A FOOTBALL tournament held in memory of an Oxford teenager who died from a rare form of cancer has grown into a charity fete.

Jake Spicer, from Shepherd’s Hill, Blackbird Leys, died in 2009 aged 15 surrounded by close family at Helen House hospice in East Oxford.

He was diagnosed five-a-half years earlier and spent that time raising thousands of pounds for charities Clic Sargent, Cancer Research UK, the Thomas Ball Cancer Care Fund and SeeSaw.

Jake’s brother Aaron, 24, had asked friends to have a kickaround at Blackbird Leys field off Cuddesdon Way on May 18 to raise money for Helen and Douglas House.

Once word got out prizes and donations from local businesses began flooding in and the idea of setting up stalls was pitched.

Jake’s mother Lesley said: “It’s a bit chaotic at the moment and we’re all running around trying to get things done. It’s taken us by surprise how many people want to help. We’re all very excited about what it could become.”

Family friend Laura Bradley, of Shepherd’s Hill, said: “The whole community knows what it means to the family and everyone here is so proud to have known Jake.

“I’ll be there with a beauty salon and three lads from the estate have agreed to a waxathon and head shave to raise money.”

Jake, a pupil at St Gregory the Great School, in East Oxford, had a rare form of bone cancer known as Ewing’s Sarcoma.