Fancy having a team of soldiers doing your housework or sorting out the garden?

Well your dreams could come true, thanks to a charity auction to raise money for life-saving machines.

Woodbridge couple Robi and Kate Fox have organised the auction in a bid to highlight and fundraise for the national charity CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young).

Their sporty 13-year-old daughter Laura collapsed and died suddenly at home after retuning from a family holiday more than three years ago.

It was revealed that the bubbly youngster had been suffering from a heart condition that kills between four and eight young people a week in the UK.

Her parents had no idea she was suffering from the condition and in the last three years have been tirelessly fundraising to buy ECG machines that can detect the problems in youngsters early on.

There has been a huge response to the charity auction from businesses in the area, who have donated a host of prizes ranging from a silk scarf to a helicopter trip for four as well as tickets for the London Eye.

Robi, a policeman said he is planning to get soldiers, police and nurses from the area to volunteer themselves for auction to carry out tasks for the winning bidders.

The charity has already bought one ECG machine for £12000 and given it to the Framfield House Doctor’s surgery in St John Street, Woodbridge, where Mrs Fox works, but now the couple, from Borrett Place, Woodbridge are fundraising to buy another for the county.

They are also campaigning to get regular screening sessions in schools and for sports groups – as is already done in the United States as a matter of course.

The spark that off, they are hoping to organise a weekend screening session for anyone who might want it.

Thousands of pounds have been raised within the county and last month, Dr Gary Taylor from the Framfield House surgery ran the London marathon and raised more than £3000 for CRY.

PC Fox said: “It is a national charity but we have a local fund so they money comes back to us to be spent here.  The support we have received is unbelievable, it really is.”

Research is going on into the heart condition at St George’s Hospital in London.

PC Fox said: “When you have a young person die and the pathologists can’t find a specific cause, they say it is natural causes.  But there is nothing more unnatural than the death of a young person.”