#barbara willbye

What an amazing accomplishment leaping off a mountain on a tandem paraglide when you are absolutely terrified of heights ….. well this is what Barbara Willbye did for Tulips and raised a staggering 12,168.50TL plus £885 GBP (x 7TL = 6,195TL) Totalling 18,363.50TL!!!

As Barbara has said, there are so many people to thank but firstly she would like to thank Highline Tandem Paragliding for donating the jump free of charge.

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Barbara being led to the jump area by Ozgur of Highline Tandem Paragliding

Barbara and delighted husband, Kevin

Barbara would also like to thank her husband, Kevin, who has supported her every step of the way during her fears for this challenge and he has donated what the cost of the jump would have been to her fundraising cause.

BRT have proved a wonderful support by inviting Barbara to both the Radio and TV for interviews plus sending a film crew to the landing site to film her descent, thank you to all involved.

Engin Dervish of BRT Vox Pop, with Barbara and Ozgur

Without a doubt there is a huge thank you to everyone who donated, there are so many that we physically cannot list you all but you know who you are and Barbara thanks you all from the bottom of her heart. The support and encouragement of you all helped drive her on and the amount that you all raised is beyond her wildest dreams.

Needless to say that Barbara is not going to do this jump ever again!

Sue Tilt

0542 854 8714 Tulips/ Help Those With Cancer Association (Kanser Hastalarina Yardim Dernegi)

There are some folk who are real heroes and heroines and here in Northern Cyprus from time to time we have come across them. One such heroine is Barbara Willbye who has suffered from cancer and, although still on the road to recovery, she refuses to let this hold her back and continues to raise donations through challenges for Tulips, Help Those With Cancer Association.

Photos courtesy of Özgür Gökaşan, Highline Paragliding

So on Wednesday 25th September she did the great leap of faith from the Girne Mountain on a  tandem paraglide with Özgür Gökaşan of Highline Paragliding to land in Karaoğlanoğlu and be greeted by family and friends and Engin Dervish of BRTK who recorded an interview with Barbara for his forthcoming Vox Pop TV show.

Photos courtesy of Engin Dervish, BRTK

We asked Barbara about her experience and this is what she had to say.

“Thank you, Chris, for your support and I am not going to kid you as I am terrified of heights.  I was a total ‘woos’ and  terrified is probably the best word to describe the experience and I was so pleased to get my feet back on the ground.”

In publishing this article we would like to thank Pam Schofield, Engin Dervish and Özgür Gökaşan for use of some of their pictures to show our readers what a wonderful and exciting experience Barbara Willbye had in her quest to help others.

Photos courtesy of Pam Schofield

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We have seen in the past what Barbara will do for Tulips when she had her hair transformed into many different colours.  Personally I thought it looked lovely. 

Since then Barbara has battled with cancer and is now on the road to recovery and has decided to put herself up for a personal challenge, again to raise much needed funds for Tulips.   She is one brave lady and deserves a lot of support in this major feat so if you can sponsor her she will be eternally grateful for whatever you can afford.

BARBIE’S CHALLENGE

” As many of you are aware I have been very quiet over the past 18 months due to illness, thankfully with the support of my husband, family, friends, doctors/oncologist and Tulips (Help those with Cancer) I am on the road to recovery and hopefully raising lots of money for my favourite charity TULIPS who are in desperate need of funds.

As all those who know me are aware I am terrified of heights, so badly that there was about a 5 year period that I could not drive to Lefkosa without a panic attack and had to stop driving there. I have always sworn I would never paraglide off the mountain even for Tulips! I think I have lost my marbles, but it is with great trepidation that I have decided if I can raise enough money through sponsorship I will make that jump.

Highline Tandem Paragliding have very kindly agreed to donate a tandem paraglide to me to raise funds for Tulips, which is very generous offer and for that I thank them very much, my dear husband can cough up what it would have cost and sponsor me, thank you Kevin.

Now I need to ask for you all to please dig deep and sponsor me on this torture that I am going to endure and help to make my sacrifice worthwhile (and no I am not a drama queen).

The date has yet to be set but to ensure winds are at best it will be in September, can I ask you all to share this please so I can hopefully get as much sponsorship as possible.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, it is much appreciated. “

A Big New Year Thank You From Tulips

A Big New Year Thank You From Tulips

We have received the following news of great fund raising from Sue Tilt and Carole King of Tulips – Help Those With Cancer Association and would like to share it with our many readers.

  “Hi,

We have received a great sum of money from various sources this past week and would like your help in thanking everyone in relation to the following:

Pat Burns – Funeral

We have received the following thank you from Carole King and Sue Tilt of Help Those with Cancer Association (Tulips) and would like to add our own appreciation of the fantastic lengths someone will go to in order to support a charity, so well done Barbara, you are a star who shines and will keep on shining.

This is the thank you to Barbara from Carole and Sue.

Barbara Willbye is a well known supporter of Tulips/HTWCA having organised and has raised a lot of money for cancer patients in the past but this time she really has pushed the boat out!

Barbara and her husband, Kevin, have paid for Barbara to colour her hair in the brightest colours imaginable all for sponsorship for Tulips. The colouring, which took approx 7 hours to complete, took place on Monday 21st December at Chicago Hair Club with Barbara being absolutely delighted with the end result!

Barbara would like to thank the staff at Chicago Hair Club for all the work they put into creating this masterpiece including the sponsorship donation they handed over.

Whilst there are many of us that think we would like to attempt something like this, it takes a lot of nerve to actually go through with it and as such there are not enough ways in the world to express our thanks to Barbara for going that extra mile to raise a fantastic sum of 2,225TL with more pledges still to come in!

We are all on the edge of our seats waiting to hear what Barbara’s next challenge is likely to be.

The photos show how bright Barbara now is!