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image captionAndrian Melka has been working on the clay model since Captain Sir Tom Moore died in February
A £28,000 crowdfunding campaign to create a bronze statue of Captain Sir Tom Moore has nearly met its target.
North Yorkshire sculptor Andrian Melka has been working on a 6ft 6in (2m) clay model of the NHS fundraiser since his death in February.
Mr Melka said he hoped the finished work would be located in the garden of a Leeds hospital as an inspiration to patients and staff.
More than £25,000 has been donated so far to cover the cost of casting.
A SCUPLTOR creating a bronze statue of Captain Sir Tom Moore is reaching the final stages of his creation as the UK prepares to celebrate what would have been the inspirational fundraiser s 101st birthday. Andrian Melka began work on a 2m (6ft 6in) clay statue of Sir Tom in February following the news of his death, and it is now almost ready to be cast in bronze and donated to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Mr Melka, of Bolton Percy in North Yorkshire, hopes the sculpture will provide inspiration for staff, patients and visitors and remind them that one step in front of the other will get you somewhere .
A SCULPTOR from near York who is working on a bronze statue of Captain Sir Tom Moore is reaching the final stages of his creation. And it comes as the UK prepares to celebrate what would have been the inspirational fundraiser’s 101st birthday. Andrian Melka began work on a 2m clay statue of Sir Tom in February following the news of his death, and it is now almost ready to be cast in bronze and donated to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Mr Melka, of Bolton Percy, south of York, hopes the sculpture will provide inspiration for staff, patients and visitors and remind them that “one step in front of the other will get you somewhere”.
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