INVERCLYDE people contributed generously to a Bute charity which provides holiday accommodation for young cancer sufferers and their families.
Calum’s Cabin supporters received £2,209 from Tesco Greenock customers during one day of bag-packing.
Caroline Speirs of the charity described the figure as ‘absolutely fantastic’, and said it would help to provide breaks for more people.
She said: “It’s one of the largest amounts we have ever raised in a single day, and we are very grateful to the people of Inverclyde for their support.”
The charity is named after Mrs Speirs’s son, Calum, a Rothesay boy who lost his fight for life little more than a year after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.
Brave Calum, a first year pupil at Rothesay Academy, died peacefully at home in February 2007. The holiday cabin was his idea.
It costs around £650 a week to provide accommodation, and last year 125 families were able to use it.
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