Student Nancy Watts is quite cool about her parents being terrified when she leaps 10,000 feet from a plane: “I’ll phone them when I’ve landed.”

Her Maidstone mum and dad can’t bear to witness the jump above Headcorn on Monday, August 19, which is aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust.

“My mum especially is petrified,” says Miss Watts, 19, of Queens Road. “But I’m very much looking forward to it and am quite excited.”

Nancy, studying psychology at Southampton University, has never sky-dived before.

But she has witnessed the trauma of cancer.

Her mother, Amanda, once had the disease, and she lost an uncle and a friend to it.

She said: “It’s a horrible illness, and I just want to do something about fighting it.”

Miss Watts has also previously raised money for Cancer Research UK by taking part in a race with sister Emily and their mum.

“I’ll probably have jelly legs when it’s time to jump, but I’ll be falling attached to an expert sky-diver.

“After that, it will be off to the pub for a nice cool glass of rose.”