A WOOLTON Hill teenager is set to release a charity single to pull in the pounds for a worthy cause.

Eighteen-year-old Emma Lawrence, of Woolton Hill, is releasing a charity single entitled You Are on July 10 to raise funds for national charity, Living Paintings.

The charity publishes audio and tactile books which give blind children the chance to enjoy reading picture books in the same way as their friends who have their sight.

Living Paintings lend out the books through a free postal library and are funded entirely through grants and donations.

The 18-year-old, who will be taking up a place at the prestigious British and Irish Modern Music Institute, which has nurtured talent such as George Ezra and James Bay, has already released two singles and has had a top 40 hit in the iTunes singer/ songwriter charts.

Emma said: “When I volunteered for them I saw firsthand how Living Paintings really changes the lives of blind children and I wanted to do something more to help.

“One mum told me how her daughter’s ‘very dark world has been made bright’ by their work and that’s what gave me the idea.

“In You Are, I refer to coming through dark times. It all just seemed to make sense.”

Camilla Oldland, chief executive of the charity, added: “It is simply amazing that Emma is supporting our charity in this way. As we have just celebrated reaching 10,000 blind and partially sighted people with our free service, we thought it fitting to set a target of getting 10,000 downloads of the single.

“The money raised will help us literally transform the lives of so many more blind children.”

The single can be downloaded from iTunes from July 10.