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 501

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Wishing Brooke all the very best for the future and hope that you reach your target very soon.

Donation by Martin Smith and all from CGL Ltd on 12/06/12

£500.00

+ £125.00 Gift Aid

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with the best wishes for the future from Stowmarket Striders

Donation by ron ames on 11/06/12

£183.00

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Donation by tanya young on 09/06/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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I hope this donation will help a little to your target so precious little Brooke will have a chance to walk :) Good Luck!

Donation by Helene Noller on 08/06/12

£22.00

+ £5.50 Gift Aid

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Donation by A well-wisher on 08/06/12

£20.00

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Good Luck, I really hope you raise the money! xxx

Donation by Jenny-Ruth Walder on 08/06/12

£10.00

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Good luck and I hope everything works out

Donation by Shaya Raymond on 07/06/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Just Nadine's £10.00 for her walk. x

Donation by Carmen Harwood on 06/06/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Hoping the goal gets met! Lots of thoughts and wishes from Florida.

Donation by Karen Kuchar on 05/06/12

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well done on the skydive guys

Donation by JAMIE and HANNAH on 04/06/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Good luck Nadine! I'm sure you'll do brilliantly! xxx

Donation by Heidi Cobb on 02/06/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Sorry it's taken so long to donate I meant to sponsor the sky dive xx

Donation by Stephen Dunnage on 01/06/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Donation by catherine rudd on 01/06/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

Donation by Kerry Quigley on 30/05/12

£3.00

+ £0.75 Gift Aid

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Hi sarah this is £10 for skydive and £5 for Nadines walk x

Donation by Clare Balaam on 29/05/12

£15.00

+ £3.75 Gift Aid

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Donation by Anonymous on 28/05/12

£2.00

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Donation by Anonymous on 28/05/12

£2.00

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For Brooke for Nadine's walk well done missy you are a fab big sister !!!! xx good luck xxx

Donation by Carol Anderson on 27/05/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Donation by Kevin Howells on 27/05/12

£6.00

+ £1.50 Gift Aid

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Send you my love and best wishes to you all and hope you get the money very soon.

Donation by Anonymous on 27/05/12

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God bless you Brooke and I pray that you will achieve all your dreams.

Donation by Martin MacIver on 27/05/12

£50.00

+ £12.50 Gift Aid

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Donation by Anonymous on 25/05/12

£5.00

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Donation by Anonymous on 25/05/12

£2.00

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I wish I could offer more! Best wishes, and god bless.

Donation by Stuart Peters on 24/05/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Prayers and love,

Donation by A friend :) on 24/05/12

Donation summary

  • * Online donations$20,985.49
  • Offline donations$75,827.62
  • Text donations$334.71
  • Total raised$97,147.82
  • Gift Aid$3,803.24

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