A nasty accident involving a pitch fork has prompted a bunch of telecom engineers from Chippenham to jump out of a plane for charity.

Malcolm Tripp, needed the help of the Wiltshire Air Ambulance after an accident in 2014.

He was caught in a garden related injury which included a pitchfork and needed to be rushed to Southmead hospital in Bristol from Devizes.

Now he, and four colleagues have decided to brave the skies for a 15,000 foot skydive to raise some cash.

The five extremely brave volunteers are Chris Wilkes-Ciudad, Pete Reynolds, Finn Regan, George Dandridge and Greg Feehan will do the tandem dive on July 18th.

This will include freefalling for a full minute.

"I'm sure it will be one of the most exhilarating minutes of their lives which they wont forget in a hurry!" said BT's Hannah Chapman.

"We've always been strong supporters of Wiltshire Air Ambulance and when member of the BT Team was rushed to Southmead Hospital in Bristol from Devizes after a nasty leg injury we were shown their value first hand.

"We usually appeal to the team members appetite here in Chippenham by doing regular Breakfast Roll morning or Bake Sales but due to current regulations we sadly couldn't do that.

"This meant we had to make up for lost time and donations and take the leap to raise a fantastic £2,500.

"We sadly didn't get the opportunity to jump out of a plane for WWA in September like we hoped." she added saying the dive expert would need to be more than two meters away, rather than strapped to someone's back.

The dive crew have already raised more than £500 with various messages of support being posted on the Just Giving page.

"Good luck guys!" said Richard Hughes. "You have "Raised the Bar" as we only did a 10k feet jump. Just means you will have more time to enjoy the ride down and hope that your parachute opens! You will love it!"

Paula from Reading said: "Good lord, you are all braver people than I am - but a fantastic cause, has been used by my family, so yeah, amazing reason to jump!"

The jump is planned for July 18.