A 12-YEAR-OLD baker has raised money for the hospice which cared for her grandad.

Imogen Brown from, Dorchester, baked an array of tasty cakes and sold them to raise funds for the Joseph Weld Hospice.

The Dorchester hospice took care of her grandfather, Chris Dufall, who lost his battle with cancer last December.

Imogen’s mum, Kerry Brown, said: “The hospice has been amazing to us. They’ve been so supportive. 

“The cake sale was finding something positive when things weren’t very nice.”

Imogen and her family – dad Luke Brown, eight-year-old sister Madelaine and grandmother Jacky Dufall – braved thunder and lightning to hold the cake sale, which she organised by herself, and managed to raise £862 despite the bad weather. 

Kerry said: “We asked friends and family to join us for the afternoon and have a bit of a picnic, where the kids could play together and people could donate to the hospice. 

“There was thunder and lightning but people still turned up and donated very generously. We raised about £500 there but then people who couldn’t make it still donated. 

“We went to Joseph Weld with the cheque and the staff asked Imogen why she’d decided to raise the money for them. She told them ‘Joseph Weld is an amazing place which looked after my grandad.’ It’s very close to her heart.”

Imogen is a keen baker who hopes to make her cake sale an annual event.

Last year, her cakes raised more than £500 for the Fortuneswell Ward at Dorset County Hospital, where her grandfather was first admitted for treatment. 

Kerry said: “She loves baking. She also like to help people and do good things. We are a close family and we all see it as a positive thing to do.”

Jo Sharkey, bereavement support worker at Joseph Weld Hospice, said: “She is a very enthusiastic, beautiful young being that’s always thinking and caring about others. 

“For a young person to raise so much is massive. It will go towards many services. For a young person to have the thought to plan, organise and go ahead with it all is huge. It’s fantastic.”