A CHARITY night is being held in memory of much loved mum and sister Faye Holden - who died just three months after giving birth to her son.

Faye tragically passed away last month at the age of 25 after suffering a massive epileptic seizure at home alone.

The former Glenmoor Academy head girl was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of six and suffered with absence seizures and tonic-clonic seizures on a fairly irregular basis throughout her life.

In 2012 she married husband Ross Holden and became a mother for the first time in January of this year when her son Austin Edward Holden was born.

Unfortunately just three months later tragedy struck when Faye suffered a tonic-clonic seizure - formerly know as grand mal seizures - while at her home in Surrey on Tuesday, April 12.

Now Faye's family and friends are organising a charity event at her former school to raise money for Epilepsy Research UK, the only national charity dedicated to funding research into epilepsy.

"Epilepsy Research is a fantastic charity which focuses on the research for causes, treatments and prevention of epilepsy," said Faye's brother Ollie Goldsmith.

"Faye’s old school friends and I really want to raise as much money for this fantastic charity and have therefore organised a charity night at Faye's old school this week.

"A group of us have also decided to take part in the Bournemouth Half Marathon in October and hope this fundraising event can massively help us towards our target of £2,500.

"Faye's story is such a tragic one but hopefully organising this event in her memory we will be able to raise lots of money for a charity which will help others with her condition."

The fundraising event takes place from 6pm to 10pm on Friday, May 20 at the school in Beswick Avenue. There will be a bar, a cake stall as well as beauty treatments on offer and a raffle with some great prizes.

In the UK alone, it is estimated that there are over 600,000 people living with the condition, that’s one in 103.

The charity currently funds 33 studies at institutes around the UK and researchers are exploring new techniques to diagnose and treat epilepsy, to improve surgical outcomes and new strategies to improve quality of life for people with epilepsy.

Jo Finnerty, events fundraiser for the charity, said: "Every day our researchers are making progress in understanding this debilitating condition but there is a continuing need to raise more money, to allow more of this great work to continue.

"Our work is funded entirely from voluntary donations, so we are hugely appreciative of the efforts made by our supporters to fundraise on our behalf.