As a primary school pupil, Amy Mead (left) was devastated by her best friend’s death while on an adventure holiday. Amy, from Minster, is now a pupil at Highstead Grammar School in Sittingbourne, and has been awarded a certificate from the charity CRY, Cardiac Risk in the Young, for raising more than £500. Amy was a
Charlotte Wright
Schoolgirl's fundraising in memory of lost friend
A pupil at Highsted Grammar School has raised more than £500 for a good cause after her friend died of a heart attack. Amy Mead collected the money as part of an initiative at the school which saw everyone in year eight come up with ideas to raise money for charity. The 13-year-old from Minster supported
Amy raises
A youngster whose best friend died of a heart attack on a school trip has raised £500 for charity. Charlotte Wright was just nine years old when she died on a school trip to the Isle of Wight, leaving Amy looking on in horror. Now Amy Mead, 13, who is a pupil at Highstead Grammar School
Plea that comes from the heart
This is the postcard that Islanders are being urged to send to their MP urging him to support a new campaign. The thought-provoking card features the photograph of tragic Sheppey girl Charlotte Wright, who died aged just eight years old. Charlotte is pictured alongside seven other young people from the South East who also lost their
Charlotte's memory lives on in campaign
This picture of tragic Charlotte Wright, taken moments before she died, is to be used for a national campaign calling on the Government to provide heart screening for young people. Charlotte died at just eight years old of sudden heart failure as she scaled a 20ft high tree on a school adventure holiday in Hindhead in
First award is presented in girl's memory
The first national award in memory of a Sheppey youngster who died on a school trip has been presented to a teenager from the Isle of Wight. Emily Brady, 13, pictured, received the Charlotte Wright Child of Kindness Award for her dedication to helping animals at the RSPCA’s Godshill Animal Centre, Isle of Wight. Emily, whose
Award in memory of Charlotte
The first national award in memory of a Sheppey youngster who died while on a school tip in 2002 is to be awarded this Saturday. The Charlotte Wright Child of Kindness Award was created by the RSPCA at the request of Charlotte’s godmother and animal rights campaigner Angela Walder, of Oak Lane, Minster. Charlotte’s mother, Karen
Charlotte, queen of our hearts…
The loss of a child is too awful to contemplate and the reality too painful to bear. The parents, relatives and friends of eight-year-old Charlotte Wright are finding it hard to come to terms with her death. They had no warning, no illness, no hereditary disease – nothing to make them think that their Charlotte was
