Kaleigh was diagnosed on 19 April 2016 with D.I.P.G, an inoperable brain tumour. Around 40 children in the UK are diagnosed each year, mainly between the ages of 5-10, to which presently there is no cure and with little chance of survival beyond 9 months.

With no treatment available in the UK, Kaleigh's parents, Scott and Yang, have found experimental treatment in Mexico that is not available anywhere else in the world. This an expensive self funding treatment which costs £13,000 every couple of months and has resulted in a dramatic reduction in the size of Kaleigh's tumour. This is totally new territory for this illness and Kaleigh is one of the pioneers in the world. No child should need to go through this and every child should have the right of hope and a future. 

Kaleigh and her family have been incredibly brave in their fight against D.I.P.G. I am using my opportunity of running the London marathon to raise as much as possible to help this amazing family in their battle against this awful disease.

As the family are close friends of ours, please give whatever you can, to enable Kaleigh to continue her treatment in Mexico and a chance at life.   

Read Kaleigh's story:

http://kaleigh.ethanet.co.uk/

Read the Daily Mail article about Kaleigh and her family from Christmas Day:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5205145/Girl-DIPG-brain-tumour-one-longest-UK-survivors.html?ito=email_share_article-masthead

Sign the Parliamentary petition set up by Kaleigh's dad to get debated in Parliament:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/200017

The Bradley Lowery foundation has been set up to help families who need to fund raise for treatment or equipment, not available on the NHS. They support families through their fundraising campaign in order to help achieve their targets. They offer not only support, but grants where eligible and are offering help to Kaleigh.