THE estate of a North-East widow has been used to create a bursary fund for family support and care workers.
Ann Coleman, who lived in Gosforth, Newcastle, left £10,000 to the Rainbow Trust Children's Charity.
Money from her estate has already been used to benefit other charities, including the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, the Yellow Brick Road Appeal, the Marie Curie Cancer Research Fund, and the Northern Counties' School for the Disabled.
Moira Elliot and Duncan Ross, care workers at the Rainbow Trust's respite centre near Hexham, will be the first recipients, receiving funding for Open University courses in health and social welfare.
Consultant Peter May, executor of the Ann Coleman Trust, said: "Ann Coleman would have been very pleased with the training bursary, as she took a great interest in easing the pain for seriously ill children. We hope this type of education programme will help the support and care workers in the work that they do."
The Rainbow Trust has provided care for 13 years for families of children with a life-threatening or terminal illness, working through centres such as Stockton's Butterwick Hospice, Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Eden Valley Hospice.
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