Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey visited a Christmas tree farm in Tewkesbury to highlight the work of young carers. He joined carers from Gloucestershire to load Christmas trees and discussed their charity single, Love Is Enough, created to raise awareness and funds. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00John, do you want to help us?
00:02You're going to get one of those, go on.
00:04Are you going to help me? Oh, you're right there.
00:06Anybody like to join me? There we go.
00:08We're here celebrating young carers, actually.
00:10We've got young carers from Gloucestershire
00:12helping us load up these
00:14wonderful Christmas trees.
00:16And it's part of our campaign
00:18to get number one at Christmas.
00:20We've released a single,
00:22Love is Enough, with a young carers choir
00:24working with the Bath Philharmonia.
00:26And my challenge to all your viewers,
00:28if you help us download
00:30lots of Love is Enough,
00:3210,000 downloads
00:34by next Friday,
00:36I'm going to skydive in the new year.
00:38I've done some mad things before, like bungee jumping,
00:40skydiving as well. Let's do that.
00:42I've got a team of people who dare me
00:44and then I dare them back.
00:46So I think it's this idea
00:48of basically trying to
00:50raise awareness of good stuff,
00:52whether it's our policies in the general election
00:54or young carers. I mean, the whole
00:56single Love is Enough
00:58was written by young carers, performed
01:00by young carers. And the whole idea
01:02is to say to people, don't forget
01:04young carers, be more aware of them.
01:06And we're trying to direct people to
01:08the Carers Trust website
01:10where you can put in your postcode
01:12and find the young carers project near you.
01:14And we're trying to raise money for young carers
01:16in the Bath Philharmonia who do
01:18amazing work with the young carers choir.
01:20On the count of three, we're going to give you a big push, right?
01:22One, two, three.
01:24That's quite a big push.
01:26Go on then.
01:28You got it? You're doing great.