A TEENAGER is juggling exam revision with helping to break the £13,000 barrier for her Bradford City-inspired online fundraising in aid of the Burns Unit.

Georgia Thornton, 15, sells claret and amber-coloured ribbons in aid of the unit online and at Bantams matches.

She has raised more than £11,600 for the burns unit by selling the ribbons since November 2017. She hopes to raise £1,500 from this year’s appeal.

Georgia, who lives in Morecambe, is selling her ribbons, priced £1 each.

 

She will be selling the ribbons to fellow Bantams fans from 12.30pm this Saturday, at the club’s final game of the season in League Two against Carlisle United at Valley Parade. She also sold them at City’s home clash with Tranmere Rovers on Good Friday, where she met Bantams players Richard O’Donnell and Jamie Walker.

The teenager has been making the claret and amber ribbons during breaks from revision for her GCSE exams, which she sits next month.

Fans have also been encouraged to contact her via her Bradford City Ribbons' Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts, to donate their own memorabilia to be put up for auction which she will hold later this year after completion of her GCSE exams.

The Plastic Surgery and Burns Research Unit (PSBRU) at the University of Bradford was founded by Professor David Sharpe following the fire disaster at Valley Parade on May 11, 1985 where 56 people died and 258 were injured.

 

Georgia's dad, Scott Thornton, said: "It is something close to her heart.

“It is a gesture to raise as much money as she can for the Bradford Burns Unit.

“She will be there at the game on Saturday.

“She is on target for raising £1,500 for this year. We are proud of her. Nothing is going to stop her with the ribbons.

“This is doing the ribbons this year and not the auction. But if anybody wants to sell her items to auction, she will do an auction later this year.

It’s nice that people recognise Georgia. She is loving doing it, she is buzzing to get back out there to meet people

“She is going to be at the fire memorial in Bradford next week.”

Georgia had to sell her ribbons online only and hold a fundraising auction of football memorabilia over the last two years due to the restrictions of the pandemic.

She has previously made and donated her claret and amber ribbons to weddings and funerals featuring fellow City fans.