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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Congratulations on your journey so far and a massive good luck for the journey ahead.

Donation by Jenna from BelvoirIpswich on 22/05/13

£30.00

+ £7.50 Gift Aid

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Best of luck for the golf day everyone. See you there

Donation by Chris Smith on 21/04/13

£100.00

+ £25.00 Gift Aid

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This is for the Ufford Park Golf Day on sunday hope we raise loads and we all have a good day thanks Guys all the best from SM DIRECT

Donation by STUART MCBURNEY on 19/04/13

£100.00

+ £25.00 Gift Aid

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Go Chris Drury!

Donation by Scott Sully on 18/03/13

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

Love your smile, so happy to see you standing. Your courage will win you through your way to walk, hugs to you and your wonderful mum and dad!

Donation by Anne Smith on 14/03/13

£10.00

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good luck!!!

Donation by sarah fry on 05/03/13

£5.00

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Lovely to see you walking at All Hallows Church at the Trianon Concert on Saturday Brooke. All our love

Donation by Pauline Lawrance on 26/02/13

£25.00

+ £6.25 Gift Aid

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I missed the Trianon fundraising concert on Saturday, so here's a donation instead!

Donation by Izzy Ixer on 25/02/13

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Hello Brooke I truly hope you walk soon May you and your family remain blessed

Donation by Dianelys Snow on 20/02/13

£10.00

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Wishing Brooke the bright future she deserves X

Donation by Andreas & Alma Grundtvig on 17/02/13

£100.00

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Donation by sharna taber on 16/02/13

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Donation by Aileen Munro on 15/02/13

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Donation by Anonymous on 09/02/13

£20.00

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May all your wishes come true from Lynda and the pink ladies

Donation by Anonymous on 30/01/13

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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Good luck.

Donation by Mike Bellis on 15/01/13

£20.00

Donation by Olwen Britton on 10/01/13

£5.00

+ £1.25 Gift Aid

I hope it all happens in 2013! Best wishes

Donation by @adrianmelrose on 10/01/13

£50.00

+ £12.50 Gift Aid

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with love from westbridge pru

Donation by sharon williets on 09/01/13

£55.00

+ £13.75 Gift Aid

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Donation by Anonymous on 08/01/13

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Merry Christmas, have a great time xx

Donation by DJM on 21/12/12

£15.00

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Hope this helps a little :)

Donation by Laura Bowen on 21/12/12

£2.00

+ £0.50 Gift Aid

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Here's my donation for today. I hope this helps to make this little girl's wish come true.

Donation by Andrew Moore on 21/12/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Money I would have spent on Christmas cards. Suspect this will be of more use. All the best - Alastair, Carolyn & Ella

Donation by Alastair Macartney on 17/12/12

£25.00

+ £6.25 Gift Aid

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Instead of Christmas cards I want to donate the money I would have spent to Brooke's Wish.

Donation by Lindsay Symis on 17/12/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

Donation by david brown on 12/12/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Donation summary

  • * Online donations$20,754.77
  • Offline donations$74,830.47
  • Text donations$330.30
  • Total raised$95,915.54
  • Gift Aid$3,764.54

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