A skydive featuring 22 people smashed a fundraising record for a Beaconsfield charity.

Nearly £19,000 has so far been raised for the Alexander Jansons Foundation following Sunday's jump, and with donations still rolling in the charity hopes to break the £20,000 barrier.

It's the highest amount that has been raised by a single event organised by the group, which was set up in memory of 18-year-old Alexander two years ago.

The teenager died while walking home to Penn with friends from a rare heart condition called myocarditis, and the charity was set up in his name to fund research into the condition.

Patricia Dean, manager of the Alexander Jansons Foundation, said: "It's been our best fundraiser to date.

"What was great was everybody was doing it together. The majority of people had never jumped before, and there was a feeling of experiencing it together - everyone had the charity's t shirt on.

"We were really pleased with the response we had from everybody, we had lots of comments from people on the different fundraising pages.

"We were giving prizes for the funniest comment written on Just Giving, and the most donations given to one page. Sometimes it's hard to get as many people as possible to donate to your page, so the more people you get the greater awareness it raises. One of the girls who jumped had someone donate their £2 pocket money to them."

For more information on the charity, including details of upcoming fundraising events, go to http://alexanderjansonsfoundation.org/.