A YOUNG Wellington woman has raised £1,600 for eating disorder charity Beat – with more than a little help from her grandmother.

Emily Summers, 18, and gran Jean Hore, 73, made a 15,000 feet parachute jump at Dunkeswell Airfield.

It was Emily’s way of saying thank-you to the charity that helped her at a difficult time in her life.

She was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa in 2011 and the eating disorder has turned her own and her family’s life upside down.

It got so bad she spent a year as an inpatient unit two hours away from her home. She and her gran, who had made three previous parachute jumps, live at Foxdown Hill, Wellington.

Emily says she could not have tackled her condition without the support of her family, friends, hospital, the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service and Beat.

n More than 725,000 people in the UK of all ages and backgrounds have a diagnosed eating disorder.