A talented young dancer has raised more than £1,000 to help pay for a place at a top performing arts school.

Eden Wrightson, 13, from Littlemoor, put on a dance show with some of her friends at the Upwey and Broadwey Memorial Hall so that she can attend The Hammond School, a leading performing arts school in Chester.

She has already passed the auditions to get into the school, but she has to raise £13,000 of fees.

Her show, Dance Away, featured dances from an array of dancing genres and also featured a contemporary group piece choreographed by Eden herself, based on John McCrae’s famous In Flanders Fields poem.

Along with Eden, the showed starred Antonia Evans, Ellen Schofield, Verity McCartney-Parker, Ellie Mitchell, Lilli Kenway, Lucy Manning and Kiara Simmonds.

All of them are from the same festival competition group, run by Quay Theatre Arts.

Her mum, Lisa Wrightson, said Eden who has been dancing since the age of two, joined Quay Theatre Arts when she was eight and has performed in competitions across the country.

Eden said: “I think it went really well. I really enjoyed it and it went a lot more well planned than I thought it would. I was so happy. I thought we were only going to raise £400 so when we made over £1,000 I was ecstatic.”

Lisa said: “It was really good. It was a real success; we had a lot more people there than we expected, we sold over 100 tickets and we did a raffle as well.”

Lisa added that people were impressed by the standard of the show put on by the girls and how professional it was.

She said: “All of the mums should be really proud of how it went, what they have achieved and the fact that they worked together as a team as well.”

Eden is going to continue raising money towards her fees, with her next venture taking her to Middlesbrough, where she will stay with her grandmother to take part in a 24-mile long sponsored walk.