Skydiving grannies, 85 and 75, plummet to Earth for good cause

By Isobel Williams

This is the moment two adventurous grandmas jumped from a plane to raise money for their care home.

Joan Small, 85, and Liz Lord, 75, made their bold jump from the skies on Sunday (September 14) in a fundraising effort for their care home in Banstead, Surrey .

The duo was asked if there was anything that they wanted to do to assist fundraising efforts, and Joan came up with the idea of a skydive , which they say staff had thought was a joke.

However, months later, the ladies were seen diving 15,000 feet through the sky into a field, with huge smiles on their faces.

Joyous footage from the day shows the merry grans landing on the grass as onlookers cheer them on.

Liz, who is originally from Australia, said: “We both have had good lives but at our ages it was an