Members of the Brierley Hill and Kingswinford branch had highflying ideas for fund raising, for John Stoker, a branch committee member, persuaded some of his friends to make a sponsored parachute jump.

When all the jumpers had their feet firmly on the ground once more, and all the money had been collected in, £400 had been raised. A similar event on Bodmin Moor, undertaken by nine young people, raised £150 for the Mevagissey branch, Cornwall..