Skydiving for charity: Why 3 Surrey co. employees are doing Leap of Faith<\/p>\n
Published 12:45 pm Monday, June 29, 2026<\/p>\n
Three employees of a Surrey-based company are set to skydive for charity on Thursday, July 9.<\/p>\n
The annual Leap of Faith fundraiser for Cyrus Centre will involve Miles Gillespie, Maksym (Maks) Osaulenko and Eric Meyers of Companion Construction, on 66 Avenue.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe sponsored the event last year, but this is first year we have employees jumping,\u201d said Daniel Burslem, company owner. \u201cIt\u2019s a cause we believe in, and we\u2019re trying to raise $2,400.\u201d<\/p>\n
Held at Skydive Vancouver, Leap of Faith is Cyrus Centre\u2019s annual tandem skydive fundraiser, now in its 17th year. Every jump is made with a certified tandem instructor, and funds raised go toward supporting Home At Last, Cyrus Centre\u2019s transitional housing program for youth aged 16-24 in Abbotsford.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are jumping because no young person should have to do this alone,\u201d says a post on Companion Construction\u2019s fundraising page<\/a>. \u201cEvery day, youth in our community face choices no one their age should have to make: stay somewhere unsafe, sleep in a car, return to an unhealthy situation.\u201d<\/p>\n More details are posted on cyruscentre.com\/leap-of-faith<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gillespie is a first-time skydiver who says he\u2019s excited about his July 9 adventure in Abbotsford.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m a little nervous but I think it\u2019ll be pretty fun. I\u2019m happy to be involved, a cool opportunity,\u201d said Gillespie, a site supervisor for Companion.<\/p>\n The company recently renovated the BC Lions training facility in <\/a>Whalley<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skydiving for charity: Why 3 Surrey co. employees are doing Leap of Faith Published 12:45 pm Monday, June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-769660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}