The end of year celebration fundraiser for a research foundation which was formed last year following the sudden death of a teenager, ended on a sad note when a camera used to picture all the people at the event went missing.

Photographer Toby Parkes misplaced the camera he had used to picture the special event, which marked the end of the first year of the Alexander Jansons Foundation and his family’s celebrations at raising £83,000 in just 12 months.

The foundation was started following the sad passing of 18-year-old Alexander, who died when walking home to Penn and was later discovered to have Myocarditis - an inflammation of the heart muscle.

Since his death, parents Andy and Pamela and brother Tomas were keen to fund a three-year project – which they need to raise £80,000 each year for - to discover more about the affliction.

And, over the course of the evening they were able to raise an extra £4,000, but the pictures they hoped to publish and use to spread the word of the foundation may not be seen as Mr Parkes reportedly left the camera in a taxi.

Patricia Dean, a spokesman for the foundation, said: “It’s not the camera so much as all the photographs taken of this great event which have now gone.

“We raised £4000 on the night so we did have a great result but unfortunately no photographs to show for it.”

If you have any information about the whereabouts of the camera, please email andrew.colley@london.newsquest.co.uk or speak to the foundation by visiting www.alexanderjansonsfoundation.org