The Four Friends Memorial Fund

A CHARITY golf day has raised more than £1,000 for a memorial fund which was launched following the deaths of four men.

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The Four Friends Memorial Fund now stands at more than £35,000 following the extra cash generated at Stanton Golf Society’s charity event last year.

Members of the society knew brothers Thomas, 26, and Daniel Hazelton, 30, and their workmates Peter Johnson (PJ), 42, and Adam Taylor, 28, of whom the fund was set up in memory.

Tom, Daniel and PJ were from Stanton and Adam was from Rickinghall, and Daniel had also been living in Rickinghall for the past few years.

Stanton Golf Society has handed about £1,400 over to the Four Friends Memorial Fund, which was launched by the East Anglian Daily Times in liaison with the men’s families.

Richard Sewell, vice-chairman elect of Stanton Golf Society and who helped organise the charity golf day, said: “It was a unanimous decision by all the members of Stanton Golf Society that the money would go to the fund.”

The cash was raised through people paying to take part in the event last August as well as an auction and raffle draw.

Mr Sewell said his sons used to go to school with Daniel and Tom, and PJ used to run the disco at the society dinner.

He said: “Everybody knows everybody and it [the tragedy] was a big hammer blow to the whole village, more than just the society. It was devastating.”

A meeting is taking place next week between the EADT and the families and partners of the four men who died to develop plans for a permanent memorial in Stanton and Rickinghall. The idea being worked on is of four chairs around a central sculpture.