Hundreds of people swapped their usual attire to dress head to toe in orange to raise £4,000 which will help go towards helping a 13-year-old boy.

On February 1, schoolchildren at York House School and St Clement Danes School, along with 22 shops and businesses, turned Rickmansworth orange in aid of Archie Hill.

Archie, who uses a wheelchair, was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy in 2008 which causes his muscles to weaken. The condition affects his movement but his breathing too.

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Archie and his family, who are from Gerrards Cross, have already raised more than £240,000 for Muscular Dystrophy UK with the 13-year-old providing the face of the campaign when the charity were successful in 2015 to get the drug Translarna approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

Insurance brokers Christopher Trigg Ltd, which is based in Rickmansworth, have chosen Muscular Dystrophy UK as its charity partner and regularly helped fundraise for Archie.

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So at the beginning of the month, the town of Rickmansworth got behind Go Orange for a Day, raising £4,000.

Each person who got involved dressed up in strictly orange and paid a £1 towards the charity.

Some of the money raised will go towards some home adaptations for Archie.

Shelly Trigg, a family friend of the Hill’s and helped make the fundraiser possible, said: “The coldest day of the year didn’t stop our town turning orange. Archie’s smile beamed throughout the local Rickmansworth businesses and schools and the support for MDUK was fantastic.”

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Louise Moffat, Muscular Dystrophy UK’s regional development manager for London, said: “We’re so grateful that Christopher Trigg Ltd have chosen to use Go Orange for a Day.

“To launch our charity partnership by encouraging the whole town to go orange! All the children and teachers looked fantastic along with the high street being full of balloons and very orange. It is thanks to fundraisers like these that we are able to continue to fund pioneering research into potential treatments for muscle-wasting conditions, as well as supporting families like the Hill’s.”