FOR the second time in a month, fundraisers Donna and Paul Stevens of Elliot’s Touch charity have visited a hospital to make a donation – this time for £30,000 towards vital research.

Their latest cheque was presented to Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals to help with research into genetic heart disease, and Paul, Donna and several of the charity’s volunteers heard more about how the results from their fundraising efforts were being used.

Earlier in January, Elliot’s Touch presented five monitors to the children’s ward at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton.

Donna and Paul, with the help of dedicated volunteers, have raised thousands of pounds since they set up the charity in memory of their son Elliot, who died in 2015 from Mitochondrial Disease and Cardiomyopathy at the age of 13 months.?The three main beneficiaries of their efforts are the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Musgrove Park Hospital.

Gill Raikes, a fundraiser at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, described their recent visit - along with supporters Jan Hoare, Stephanie Lancaster and Gary Thompson – as “one of the most moving days I have ever had as a fundraiser”.