‘Kindest kid’ in Brum

23rd Oct 2009

HARRY Mose­ley, a nine year old boy from Birm­ing­ham, has been named ‘Britain’s Kind­est Kid’ after rais­ing almost £15,000 for the Brain Tumour UK char­ity. Harry, who has an inop­er­a­ble brain tumour, was voted by the pub­lic to win the pres­ti­gious award after his story, along with the other final­ists, was shown on Five News and Live From Stu­dio Five.

Harry began fundrais­ing for the char­ity on behalf of the fifty-five year old man who was in the bed beside him at hos­pi­tal and suf­fered from the same con­di­tion as he did.

He began mak­ing bracelets, which are still being sold in over 30 dif­fer­ent shops around the Midlands.To add to this, he also started his own school ini­tia­tive whereby he vis­ited schools and did a pre­sen­ta­tion on why they should get involved and begin mak­ing and sell­ing their own bracelets for charities.

The prize Harry received was £1,000 pocket money, which he vowed to spend on a play­house for the gar­den, and to give £200 to his brother and sis­ter. The prize also included a fur­ther £1,000 of vouch­ers to donate to a char­ity of his choice.

As well as the prize, Harry and the rest of the final­ists, man­aged to secure a trip to Down­ing Street to meet the Prime Min­is­ter and his wife, with Natasha Kaplin­sky accom­pa­ny­ing them to report on it. Kaplin­sky said ‘Harry is an inspi­ra­tion . The fact that he is con­tin­u­ing to think of oth­ers and to raise money while bat­tling his own ill­ness shows an incred­i­ble amount of brav­ery and com­pas­sion, espe­cially in some­one so young, and we were delighted to name him Britain’s Kind­est Kid.’ The com­pe­ti­tion is run by Char­i­ties Aid Foun­da­tion and Five News.