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'We're going to help 300 children at Christmas with our Wrap for Jak'
Shields Gazette
|December 02, 2025
The annual Wrap for Jak returns to help disadvantaged children in South Tyneside.
Tony Fada has officially launched the 2025 Wrap for Jak
Tony Fada has officially launched the 2025 Wrap for Jak as he once again looks to make Christmas morning special for disadvantaged children across South Tyneside.
The event was founded eight years ago after Tony’s ten-year-old son, Jak Fada, died from a ruptured heart artery on November 6, 2017the day after his grandfather, Jimmy Tomlin, had sadly died.
While the official verdict recorded by the Coroner was a ruptured artery, Tony has always stated that Jak “died of a broken heart”, after struggling to come to terms with Jimmy’s passing.
This story is from the December 02, 2025 edition of Shields Gazette.
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