By Nicola Mott A VOLUNTARY youth worker from Bolton will be hoping to raise hundreds of pounds for a cancer charity when he takes part in a daring abseil - in memory of his grandad.

Lee Baldwin has decided to join in the Cancer Research Campaign's sponsored abseil down the Ramada Hotel, in Deansgate, Manchester, on Saturday, April 4. His grandfather, Mr Chezlaw Wrozek, who recently died of cancer, is the reason for Lee to take the plunge. Lee has been preparing for the big drop by practising abseiling on a smaller scale in the Lake District.

A voluntary worker at the Bolton youth support centres, Youthopia and Bypass, he is also busy organising outdoor activities for a group of unemployed people between the ages of 11 and 25.

Lee, with £200 worth of sponsorship already offered to him for the abseil, is already planning his next challenge which he hopes will be a sky dive in the summer.

He said: "It will have to be in the summer because I have to lose half a stone first. I need time to go to the gym."

All proceeds from both events will go towards helping the work of the Cancer Research Campaign.

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