GRAPHIC designer Karen Waggott is hoping nostalgia for the demolished Didcot A power station will help fund research into her son’s severe allergic condition.
Mrs Waggott, from Didcot, created an image of the power station, which was demolished in July, and displayed it at the Cornerstone Arts Centre last year in an exhibition about the Great Western Park development.
Now she has decided to sell copies of the design to raise funds for the Anaphylaxis Campaign, as her son Jamie, six, suffers from a nut allergy.
She will also print the image on to mugs and sell them at this year’s Didcot Craft Fair on Saturday, November 15, and Sunday, November, 16 at the Civic Hall in Broadway.
She said: “Jamie, who is a pupil at Manor Primary, has had three allergic reactions so far including one in June when he ate a packet of jelly fruit sweets.
“Fortunately, so far, he has never needed an adrenaline pen but you have to be very careful as a parent because potentially, for some children, a reaction could be life-threatening if was not treated in time.
“People liked my image of the power station so I came up with the idea to raise funds for the Anaphylaxis Campaign.”
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