With little Beatrix Adamson-Archbold still at the Freeman Hospital awaiting a heart transplant, police colleagues of her dad Terry are planning a charity walk from County Durham to the hospital to support a charity who have been helping the family.
Beatrix, who is not yet two, is one of a number of children at the Freeman Hospital currently in need of a heart. In July, their families came together to make a heartbreaking appeal for families to consider organ donation. Of course, opportunities for this kind of organ donation only come in sad circumstances - when another child is about to die.
Ahead of the charity walk, Beatrix's mum Cheryl added: "Some officers from Durham police will be raising funds for a local charity and raising awareness of childhood transplant issues." The walk is in aid of the Red Sky Foundation - a Sunderland-based charity set up by Sergio and Emma Petrucci, who saw daughter Luna too require open-heart surgery back in 2015.
