THE sky was no limit for this plucky fundraiser as she threw herself into her charity mission.

Sian Davies, 24, of Wigginton, completed a sponsored skydive in aid of St Leonard’s Hospice in memory of her mother’s friend, Ruth Walgate.

Ruth and her husband Rick had left York for a life in the sun by moving to Rhodes, but less than two years later, without warning, the mother-of-two found a lump.

The shock discovery last November brought the couple back from Greece to York when Ruth was immediately admitted to hospital.

She was diagnosed with renal cancer but her tumour proved to be inoperable and Ruth died five months later on April 3. She was only 56.

Sian said: “The parachute jump was the perfect way to remember Ruth because she was a woman who lived life to the full.

“She was such a positive person and was always smiling.

“Before she died, I told her I wanted to do a parachute jump and she asked me to do it in aid of the hospice. I’m really grateful to everyone who supported me.”

Sian, a teaching assistant at the Joseph Rowntree School and a youth worker with the Young Groves in Lowther Street, was sponsored by Ruth’s husband, Rick, and by members of Rowntree Players. Her jump in the skies above Bridlington raised £450 for the hospice.

She said she had been petrified in the days running up to the tandem jump.

But she said: “It was absolutely amazing, such a wonderful experience. In the days before I kept saying that I must be mad and that people should never let me volunteer for this ever again, but I smiled all the way up and all the way down.

“My instructor was great as well, he was a real character and made the whole experience so good.”