DEDICATED Scouts group supporter and charity fundraiser, Haslemere resident Don Luck has died.

Don, who was awarded a joint Tindle Medal with his wife June, for outstanding service to the community, in 2014, devoted most of his spare time and retirement years to helping others.

Born in Chiddingfold, he married June, who also lived in the village and attended the same school, in 1955. The couple moved to Haslemere in the mid 1980s and Don leaves his wife, their two children and three grandchildren.

A loyal supporter of Chiddingfold Cubs and then 1st Haslemere Scout Group, Don gave up his summer holidays from his work as a builder, to help out on overseas expeditions.

As assistant commissioner of the Scout Fellowship, renamed Scout Active Support in 2009, he regularly drove groups and their kit abroad for camping trips and also started an air rifle shooting club.

After being diagnosed with heart problems in 2000 and undergoing a double-heart bypass the following year, he resolved to devote his time to fundraising for the British Heart Foundation and set up a Haslemere group.

A chief fundraiser with his wife, the couple swelled the total by selling secondhand books at car boot sales, table top sales and fetes. Don stepped down due to ill health last summer.

June said: “Don (pictured) was very well liked, I must have had more than 50 cards. He always said that what he did was what he wanted to do.

“He didn’t take holidays in the summer and if he did a Scout camp abroad that was his holiday. After his heart bypass, all he wanted to do was raise money for the British Heart Foundation.”

The funeral service will be held at Guildford Crematorium on Tuesday, March 7, at 10.30am. Family flowers only, no black clothes and donations to British Heart Foundation.