PRIME Minister David Cameron took a break from Nato Summit preparations to pen a letter to a super-fundraising Barry schoolboy.

Palmerston Primary pupil recently presented the Marie Curie hospice, in Penarth, with £1,130 which he raised – with the aid of friends Dan Quigley, 10, Jake Quigley, 7, and Brooke Leigh Seer, 8 – through making and selling loom bands to family and friends for the charity.

Jack’s dad, 47-year-old Martin Rees-Davies, spent time at the hospice suffering from cancer and died in April, this year.

The youngster came up with the idea and also boosted the proceeds by selling a Marie Curie/Barry Town United blue and yellow bracelet to Vale MP Alun Cairns and getting him to buy a British, Wales and Marie Curie bracelet for the PM.

Mr Cameron wrote to Jack to thank him personally.

Mr Cameron, in his Downing Street letter dated September 2, said: “Alun Cairns MP has recently passed on to me your kind gift of three loom bands. I understand that each band has a unique meaning, a British, Welsh and Marie Curie band, and I wanted to write to personally thank you for such a thoughtful present.

“I am so impressed that you are using something you have made to raise money for such a worthwhile charitable cause. I can only imagine the time you must put in to making your own loom bands, and you should be proud of what you have achieved through your fundraising efforts so far.

“Thank you, once again, for such a generous and thoughtful gift. This comes with my very best wishes for the future.”

Vale MP Mr Cairns said Jack and his friends had made such a contribution to the fundraising efforts for Marie Curie locally.

He said: “I know the Prime Minister was delighted to have received the three specially made loom bands.

“It was a privilege to present Jack with a personal letter from David Cameron.

“I still have my very own loom band that I wear in Westminster, and will be taking Jack and his family for a tour of Parliament later this year. I encourage any youngsters that have an idea for fundraising in the local community to go for it.”

Jack’s mum, Becci Murlis, said Jack had been thrilled with the gesture.

She said: “He was so excited he was showing the street.”