Friends ready to take the plunge for brave Kim
When a brave mum’s charity skydive was scuppered by a car crash two work colleagues stepped in to take the plunge.
Kim Allman had planned to throw herself from a plane in aid of Breast Cancer Awareness but two months ago she was seriously hurt in a car accident near her home in Baschurch, near Shrewsbury.
Kim, 50, Art Director at the K2 hair and beauty salon in Shrewsbury’s busy Darwin Shopping Centre, suffered a broken ankle, hip and kneecap and severe internal bruising in the crash two months ago.
She said: “I was driving home and there’s a bad bend in the road and it happened there.
“I still ache and I’ve only just been able to start physio so I couldn’t skydive which is a shame.
“My son, Joe Goddard, has done a lot for cancer research himself and I really wanted to do something different and this was my own adventure.”
She spent several days in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and is still in pain from her injuries and isn’t able to skydive so her place is being taken by two of K2’s stylists, Hayley (Terri) Pritchard and Georgina Hughes.
Hayley, 21, said: “It was really important to Kim and when she wasn’t able to do it we decided to step in and it is such a worthy cause.
“My aunt has had breast cancer and come through it so it is important to me. Phillip Minton, the owner of K2, used to make wigs for her when she had had chemotherapy.
“Thankfully she is better now and her hair is back but that shows how vital it is to support the charity and we do a lot here for cancer charities.”
Kim has lost two friends to breast cancer and she said: “They were very good friends and one of them died 20 years ago when she was very young and the other was only last year.
“I’ve worked for Phillip Minton at K2 for 32 years now and we used to cut and style the wigs for people who had had cancer. It’s really important for their confidence to look good and I used to enjoy doing that for them.
“This was really important too and I’m just disappointed I can’t do it but so pleased that Hayley and Georgina are going to take my place.”
Hayley, from Copthorne, Shrewsbury, who works in K2’s Newtown salon, admitted: “I’m not really looking forward to it but it will be an experience and something I can say I’ve done.
“We do need to raise some money for the flight first so Georgina and I are going to be doing some charity hair-cuts at the Bull In The Barn in Shrewsbury.”
Georgina, also 21, of Castlefields, Shrewsbury, is certainly up for it: “I go skiing and up on the ski lift so I’m not bothered about heights,” she said.
“I’ve seen sky-diving on the telly and it looks really good fun and it’s something that’s got to be done so the sooner the better. I definitely want to do it.
“Cancer is an awful disease but you can survive it and by doing this we could even help change some people’s lives.”
Russell Hall, Operations Manager for Darwin, Pride Hill and Riverside Shopping Centre, said: “We hope Kim is soon fully recovered but it’s brilliant that Hayley and Georgina have taken her place and it’s brave of them too.
“It’s a fantastic charity because breast cancer is something that touches so many people’s lives and so many of the people who work here in the Shrewsbury Shopping Centres give their time and effort to raise money for cancer charities.”
