A 16-year-old helped boost a charity’s summer sale takings after setting up shop in support of one of her scout leaders who has a form of blood cancer.

Explorer Scout Jemma Crags donated £366.95 to Rosemere Cancer Foundation’s Dallam Group’s summer sale outside Storth Village Hall, Beetham, which brought the day’s takings to £1,248.84.

Jemma set up an honesty book shop to raise funds for West Lancs Scouts to attend the Asia Pacific Jamboree.

Having met her fundraising target, she continued her stall in support of one of her leaders, who has a form of blood cancer.

Having made a donation to Blood Cancer UK, Jemma decided to use the stall to help Rosemere Cancer Foundation’s Dallam Group, a member of which is Alison Charlesworth, Jemma’s former headmistress from when she attended Storth Primary School.

Rosemere Cancer Foundation works to bring cancer treatments and services to cancer patients from Lancashire and south Cumbria being treated at Rosemere Cancer Centre, Lancashire and south Cumbria’s regional specialist cancer treatment and radiotherapy centre at the Royal Preston Hospital, and at another eight local hospital cancer units across the two counties, including at Westmorland General Hospital.