5,000 students and 750 staff raise thousands for charity of the year after death of much loved community policeman

By Jill Dando News

Some 5,000 students and 750 staff have raised thousands for a charity of the year after the death of a much loved community policeman.

The eight Somerset schools of The Priory Learning Trust (TPLT) have raised thousands of pounds supporting Brain Tumour Research after making it their official charity over the past year.

The charity was chosen after a good friend of TPLT, Jim Murray, sadly died of the disease in December 2020, aged 53. 

Jim was the community police officer for Priory Community School Academy for many years, helping hundreds of people and serving the town in so many ways.

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The much-loved community beat manager from Bridgwater was awarded a medal for long service and good conduct in November 2018 and passed away on 26 December 2020.

Jim left behind his wife Ally, three sons Callum, Simon and Richard, four grandchildren and close family friend, and unofficially adopted son Wayne, who, along with Jim’s children set up a fundraising group called Canoeing for a Cure under the umbrella of Brain Tumour Research, to help find a cure.

Mel Tiley, community development manager at Brain Tumour Research, said: “Thank you to every single person who has helped us this year through The Priory Learning Trust. 

“Jim’s family and Canoeing for a Cure have been wonderfully supportive of the charity. We were delighted that TPLT helped to fundraise to help find a cure for the deadly disease.”

The schools in the TPLT involved in the fundraising were Worle Community School Academy, Priory Community School Academy, The King Alfred School Academy, St Anne’s Church Academy, Castle Batch Primary School Academy, Pawlett Primary School Academy, West Huntspill Primary Academy and East Huntspill Primary Academy.

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CEO of TPLT Nathan Jenkins said: “Charity and our civic duty are at the heart of what we do at TPLT. Students and staff do so much to help others in our community and for charities.

“We are thrilled to hand over donations from all our schools to support Brain Tumour Research in all its fabulous work.”

TPLT is passionate about helping people, the community and its civic duty. In recent years schools across the trust have raised more than £130,000 for charities.

Brain Tumour Research funds sustainable research at dedicated centres in the UK. It also campaigns for the Government and the larger cancer charities to invest more in research into brain tumours in order to speed up new treatments for patients and, ultimately, to find a cure. 

The charity is the driving force behind the call for a national annual spend of £35 million in order to improve survival rates and patient outcomes in line with other cancers such as breast cancer and leukaemia and is also campaigning for greater repurposing of drugs.

If you’d like to find out how you can get involved in supporting Brain Tumour Research please visit: www.braintumourresearch.org/fundraise for more information.

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