A BIRCHWOOD charity is set to be honoured after raising cash for defibrillators for the town’s schools.

Ciaran’s Cause was set up in seven-year-old Ciaran Latham-Geddes’ memory after he died of a cardiac arrest while enjoying a kickabout last year.

Since then his mum Marika and family have worked tirelessly to buy life-saving equipment so that other families do not have to suffer the same heartbreak.

Marika and trustee Cheryl Stewart will be presented with the community defibrillator award at the national cardiac charity SADS UK annual national community defibrillators awards by Dr David Pitcher, chairman of the resuscitation council.

Anne Jolly, founder of SADS UK, said: “If a person suffers a sudden cardiac arrest CPR provides a 5 per cent chance of survival but using CPR along with the defibrillator increases the chance of survival to more than 50 per cent.”