‘That Bid Kid’ website goes live

Megan Biddle wearing her trademark sunglasses

FOLLOWING the overwhelming grief expressed on social media, and the many tributes paid to 18 year-old Megan Biddle after her death in March this year, her friends and family have been fund-raising to produce a permanent memorial to ‘Bid’, as she was affectionately know, in the form of a unique bench.

Michael Gibbs, who designed the hand sculpture in the Youth Memorial garden in Thame, has come up with a design based on ideas from Megan’s friends, expressing her many ‘trademarks’ and passions, including music, skate-boarding, crazy sunglasses and bobble hats! The design is based on a long-board (a long skateboard) and will be made of metal and playfully incorporate wheels at each end that can be spun at will.

A website http://thatbidkid.com/, has now gone live, through which Megan’s friend will be fundraising to build the memorial bench and the project is being co-ordinated through Thame Youth Memorial (charity number 1135630).

The target is £10,000 and already around £1,000 has been raised through the sale of wrist bands and donations, and Lord Williams’s school will be sharing funds raised with the schools’s Gambia Child project, on the last day of term when the teachers will be sporting Christmas jumpers. Megan’s friends were selling wrist bands at the Barley Hill Christmas Disco and raised around £50.

To find out more about Megan’s bench and to make a donation or to find out where you can get hold of wrist bands, visit: http://thatbidkid.com/fundraising/