EIGHTEEN-year-old George Bolt added red and teal bandanas to his school’s uniform to raise money for The Brain Tumour charity’s #WearItOut Bandanas for Brain Tumours Campaign.

The teenager, from Hindhead, raised £2,537 in memory of his brother, Alex, who lost his life to a brain tumour, at the age of 16, in 2011.

He sold the bandanas last month at Salesian College, in Farnborough, where Alex was also a pupil.

Cricket-mad Alex died a year after being diagnosed.

George and his school friends joined thousands around the UK sporting WearItOut bandanas to mark Brain Tumour Awareness Month. The Bandanas for Brain Tumours campaign aims to raise awareness about the devastating disease – the biggest cancer killer of children and adults under 40 in the UK – as well as vital funds for The Brain Tumour Charity’s drive to reduce diagnosis times, saving more lives.

After Alex died, his family set up the Alex Bolt Fund with The Brain Tumour Charity to help raise vital funds for research.

So far, the fund has raised more than £600,000.

Fundraising events include climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, hosting gala dinners and holding celebrity cricket matches.

Mum Jeannette said: “After losing Alex, we are passionate about helping to raise awareness and funds to help defeat this cruel disease to stop other families going through the same heartache.

“I’m so proud of George for organising the day at his school – and I know Alex would have been, too.”

Geraldine Pipping, The Brain Tumour Charity’s head of fundraising, said: “Although brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of children and young adults, survival rates have not improved significantly over the last 40 years.

“We are leading the way in changing this, fighting brain tumours on all fronts by funding world-class research as well as offering support and information.

“We receive no government money and rely 100 per cent on donations, so we are hugely grateful to the Bolt family for their continued support and efforts in helping to raise awareness and money.

“Throughout the years, they have raised more than an amazing £600,000 for research. It’s only through the efforts of people like them that we can continue to make a real difference.”

See www.thebraintumour charity.org for details.