A WOMAN raised funds for the British Heart Foundation by taking a leap of faith – and offering to do any job for £10 an hour.

Judy Mansfield, 57, collected more than £600 in a month during which she became a hand massager, a photographer, a radio presenter and even a fish tank cleaner.

The project came about when Mrs Mansfield, who was already giving 10 per cent of her earnings to the British Heart Foundation, tried to think of a way to raise additional funds.

Mrs Mansfield, who works as a celebrant for weddings, funerals and baby-naming ceremonies, said: “I don’t have a product I can sell, so I thought I’d sell myself.

“Scouts used to do something called Bob-a-Job. With inflation I had to change it. I called it A Task for a Tenner.”

Mrs Mansfield said she was offered a wide variety of tasks to complete for her money She said: “I cleaned the fish tank at a funeral home, worked at a beauty salon and gave hand and arm massages and worked for a florist one day delivering the bridal bouquets.’’

Mrs Mansfield was also hired as a guest presenter on the business programme of Banbury United’s radio station Puritans Radio. “That was great fun,” she said. “I’ve really enjoyed it.”

Mrs Mansfield’s husband, Russ, 59, who lives with her near Banbury, paid her £25 to pick up a week’s worth of waste left in the garden by their two dogs, Merlin and Jarvis.

And three of Mrs Mansfield’s friends, aware of her workaholic tendencies, gave her the hardest task of all – to do nothing.

She added: “It was even harder than the dog waste one.

“I don’t stop. I love what I do and I love my life. I live it at 100 miles an hour. So to sit still for 60 minutes was torture.”

Mrs Mansfield said: “I did it because people don’t choose to have a heart attack and because of the other side of my job.

“I’ve officiated too many funerals where people have died early because of heart disease.”

Rachel Davis, the fundraising manager for Oxfordshire at the British Heart Foundation, said: “It’s only thanks to people like Judy going above and beyond to fundraise for us that we’re able to continue our life-saving research.”