CHILDREN from New Earswick Primary School’s Blooming Kids Gardening Club have raised hundreds of pounds for the Special Care Baby Unit at York Hospital.
During Healthy Schools Week, all classes in the school were given £5 to invest in a fundraising activity for the unit in support of the Jowett family, whose daughter attends the school, after their baby Gracie Mae died.
Her father, Stuart Jowett, took on the Lake District 24 Peaks Challenge earlier this year to raise money for the unit.
The classes held bake sales, toy sales and sold fruit kebabs and fruit cocktails to raise a total sum of £360.
The three-year-old Blooming Kids Gardening Club, which has about 25 members, sold planters and hanging baskets to parents and staff, as well as tomato and pumpkin plants, to raise £200 of the total.
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