A BRITAIN’S Got Talent semi-finalist has written two songs for good causes ahead of her big homecoming concert in the Ribble Valley this autumn.

Ella Shaw penned new tracks for The Foundation for Ribble Valley Families and for the Stay Drive, Stay Alive charity.

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The Clitheroe-based charity opens this month and will help the most vulnerable families in the area, including early-help interventions designed to improve the social and emotional health of the whole family.

And Ella — a former pupil of St Mary’s RC Primary School at Langho and St Augustine’s RC High School at Billington — has written Why, which tackles self harm, for the Trustee Board member Stephen Blackburn, who she worked with before.

Stephen was a pastoral support worker at Park High School in Colne — making young people feel valued, developing their talents and giving them hope — before being employed as the schools and projects development manager at The Grand, also in Clitheroe.

Ella took part in The Grand’s X Factor-style talent show, Grab — The Event, in 2012, finishing runner-up to Karen Wilkinson.

She’s also recording Safe Drive, Stay Alive for the the charity that is trying to reduce young drivers crashing.

It uses real people, including nurses, police officers and ambulance staff along with family members of those lost in collisions, to tell their own personal stories of tragedy and loss.

She said: “I was at one of their presentations which involved members of the 999 team, the people who deal with the consequences.

“They saw I had tweeted about it and they asked if I would write a song for them and hopefully they’ll be releasing it and using it as their theme tune.”

Later this year she will perform a thank-you to fans with a show based on her life at Clitheroe Grand, for Alopecia UK.

The teenager, who belted out an impressive cover of Rozalla’s 1991 hit Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good) to the praise of the Zambian acid house queen, suffered from hair loss as a youngster.

She said: “It was quite a hard time, I lost all the hair off my head when I was in my last year of primary school.

“It kind of showed me the other side of life from being picked on, it now made me a better person to not pick on somebody else.”

Ella has invited fellow contestants and friends she met while performing on the televised talent show, The Sakyi Four, who drew comparisons from the judges with the Jackson 5, to perform, along with Emily Billington, Breaking Jazz and Cian Gleeson.

A spokesman for the venue said: “The concert will tell a story of Ella’s life and the journey she’s had over the past 18 years, with emotional lyrics and her mesmerising voice.”