How these caring Hartlepool kids helped to keep children in hospital entertained

These kind kids did themselves proud when they set out their stall to help sick children.
By Mark Payne
Published 31st Aug 2020, 07:00 BST
The friends on their stall that raised money for the local children's ward and buying the presents at Asda in Hartlepool. The first picture shows (left to right): Maisie Lee, Abigail Watson, Dolly Taylor, Alex Watson and Seb Taylor.The friends on their stall that raised money for the local children's ward and buying the presents at Asda in Hartlepool. The first picture shows (left to right): Maisie Lee, Abigail Watson, Dolly Taylor, Alex Watson and Seb Taylor.
The friends on their stall that raised money for the local children's ward and buying the presents at Asda in Hartlepool. The first picture shows (left to right): Maisie Lee, Abigail Watson, Dolly Taylor, Alex Watson and Seb Taylor.

Five friends raised £250 by selling sweet treats and holding a tombola on the green off Meadowsweet Road on Hartlepool's Bishop Cuthbert estate.

Ten-year-old Maisie Lee was in charge of the cakes while Abigail Watson and her brother Alex prepared sweet bags and pop.

And siblings Dolly and Seb Taylor manned the tombola.

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They then made a trip to Asda where they turned the money into DVDs and computer console games for the children's ward at the University Hospital of North Tees which the ward said they needed.

Maisie's mum Clare Lee said: “They were over the moon with how much they raised just from people walking by.

"They were just ecstatic that they could come up with this little idea and make money and do something to give back to other children.”

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