5th January 1996 SN
Jordan meets up with his helper.
A BIG-hearted fundraiser who whisked up more than £1,300 for a little boy she had never met finally came face to face with him this week.
Burston youngster Jordan Pedley started a year of therapy at the pioneering Peto Institute in Hungary in spring of last year.
Newsletter readers have often dipped into their pockets to help pay the £1,000 fees which have seen the little boy make the first tentative steps towards walking, talking and swimming.
But Uttoxeter woman Audrey Brown, a regular at Sandon Church, went a step further.
She said: “Our church harvest festival was for Jordan and I decided I could produce something by making jam, which raised £300.”
But with Christmas looming, Mrs Brown persuaded a hamper company to donate a festive offering and invited family and friends to guess the value of its contents. That made an astonishing £1,010.
“I thought it might raise as much again as the jam,” she said. “It rather knocks me back that we made more than £1,000.”
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