My story

Brooke is six years old, she has Cerebral Palsy and is wheelchair bound.

 

There is a life changing operation called Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) which would make Brooke’s life so much better for her. It’s a special operation for children with spasticity cerebral palsy. This operation has a reported 100% success rate in its 24 year history but it is only currently available in America and more recently Bristol, however not available on our NHS.

 

We had hoped with support and contribution to raise the sum of £40,000, the amount required for the operation to take place in Bristol, unfortunately after numerous trips and a vigorous physio assessments, Brooke was deemed unsuitable by the specialist in Bristol.   Fortunately, however we now have renewed hope as we have applied directly to Dr Park and his team at St Louis, USA, and we are very pleased that they have accepted Brooke for the SDR treatment.  Dr Park and his team are confident that the operation on Brooke will be successful.

The procedure will now go ahead in November, but as you can appreciate the amount we require has risen to  £70,000 to get over to the United States, so we need your support more than ever to reach this target.

This amount will pay for her operation, pre operative and post operative care, physiotherapy and the equipment she will need afterwards.


It's heartbreaking when Brooke is left behind crying while all her sisters, brother and friends are running ahead or playing on playground equipment and Brooke just has to sit and watch. 

Please help us change Brooke's life forever.

 

 

Thank you to the Tree of Hope Children’s Charity for all their help.




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My updates 4

Merry Christmas everyone! We returned home last week from the USA & the 2 operations were a huge success & Brooke is getting on great although there is still a long way to go for us all. Our total money raised to date is £65,800. Let's give a final push in 2012 to get to 70K.

27/12/12 12:57

We have currently raised a total off £57.287.03, Brooke's operation has been successfully paid for & will go ahead on the 15th November. Thankyou so much to everyone who has got us this far, our daughters dream is so much closer now. We just need a final push to hit £70K. xx

27/09/12 22:16

As of today we are currently sitting on £22,833.02, we still have a number of pledged sponsorships to come in from March skydive and various events coming up this month so this figure will rise! Great work thank you everyone!

02/07/12 21:36

Brooke's justgiving page is standing at £6833.00 at the moment guys, which is awesome!!

28/03/12 22:09

My charity

Tree of Hope

Tree of Hope

Charity Registration No. 1149254 In Scotland SC042611

Tree of Hope offers hope to the families of sick children in the UK who need specialist medical surgery, treatment, therapy and equipment in order to free them from suffering, giving a better quality to their young lives. England & Wales 1043092 Scotland SCO4261 http://www.treeofhope.org.uk

Donations 502

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Donation by susan proctor on 30/09/12

£10.00

Donation by Anonymous on 30/09/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Keep it up Brooke! You will make it - I know you will!!!! You are one inspirational girl :-) All the best, @youauntynoah xxxx

Donation by Noah Young on 28/09/12

£20.00

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Donation by Debbie Sharp on 27/09/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

Good luck and god bless!

Donation by Nick Peacock on 27/09/12

£5.00

+ £1.25 Gift Aid

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Good luck Brooke x

Donation by Lynda Skinner on 27/09/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Salut Sarah, Im french and I got your website through twitter. Hope you get the surgery and get your dream come true !!

Donation by Rémy Chan on 27/09/12

£10.00

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Donation by Anonymous on 27/09/12

£5.00

+ £1.25 Gift Aid

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Donation by simon kidd on 27/09/12

£25.00

+ £6.25 Gift Aid

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Good luck!

Donation by Andrew Spencer on 27/09/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Donation by Anonymous on 27/09/12

£3.50

+ £0.88 Gift Aid

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Donation by Charlotte Metcalf on 26/09/12

£3.00

+ £0.75 Gift Aid

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Donation by Emma O'Reilly on 26/09/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Donation by Shills on 26/09/12

£5.00

+ £1.25 Gift Aid

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Hope this helps

Donation by Nuck Chorris on 26/09/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Donation by Anonymous on 26/09/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Only wish I could have given you the lot, hopefully you will get to your target with Twitter xx

Donation by sarah walton on 26/09/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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A few less drinks on Friday night to change a young girls life... Easy decision!! Good Luck Brooke!

Donation by Nicola Rachel on 26/09/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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With lots of hope from the Davies-Chinnock family x

Donation by Kirsty Davies on 26/09/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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All the very best Brooke x

Donation by White Goodman (KUMB) on 25/09/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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Good luck with your fundraising! <3 x

Donation by Rachel Conway on 24/09/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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I look forward to hearing on Suffolk Radio that Brooke's operation has been a complete success-good luck sweetheart.

Donation by Jean on 22/09/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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Big hugs to Brooke xxx

Donation by Anonymous on 21/09/12

£5.00

+ £1.25 Gift Aid

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We wish you every success in your fundraising.

Donation by Lonham Marine on 21/09/12

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I have a granddaughter your age and I hope you will be able to run around like she does x

Donation by Lynn Andrews on 21/09/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

Donation summary

  • * Online donations$20,803.46
  • Offline donations$75,006.04
  • Text donations$331.08
  • Total raised$96,140.58
  • Gift Aid$3,773.37

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