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Tom's celebrity joke book
raises cash in memory of his granddads
COMEDIANS, celebrities and even the
Royal Household have helped Tom Heyes write a joke book and raise £840 for
charity in memory of his 2 late granddads.
Tom, aged 11, presented half to staff at the Medical Day Unit, at Southport Hospital, where Peter Heyes, of Skelmersdale, was a patient until his death from
leukaemia. The remainder went to the British Heart Foundation in memory of David
Birchall, of Ormskirk. Both granddads were 67 and died within 18 months of each
other.
The joke book was born when Tom, bored practicing his hand writing the usual
way, started writing out jokes instead. "Soon I had lots of jokes and I thought it would make a great book because
I wanted to raise some money in memory of my grandads," said Tom, from
Aughton, near Ormskirk.
He wrote a letter to 45 famous people asking them to contribute a joke,
including a joke of his own:-
Q. What do you call a man with a rubber toe?
A. Roberto!
Jokes came back from celebrities including Harry Hill, Peter Kay and Lucy
Meacock, and included this 1 from Peter Kay:- "Shakespeare walks into a pub. The landlord says:-
'You're bard!'"
Staff from the Royal Household at Kensington Palace sent 2 pages of jokes on
behalf of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The Queen's lady in waiting, Jennifer Gordon Lennox, politely declined on Her
Majesty's behalf, but did return the stamp addressed envelope:- "you so
thoughtfully enclosed."
Tom's mum and dad, Neil and Claire Heyes, published 300 copies of the book
through their family business Heyes Opticians and sold them for £3 each, every
penny going to the 2 charities.
Neil said:- "It's been fantastic how supportive people have been and it's
great for Tom to have such another great memory of his grandads."
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