My name is Tom Morley, the drummer in Stephen's band, and I'll start with a story.

Yesterday I took Stephen to hospital. He's gone and got himself a brain tumour and has started a course of chemo and radiotherapy.

We waited 2 hours for the promised G4S transport to arrive at Stephen's house in North London. It never came, though every time we phoned they said "15 minutes".

Eventually we called a cab so Stephen didn't miss the third of his 30 treatments at UCLH on the Euston Road. He's having them every weekday for the next six weeks.

The whole of Stephen's right side, his guitar playing side, his writing side isn't working properly. It's hard for him to walk, swing his leg into a car and express what he wants to say. Words get mixed up, or they just don't appear. Luckily his sense of humour is intact and we had some laughs on the way.

After his treatment in the basement we staggered upstairs to the G4S Transport desk. "No record of him here. None at all. You'll have to take him back to the basement and re-book".

Anticipating another 2 hour wait post-treatment I had an UBER pick us up within 5 minutes and the driver was super-gracious helping Stephen into his car.

The point of this story is, since word has been getting out about Stephen's cancer, many people have been asking, "Is there anything I can do to help?"

Yes, there is.

When we got back I sat at the kitchen table with Stephen and Annabel and suggested their friends might like to pay for cabs to and from the hospital for the rest of his radiation treatment. After the understandable, "Oh no, we can't ask that" I explained that they would be doing us a favour.

This was my reasoning. We've all been entertained by Stephen over the years and £100 is a small payment to make. In fact it's taking advantage of his illness and cutting a deal because we all owe him £1000 at least I'm sure. They both laughed at this, and gave in.

Annabel already has an 'action desk' set up in the kitchen managing pills that need to be taken at certain times and people who need to be called to help Stephen get to hospital and back. So I offered, as a single issue thang, to collect £1200, which we calculated would be the cost using a reliable local cab company.

I would anticipate there will be some unforeseen costs on the horizon so if we go over the £1200 the cash will be welcome I'm sure.

And when Stephen is completely cured, should there be a slush fund, we can be confident he'll know what to do with it.