Friends of the late Tom Ousby have been coming up with ideas for fundraising campaigns in his memory.

The popular DJ and musician, who lived in Star Road, Hillingdon, was just 19 when he died after falling from a hotel fire escape in the Mallorcan resort of Magaluf in August last year.

A group of friends plan to run the Hillingdon Half Marathon in March to raise money for the Nystagmus Network, a charity close to the hearts of Tom’s family.

One of them is George Clarke-Mills, whose mother Mary has been a pilates instructor for nine years. Through her Pilates 4 Life classes in Uxbridge, she has supported the Lynda Jackson Macmillan Centre at Mount Vernon Hospital since 2009.

This year, she plans to support the Nystagmus Network too.

“We decided we wanted to raise money in Tom’s memory. He was so talented – he was an absolute joy and privilege to know, and such a good friend to George,” she said.

“A very close friend of mine, Anne Walder, also died last year from cancer and the Lynda Jackson Centre gave her so much.

“It’s a tragedy that both of these people have died but we wanted to say ‘this person was an inspiration and we have done this in their memory’. It helps their memory to live on and it helps other people in the process.”

Tom, who was a pupil at Bishopshalt School, was seven when he was diagnosed with nystagmus, an eye condition which, in extreme cases, can cause serious loss of vision.

His mother, Lea, told the Gazette that her son never let the condition get in his way. She and Tom’s father John, suggested the eye charity to friends wanting to do something in tribute to Tom.

“We wanted to be able to give something back,” Mrs Ousby said.

“Mary’s son was a good friend of Tom and she wrote us a letter saying she was going to fundraise for him, which is really nice of her.”

Mrs Clarke-Mills created a pilates podcast for her 200 members to buy and an impressive £1,500 will be split between the two charities.