Newtown School Fundraiser

The school is organising a fundraising day in memory of Jack Beames who died at 22 from bone cancer.

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00:00I'm Jacqueline Beams, I'm Jack Beams' mum, who unfortunately passed from dope bone cancer

00:20in February this year, and he's one of his very good friends, Georgia, who's been here

00:26with us every step of the way, along the way the last two years or so.

00:29Excellent, and in regards to the sale, so everybody's wearing blue, is there a significance

00:33to it?

00:34Yeah, so Jack's favourite colour was blue, his lovely blue car is parked in the car park,

00:38and we just thought it'd make a nice change from red, and we could all come together and

00:41celebrate Jack, and also raise lots of money for bone cancer research, and Macmillan, who

00:46also supported us for the last few years.

00:49Excellent, and how much have you raised so far?

00:52We've got a running total, we're not sure how much our running total is, but we'll be

00:56sure to let you know.

00:57Georgia recently did a skydive as well, which your colleague reported on as well, which

01:02raised about £1400.

01:03Oh, excellent.

01:04For those of you in age cuts.

01:07And so, what does it mean to you?

01:09How do you feel, seeing this outcome, the heart shape?

01:12Newtown and all the family at Newtown have been very supportive for the last few years

01:15as well.

01:16Jack was very poorly and I was off work for a long time, and to know that they're all

01:20still thinking about us and thinking about Jack means an awful lot, and they've been

01:23really, really supportive, and I couldn't have asked for anything more.

01:25Especially raising awareness for cancer and how it does affect people like Helen, and

01:31like Helen's family.

02:20Finally, how did you feel when you saw the heart formation?

02:41Yeah, I did nearly lose it a little bit, but I got strong like Jack and dug the heels

02:47in and yeah, it was good.

02:48It was very emotional.

02:49It was very special.