volunteers and who employ trained counsellors to support young people, aged between 11-16 years, facing emotional difficulties. Common problems which they encounter include family and relationship difficulties, issues regarding loneliness and anxiety, problems associated with low self-esteem and bullying, self-harm, abuse, addiction, distress through bereavement or loss, depression and difficulty with decision-making.
So, on Saturday June 16th, at Sibson Airfield, Ed undertook the perilous journey from uncertainty, through apprehension to eventual, total exhilaration, as he leapt from 10,000 feet, in order to raise over £500 in sponsorship. After his sky-dive, Ed was, for once, almost stumped for words as he tried to express just how brilliant the whole experience had been, (even the bit when his
Dare-devil Ed now has his sights set on charity firewalking and bungee-jumping next year, following his sponsored longdistance cycle ride for ‘Help 4 Heroes’ a few years ago.
mum hugged her baby, upon his landing with nothing broken! Ed is the youngest son of our publisher, Claire Saberton.) This much-needed money goes to The Young Peoples Counselling Service, a charity run by a dedicated committee
HEAR ANYTHING, ANYWHERE.
Would you like professional hearing care that is different, more experienced and more caring than others?
HOME VISITS AVAILABLE WAX REMOVAL SERVICE
INVISIBLE HEARING AIDS HEARING AID TRIAL
NEW
TECHNOLOGY
INVISIBLE
& COMFORTABLE
These new invisible hearing aids are as light as a feather and pack power far above their size and weight. They are so comfortable we guarantee you will forget you are wearing them. *on selected products
juLY 2018
Meanwhile, Ed recommends that you visit www.ypcs.uk to see just what motivated him to make such a dramatic leap into the blue.
Visit us and experience this ground breaking 360 degrees of sound. These hearing aids are so clever they scan the environment 100 times a second. Find out more without obligation, all over a cup of tea
INDEPENDENT family business FREE Hearing Assessment FREE aftercare 5 YEAR warranty* 5 YEAR FREE batteries* A LEADING CONSUMER SURVEY AWARDED Independent hearing specialists like SOUND ADVICE HEARING 5 GOLD STARS for choice, pricing & service.
GO Local. GO Independent. BE Happy! 1 Cross Street, Peterborough, PE1 1XA
Day Centre at J. Neville Opticians, 18 Broad St, Whittlesey www.soundadvicehearing.co.uk • Tel:
D I S C O V E R I N G
Wisbech
47