Funeral director skydives for North London Hospice (From Times Series)

Funeral director skydives for North London Hospice

12:50pm Monday 6th September 2010 in

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AN UNDERTAKER from East Barnet has raised more than £1,100 for the North London Hospice through a sponsored skydive.

Bradley Baxter, 24, who works for the Churchill Family Funeral Directors in East Barnet Road, said his job had inspired him to make the 13,000ft jump for the charity.

He said: "We deal with the North London Hospice quite a lot and that is why I chose that charity to do this for. My grandad died from cancer in 1998."

Mr Baxter, who now lives in Cuffley and who also completed a charity skydive last year, made the jump from an aeroplane over Cambridgeshire last Wednesday, having taken off from the North London Skydiving Centre in Wimblington.

He free fell at 180mph for one-and-a-half minutes before launching his parachute. All the money he raised through sponsorship will go to the North London Hospice in North Finchley.

He added: "It's an absolutely amazing feeling - the experience was fantastic, really a once in a lifetime. I was a bit nervous - but it was for a good cause."