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Tom Reid: £3,000 raised in memory of Leeds student
A fundraising day at a Leeds school in memory of a former pupil raised £3,000.
Garforth Community College held Tom Reid Day to help the family of the 19-year-old who died suddenly of an undetected heart condition.
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As reported in the YEP, parents Antony and Halina Reid, from Garforth, Leeds, lost their son Tom when he collapsed and died at a nightclub event for students at University College London (UCL) last September.
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Tests showed he had died of a condition known as Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS).
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Since then, his parents have been trying to raise money and awareness about the number of young people whose lives are cut short each year.
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The Reids hope to raise enough money to fund an ECG testing session at which young people from Garforth can have their hearts screened.
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For the fundraiser, the school charged all students 1.50 to dress in casual clothes for the day.
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They held a bun sale and had an information stand with literature about SADS, as well as a craft stall and a raffle with prizes donated by local and national businesses.
They included a Toni & Guy haircut, a meal for two at the Marriot and a signed Leeds United shirt.
Mr Reid told the YEP: "We cannot thank enough the generosity of local and national businesses for supporting the Tom Reid Day and for helping us to raise awareness of SADS, the condition which cruelly took away our son."
Martin Colley, Garforth's senior vice principal, said: "Tom Reid was a very gifted and committed student, highly respected by the staff and students at Garforth Community College, and with such a promising future ahead of him.
"His sudden and unexpected death was a great shock to all those at the college that knew him and consequently, in memory of him and to celebrate his life, the Tom Reid Day was an opportunity for the whole college to work together in various fund raising activities in aid of Cardiac Risk in the Young."
* For more information on SADS, visit: www.c-r-y.org.uk
* To help with the fundraising, visit: www.justgiving.com/ThomasAntonyReid
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