A SCHOOLBOY is raising cash for a sports club hit by thieves.
Jack May, 13, plays for one of Canvey Island Rugby Club's youth teams and has been busily collecting money and selling raffle tickets.
The club was targeted last month by burglars who stole a raffle box, containing £500, and a charity collection box for a horse sanctuary with about £40 inside.
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They also ripped a BT phone off the wall, containing about £20, before draining the bar's optics of spirits and flooding it by leaving a beer tap running.
Most of the damage has been repaired. It has cost the club almost £2,500, but this has left it with little money left.
Kay White, Jack's head of year at Castle View School, said: "Jack approached me and said he would like to raise some money. So I suggested doing a raffle."
Jack spent the weekend gathering prizes including make-up, chocolates and cuddly toys.
The school's PE department donated a football signed by all of Canvey Island Football Club's players.
The draw is planned for Friday, May 9.
Tony Leeming, the rugby club's chairman of youth development, said: "It is really nice for a lad of that age to be thinking, This has happened to our club, I'd like to do something about it'."
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