A Lichfield grandmother has revealed she has no plans to pack in her charity fundraising events.
Pamela Towle, 75, has been raising money for charities since her husband Alan passed away from prostate cancer in 2004.
She has raised money for the Royal Marston Hospital, National Kidney Research, Guide Dogs for the Blind and the NSPCC.
She said: “I’ve no plans to stop raising money for charities just yet.
“Over the years I have raised a lot of money for good causes. You have to be careful at my age, but I still have a lot of things that I want to do.
“I got involved after my Alan passed away. My son, who was working in Birmingham at the time, asked me to abseil off the Hagley Road – it led my daughter to say that her mother had flipped!
“I’ve always done things like this. When I was 10-years-old I used to jump of a 25 foot diving board into an eight foot pool of water.
“I know a lot of people in Lichfield, and they jokingly say – ‘what dangerous thing are you going to do next?’
“But it’s important to raise money for charity, to ensure that the funds go to those who are most in need. The Nepal earthquake proves that man can’t beat nature.”
Pamela has lived in Lichfield since 1981 after moving to the city from Nottingham.
And she admitted that both she and her husband fell in love with their new home.
“Alan always said he would like to live in Lichfield,” she said. “We moved from Nottingham because he had got a new job with a fruit machine company in Wolverhampton.
“Alan was a dancer. He was a silver medalist at the dancehall in Nottingham – he was that good. If we weren’t dancing then we would go to the cinema.
“We travelled round Europe together. I remember saying to Alan when my mother died that I wanted to go to Rome, and we did that and threw the three coins into the fountain.
“I passed my driving test when I was 42, but I couldn’t afford to run a car and go on holiday, so my holidays took priority.”
