AN average half-term break from school might be crammed with playing computer games, watching TV and seeing friends.

But 11-year-old Sam Bassil chose to fundraise for Help for Heroes after watching the Pride of Britain Awards on television.

Sam, a pupil at Hounsdown School in Totton, raised £217.50 when he did a 5k run around Southampton Common to raise cash for the soldiers wounded in Afghanistan.

He said: “I was watching the programme on TV and I thought it was really good what people did and I wanted to have a go.”

Now Sam has got the fundraising bug and hopes to do more events for charity.

Echo picture by Chris Moorhouse.

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