Mum of disabled Scots teenager helped by Kate Winslet to fundraise for other children

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The mother of a disabled teenager has launched a fundraiser to help families of children with life-shortening conditions with their energy bills, a year after Kate Winslet donated £17,000 to help with hers.Carolynne Hunter’s 13-year-old daughter Freya has severe complex health problems and disabilities, is non-verbal and blind and requires full-time oxygen and at-home nursing care.A £17,000 donation from Winslet in November of last year to a GoFundMe Ms Hunter set up to get support with electricity bills helped “tremendously”, with the mother now in a position where “we don’t have to worry about our energy bills”.The 50-year-old, who is a project lead for charity Pamis and lives in Stirlingshire, Scotland, now hopes to help families with disabled children across Scotland, through the fundraising platform.She told the PA news agency: “Kate saw me campaigning the [Scottish and UK] governments and wanted to donate to me to help with my energy bills, so GoFundMe contacted me and helped me set up a GoFundMe page so she could.“This then went viral and many more kind people donated too.“Despite this, I have continued to campaign to the Scottish and UK governments to try and push for a social tariff for families like mine so they can think about how they can make their homes more energy efficient and to get them to think about how we can support our families in a more appropriate way.“I worked with GoFundMe to set up a fundraiser to support families this Christmas who are in a similar situation to me last year to hopefully raise money to help them with their bills, but whilst doing that, it can also give me a platform again to start talking a bit more widely about what the UK Government had promised last year in terms of a