Jack Reeve celebrates with classmates with the cheque for £112 raised by pupils at Hob Moor Junior School Picture: Paul Baker

Classmates of schoolboy Jack Reeve have pitched in to help pay for a new electric wheelchair.

Jack, aged ten, has cerebral palsy and has used a wheelchair all his life.

His parents, Alan and Pat, have been raising money to pay for an electric chair so he can get himself around, especially when he moves on to secondary school in a year's time.

Fellow pupils from Hob Moor Junior School have helped raise £112 for Jack by organising various activities in school and they have helped the family reach their fundraising target of £3,000.

Different groups of pupils organised events like Beat the Goalie and guessing the number of sweets in a jar.

Dad Alan, from Gale Lane, Acomb, said: "Jack's been in a wheelchair all his life.

"He started going one day a week to Hob Moor, then two, then he went full-time when he decided he could cope with it.

"Hob Moor have been brilliant. The children have been really nice. Jack was the first disabled person they've taken. They've bent over backwards for him - they've all been so nice."

Jack is in Year Five so will be starting secondary school next year.

Alan said: "We hope this chair will last him well into his teens. It will give him independence."

He said more thank yous were owed to his niece Julie Bell, who raised around £500 at a disco held at Holgate Working Men's Club, and to the Quaker Wood pub in Acomb Wood Drive.

The family also received generous donations from the York Children's Trust and from the Deanne Gee Memorial Fund.

janet.hewison@ycp.co.uk

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