SUPPORTERS of Canvey’s Indee Rose Trust will be lacing up their climbing boots to tackle seven summits so the charity can keep donating treasure boxes to poorly children.

A group of 20, including Indee Rose Dopson’s father Russell Dopson, will scale seven summits across the Swiss Alps over five days in a bid to raise £75,000 for the charity, which was established after Indee Rose Dopson died from a brain tumour aged three, in June 2009.

Since her death, her parents Russell and Jane Allen have been raising money to donate treasure boxes of goodies to seriously ill children in hospital.

Her dad, 45, of Canvey, said: “A few years ago we climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and we wanted to do something a bit more difficult - not quite Mount Everest but harder than Mount Kilimanjaro.

“We are starting it on July 1 as July 4 would have been Indee’s birthday.

“For the last few years Jane and a group of ladies have walked 76 miles from our holiday homes in Kent to Canvey to raise money and we thought it was time the men did something again.

“We send out two or three treasure boxes a week and they cost about £500 to do, so we are very thankful for the support we get.

“I get to deliver the boxes and it’s brilliant, it’s like being Father Christmas for the day, it’s amazing.”

Each team member has an individual fundraising page, the details of which can be found at justgiving.com/companyteams/7summits.

To donate directly to Russell’s page visit justgiving.com/fundraising/Russell-Dopson2