A Douglas nursery is aiming to be Christmas number one with a charity single released in collaboration with Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

St Joseph’s Nursery, in Snaefell Road, Willaston, is working with Manchester- based production company Small Boy Productions to create the single, which will launch in December.

The song, called ’I’ve Been Good This Year’, was originally written for the nursery’s Christmas nativity. Owner Emily Cattle described it as a ’traditional, nice and happy Christmas song’.

Mrs Cattle added: ’We wrote the song for the nativity show and worked with Small Boy Productions who put the music to it and suggested we could release it as a single to raise money for Alder Hey.’

For Mrs Cattle and her husband Rob, supporting Alder Hey is also very personal.

Their daughter Catherine, who is three, was born with an issue with her heart which led to her having surgery on Boxing Day 2015.

Mrs Cattle said: ’We were very lucky that Catherine has had a seamless recovery. She was one of the youngest to have the type of surgery she had but because of her condition, it became necessary to do the surgery early.’

Mel Moon and Imogen Storey, from Small Boy Productions and Esche Haus Recording Studio are working with St Joseph’s on the single.

Mel said: ’Emily contacted us to work on the nativity and told me Catherine’s story and it really struck a chord with me as I also have had cardiac problems.’

Speaking to the Examiner on Saturday when the video and audio was recorded in the nursery, Mel said that the song would need ’as much support locally and nationally that it can get’.

Mrs Cattle added: ’It would be amazing for us to make number one and we hope the whole island can get behind the single.

’As well as the money it will raise, this is about raising awareness for just how much work Alder Hey has done and continues to do for so many children and families in the island.’

We will provide readers with an update when the single becomes available.