Worth It 4 Charity: July 2015

Before we knew it we needed to start planning for Worthing Birdman 2014 but this time one of Damien's friends Paul Southwood uttered the words "I'll do it". Within a few minutes Damien had acquired the indemnity forms and Paul found himself signed up for Worthing Birdman 2014.

Helen and Damien had already decided to do Ghostbusters and Paul was happy to do this and promptly bought the Ghostbusters boiler suits and comedy inflatable proton packs. Helen customised an outfit to make a 'female Ghostbuster' outfit and Alice our Ghost had the comedy white sheet ghost thing going on!

The premier of the outfits was in an article for the local newspaper

Quite possibly the first time we had performed star jumps since being at school

The long and rather uphill walk to the Birdman platform

Paul and Damien had already decided they would do the infamous dance routine the from Ghostbusters II and along with a customised Ghostbusters Theme that included "Who ya Gonna Call Worthing?!" they were off.

I think this is what they class as dancing..

Enough Dancing boys, there seems to be a Ghost after Helen

will they help her?

No, The wimps ran away from the Ghost and ended up getting a little wet...

So Helen ended up tackling the Ghost but it was worth it in the end as we scooped 2nd Place and prize money of £250 which we added to our donation to Rockinghorse

We also raised 103.08 in the donation pots that our fundraising team were out and about with along Worthing Beach, we would like to thank Scott Miller, Victoria Murphy, Kerry Giles and Richard Hayes for your hard work on the day.

Further donations were made on our just giving page.

This year we raised a total of....£554.08

So we whizzed into 2013 and much planning was to be done once again, so many ideas buzzed around for our Worthing Birdman entry but we decided that this year we would be SUPERMAN!!
Well Damien was going to be Superman to be precise and he would be doing it in Henry 'underpants under tights' Cavill style.

Luckily with the help of the trusty internet we obtained a pattern of the 'Man of Steel' suit and tracked down a company who could put it onto fabric for us.

We also went to the Fabric Shop in Worthing to choose a fabric worthy of being the famous Red Cape of Superman.

Once all of this was obtained we turned to Carrie Ann White a local seamstress who was able to turn our pieces of fabric into a costume fit for a 'Man of Steel' or Damien in this case.

We had promotional posters made up by local artist/illustrator John Charman (who we also 'cast' as General Zod!)

And Rockinghorse sent this lovely lot to us to aid our fundraising

Next up we recruited some fundraisers and set up our annual 'just giving' page and we were delighted when the donations started to flood in, Damien was celebrating his 30th Birthday this year and opted that instead of gifts he would like those attending his birthday bash to donate to Rockinghorse via the 'just giving' page instead.

A few days before the Worthing Birdman event we went and had a look at the scaffold being erected ready for the big day

The actual day arrived and along with our trusty team of fundraisers including local florist Gail Byrne www.fairydustflowers.com and singer/songwriter Ian Markx

www.ianmarkx.com we set off for Worthing Beach

Gail Byrne, Ian Markx and Helen Charman rocking their Rockinghorse tops!

Damien aka Superman finds a couple of Minions!

The time for the jump came and Damien, John (General Zod) and Helen (Superman's damsel in distress!) did the long walk up the rather windy Birdman ramp. Unfortunately the cardboard car we had constructed was blown away due to the strength of the wind but we got through our routine and Damien prepared to take flight..when we say flight it was more epic falling....