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JUST champion . . . Caroline Dean shows off her certificate and champagne

Community champion recognised for relentless charity fund-raising

A community champion who has helped her workmates raise £6,500 for the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign has been rewarded with champagne.

Caroline Dean, community champion at the Tesco Extra store in Huddersfield Road, Oldham, was presented with her certificate and bottle of bubbly after being recognised for her hard work.

Colleagues at the store, which opened in May last year, joined in the company’s corporate fund-raising efforts to help the campaign.

The charity described Caroline’s efforts to drum up support among her workmates as relentless. They organised quizzes, sweepstakes, sky-diving, and a Hallowe’en dressing-up day.

Caroline also took part in the 14,000ft tandem sky-dive which raised £1,500 to help local boy Thomas Gardner, from Garden Suburb, to buy a new wheelchair.

The 11-year-old suffers from the Duchenne type of muscular dystrophy (DMD) and needed £5,000 to pay for a new high-tech wheelchair, which he proudly showed off to Caroline and store staff as a thank-you.

Tesco’s chosen charity this year is CLIC Sargent, which helps families with young children who have been diagnosed with cancer.