A mother and father have returned to the site where they feel they “lost” their son to erect two memorial benches looking out across the scenes he loved the most.

Chris “Brown Bear” Brown died last September, aged 24, 11 days after he suffered a brain haemorrhage while playing rugby for Silsden Park Rangers.

The match against Meltham All Blacks took place in Silsden Park, where the benches now sit overlooking two poignant views close to Chris’s heart.

His mum, Linda, from Cornwall Avenue, in Silsden, said: “One bench looks out over the rugby pitch where Silsden Park Rangers play and one looks over the play area where Chris used to love taking his nephew Lennon — the apple of his eye — to play.

“It also looks over the football pitch where Silsden White Stars play, who Chris supported.

“Chris’s dad, Steve, was at his side when he became ill and took over trying to revive him and that is the place where he feels like we really lost him.”

The couple, along with Chris’s two younger brothers, Adam and Mark, older sister Caroline and close friends James Whitehead and Eddie Woodrup, spent an emotional moment remembering their beloved “Browny” as the benches were erected last Friday.

The family, along with Mr Woodrup, Mr Whitehead and a lot of support from Chris’s brother-in-law, Kev Kerry, has now set up a charity called the Chris Brown Trust in his memory.

Starting with a cake sale at Café Cake, on Briggate, yesterday, the trust has a host of fundraising events planned over the next few months.

There will be collection buckets at Keighley Cougars’ home game this Sunday and over the following bank holiday weekend volunteers will be out collecting money in Silsden in support of three women who are climbing the Yorkshire Three Peaks to raise money and one of Chris’s friends, who is having his legs waxed.

On July 10, a day before Chris would have celebrated his 25th birthday, there is a fancy dress football tournament with raffles and other entertainment at Silsden Football and Cricket Club.