A PAIR of colleagues from a Monmouth nursing home have raised £1,000 for the Alzheimer’s Society by taking part in two sponsored parachute jumps.

Jessica Caine and Luke Barnett, who work on the marketing team at the Gibraltar Nursing Home, took to the sky on Sunday, August 5, from Dunkeswell Airfield in Devon.

Both of them jumped, strapped to their skydiving instructors, from an altitude of 15,000 feet, and reached speeds of 120mph.

Ms Caine, who had parachuted once before, said the views were incredible.

But for Mr Barnett, this was his first skydiving experience.

Prior to taking off, he admitted to being terrified of heights, preferring his feet planted firmly on the ground.

Shortly after landing, he said: “It was all over so quickly, I didn’t have time to be scared”

Their efforts raised enough money to pay for two years’ worth of clinical trials searching for an effective treatment for vascular dementia.