Oswestry’s mayor will be braving a 100mph zip line to raise money for an important community building.

Mayor Mike Isherwood will be braving the “the world’s fastest zipline” on November 9 to raise money for groups to be able to use Oswestry Memorial Hall.

“The idea came about because my wife did  it quite a few years ago and she raised money hope house,” said Mr Isherwood. “I wanted something challenging and as I am afraid of heights, I thought it’s something I won’t find easy to do.

“If I ever have to do anything at height like go up a ladder or anything like that it makes me very nervous, and I feel quite dizzy.

“It’s my one year as mayor, it will never happen again, what better excuse to raise some money for charity and challenge myself and really do something I would not normally ever volunteer to do.

“Once I said I’d do it, I have to go through with it – there’s no backing out.”

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The Velocity zipline based in Penrhyn Quarry is described as “not being for the faint of heart” being the longest in Europe and thought to be the fastest in the world – reaching speeds of over 100mph.

Mr Isherwood has set a goal of raising £2,000 to raise money for the hall so more groups can have access.

“The Memorial Hall is there as an asset for the whole community to use but over the years it has been quite under used really, said Mr Isherwood.

“Paul Newman is really trying to increase its value really. They have Aico helping them out with a refurbishment of the main room which is starting next week.

“I wanted to help raise money that will directly help local community groups to use the hall even if they don’t have the money to hire it.

“There are a lot of groups out there that are trying to support various causes like groups for people with autistic children to groups for Ukrainian guests but they don’t always have members who can afford to pay and so their funds are limited.

“I know that Paul always tries to help them out and works on rates and lets groups have space for free because he just wants the hall to be used.

“I thought if I can raise money that would help a really wide range of groups in the community.”

You can donate to Mr Isherwood’s fundraiser here