{"id":14447,"date":"2026-05-28T22:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/?page_id=14447"},"modified":"2026-05-28T22:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:20:57","slug":"henrys-skydive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/news-and-events\/henrys-skydive\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry&#8217;s skydive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday 24th April 2026 Henry Ibberson completed a freefall tandem skydive which was sponsored in aid of Kidney Care UK and Village by Village, both charities dear to Henry&#8217;s heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having reached a certain milestone (his 80th birthday) he decided he wanted to do something to make a difference. Reprising something he and his wife, Liz, did in New Zealand with Jill, their daughter, 24 years ago He planned to do a freefall tandem skydive once more, but this time for charity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was completed safely and he has so far raised over \u00a35,000 (plus over \u00a31,000 in gift aid) for the two charities. More details are on the <a href=\"https:\/\/givewheel.com\/fundraising\/13609\/whats-henry-up-to-now\/\">givewheel fundraising page<\/a> (on which donations can still be made).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A video including the skydive is below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/www.pattingham-ringers.org.uk\/images\/main_videographer.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday 24th April 2026 Henry Ibberson completed a freefall tandem skydive which was sponsored in aid of Kidney Care UK and Village by Village, both charities dear to Henry&#8217;s heart. Having reached a certain milestone (his 80th birthday) he decided he wanted to do something to make a difference. Reprising something he and his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/news-and-events\/henrys-skydive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Henry&#8217;s skydive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":165,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14447","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14449,"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14447\/revisions\/14449"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}