{"id":804960,"date":"2026-10-16T23:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804960\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:20:15","slug":"boys-at-weymouths-budmouth-academy-hold-fundraiser-after-meningitis-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804960\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys at Weymouth&#8217;s Budmouth Academy hold fundraiser after meningitis ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jack said: &#8220;It was quite worrying but the doctors we were with were very enthusiastic towards us. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was in [hospital] for around a week, then I was back in afterwards with other problems from the meningitis and sepsis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After finding out that World Meningitis Day was on 5 October, the boys asked their head teacher if they could mark the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to BBC Radio Solent&#8217;s Breakfast show, Freddy said: &#8220;It was meant to be global meningitis day but it sort of turned into a week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;On Monday we did a non-uniform day, and then Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday we had a tuck shop and we were selling raffle tickets for the Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;On the Friday we did a massive draw in Clare Hall, which is Budmouth&#8217;s big hall, and we had prizes from loads of different companies across Dorset and other friends and family and people that we know, so I want to thank everyone for gifting us all the prizes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the Weymouth cases, confirmed between 20 March and 15 April, were not linked to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdxg35dv7npo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deadly outbreak in Kent<\/a> in which two people died and more than 20 were taken ill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All pupils in years 7 to 13 in Weymouth, Portland and Chickerell were offered antibiotics and the MenB vaccination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack said: &#8220;It was quite worrying but the doctors we were with were very enthusiastic towards us. &#8220;I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-804960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}