A MUM who lost her battle with breast cancer will be remembered during a fundraising drive for the hospice which helped her.

Anna Morgan, from Sutton St Nicholas, was 41 when she died last August after fighting breast cancer for two years.

In her memory, Sutton Primary Academy – where her four-year-old son, Lucas, attends – is holding a fundraising drive called Show Me The Bunny.

Twenty schools will decorate 20 wooden bunnies, which will then be placed in 20 Hereford shops and businesses.

People can then buy a treasure map to find the bunnies, with all proceeds going to St Michael's Hospice. Prizes come courtesy of M&S, Wyevale, Westons and the Co-op.

Mrs Morgan's husband, Richard, said his wife spent six weeks at the hospice in the run-up to Christmas 2013.

He said: "They really helped to rehabilitate her and get her ready to come back and face a three-year-old. It was quite a challenge physically as well as mentally."

And he said he did not realise the range of services the hospice offers.

He said: "It is not necessarily somewhere you go to die. A lot of people think it is a service for 70 and 80-year-olds who have got no friends and family and are fading away.

"It is so much more than that. There were a lot of day care and respite care patients in there.

"Ultimately the long term diagnosis was terminal but it wasn't going to be next May or next year even. It is just giving them a break from the routine at home and also their carers a break."

The hospice also offers bereavement counselling for those left behind.

Mr Morgan, who is a gardener, said both he and Lucas have good days and bad days.

The 40-year-old said they want to help as much as they can to promote the hospice. And he said in the time his wife had left they were able to make the most of it.

Mr Morgan said: "We did what we could in the time we had. For her 40th birthday we went to New York for four days. It was fantastic."

Sarah Watkins, a teacher at Sutton Primary Academy, came up with the fundraising idea as she worked with Mrs Morgan in two previous jobs.

The rabbits were made by Geoff Williams of G.J Williams Repair of Old Buildings. His daughters Tilly and Lola attend the Sutton school.