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Glasgow Clyde College Students Fundraises for Brightest Star and Laurens Life Lines.

A charitable group of students from the Events and Management course at the Glasgow Clyde College took it upon themselves to use an event opportunity to raise money for Glasgow based charities.

The group worked together over several weeks to prepare the one day event to raise funds and awareness of Lauren’s Life Lines and Brightest Star.

Organiser of the event and student Demi Graham, 16, or Barrhead high school, which is in partnership with the college’s Events and Management course said: “We had to put on an event for our course. So we all decided that the money we got from it should go to charity.

“The charities mean a lot to us as we know how our members of the course have felt through difficult times.

“We chose them [the charities] because Kyle and Chelsea are connected to them.

“Kyles little cousin is Lauren from Lauren’s Life Lines and Chelsea her little cousin sadly passed away and Brightest Star is a charity that helps parents get through their loss.”

Brightest Star is a local Glasgow charity that was set up to support bereaved families who have suffered from the loss of a child. The charity was founded by Arlene Clark and Derek Kennedy after the tragic loss of their only so, who died in their arms only six days before his sixth birthday.

The charity started by making teddy bears for children who are ill in hospital, so that they would never have to be alone, and now offers support nights to help grieving parents though their loss, and further offer online support groups, forums and email support.

Lauren’s Life Lines is a charity based in Paisley, the idea of which came from eight-year-old Lauren Cosgrove, who relies on artificial nutrition. Lauren’s family wanted to help other patients at Yorkhill hospital who also suffer from the same conditions as she does. Her family decided to set up a family fund with Yorkhill Children’s Charity, which they named Lauren’s Life Lines after their brave daughter. Through this charity the family helps other patients with similar conditions as Lauren, as well as providing support services to family’s to help them through what can be a difficult and devastating experience.

The students held a fundraiser which included a bake sale, selling cupcakes; a costa cake in the design of a football pitch and other tasty baked goods as well as a charity football match, asking for a £2 donation for tickets to watch the game. They were given resources from the charity Brightest Star to help promote the event. They raised a total of £255 for the charities.

Demi said: “We haven’t given them [the charities] the money yet as we are still sorting it out as we used resources and such from Brightest Star so they have to get more of the money.”
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