A FOOTBALL club is helping a grieving family to raise money for a charity.
Middlesbrough Football Club has donated a football signed by the first team squad to the family of Darren Baker, who died of a brain tumour in May 2002, aged nine.
It will be auctioned in aid of The Rainbow Trust, which helped the family after his death.
Darren was a keen soccer fan and had visited the Riverside Stadium shortly before he died.
"He loved football," said his father, Michael. "We went to Middlesbrough for a day and met the players and Steve McClaren.
"They looked after us and it was a great gesture of theirs to donate the football."
To place a bid for the football, which has signatures from Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Bolo Zenden, Tony McMahon and Mark Schwarzer, call Mrs Baker on (01325) 461785.
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