A local shop owner is helping a 17-year-old teenager raise much-needed cash to go on a school trip of a lifetime to help children in East Africa.

Isla Brooks from Rode Heath will be heading out on Camp Tanzania with Alsager School to volunteer with local communities empowering children through education and hands-on support.

Jenny Creamer, owner of Bargain Booze in Rode Heath is helping Isla Brooks raise money for her trip. (Photo: Nub News)

Bargain Booze in Rode Heath is selling raffle tickets to win festive-filled baubles off the shop's Christmas tree plus handmade reindeer food to help Isla raise funds for the trip.

The shop's fundraising will help bolster Isla's Tanzania fundraising which is being further boosted by her weekend work with a football project plus occasional work as an 'extra' on the TV drama, Waterloo Road.

And Isla is also being sponsored by Emerald Power and Alsager Plant Hire/

Bargain Booze in Rode Heath shop owner, Jenny Creamer, said: "When I heard that Isla was raising money to go on this trip I suggested we sold raffle tickets to win the prizes on our Christmas tree in the front window of the shop.

"We're also selling her reindeer food to help her funds. I like to support the local community and this is just a small way of helping Isla to raise funds to go on the trip."

Isla, who hopes to follow a career in international relations, is hoping the trip, which will see her making a lasting and positive change to childrens' lives, will lay the stepping stones for her future plans.

Bargain Booze in Rode Heath is selling raffle tickets and reindeer food to help Isla raise money for her trip. (Photo: Nub News)

"I already work with children as part of the 'Little Kickers' football programme. Going on this school trip will help me with my future plans," said Isla who lives in Rode Heath and is doing 'A' Levels in History, Geography and Politics.

Bargain Booze is selling raffle tickets, which will be drawn on New Year's Day, at £1 a strip to win different items on the Christmas tree.

Festive-filled baubles are being raffled off at Rode Heath's Bargain Booze. (Photo: Nub News)

Isla helps with a football project called 'Little Kickers' and is ploughing everything she earns from that into her school trip plus any she receives from occasional work as an 'extra' on the TV drama, 'Waterloo Road'.

She added: "I used to attend a drama school in Manchester after school and occasionally I get asked to appear as an extra on Waterloo Road.

"I'm doing some work in January for Waterloo Road. It's all helping to fund my trip."

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