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Edinburgh Live
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Iona Young

East Lothian charity's vital mental health work with children doubles in a year

An East Lothian mental health charity for chronically ill children in hospital has doubled the number they have helped over the past year.

The Teapot Trust in East Lothian was started over ten years ago when founders Laura and John Young were spending a lot of time with in hospital with their daughter suffering with autoimmune disease Lupus.

She sadly died in 2008 and the charity was set up a couple of years later to offer mental health support to chronically ill children in hospital and their families.

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