FAMILY of former Cheltenham schoolboy Henry Scot Simmonds are all set to put in an oar-some effort to raise funds in his memory this week.
Henry's mum Rowan Hull, right, is set to canoe from Lechlade to London to raise funds for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research, starting out tomorrow.
She will be joined on the 142-mile challenge by others, including her daughter Georgina Scot Simmonds.
Friends have already donated £2,440 via an online page.
Former Pates Grammar School pupil Henry died in December 2010 at the age of 27 after waging a brave battle against acute lymphocytic leukaemia. An appeal for a bone marrow donor found a match, but his improved health was shortlived.
Rowan said: "Henry suffered from one of the most aggressive types of leukaemia. Few people survive it.
"However he was taking trial drugs and sometime soon, I am sure, if not a cure, a successful drug regime will be discovered. Already leukaemia is not the death sentence it was a few years ago."
To donate go to www.justgiving.com/rowanhullkayak