A CHARITY set up by two mums to help them through the heartbreak of losing young children has marked its fifth anniversary.

Katie Henderson, 40, and Dione Fox, 39, both from Colchester, buy and sell gifts and donate the money to charity.

Katie’s eldest daughter Aimee was born with Cockayne’s syndrome, and died just before her third birthday.

She also lost her fourth daughter Millie to the condition in April 2011.

Dione’s third daughter Poppy was stillborn in July 2009.

They had planned their Heavenly Gems charity would last for just one Christmas, but now they run parties and other events. So far they have raised £12,000.

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