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The Hope For Laura Fund www.hopeforlaura.co.uk
Event: The Hope For Laura Fund
$158,098.30 raised of $272,119.95 target
53 donations
My Target:
$272,119.95
$158,098.30 raised so far
How to make a donation
Donate online at - www.justgiving.com/hopeforlaurafund
By mobile internet Scan this code on your smartphone to go straight to Ben Hymas's page.
By text message to donate £10 Text HOPE85 £10
to 70070
My story
Welcome to the Hope for Laura Fund!
My name is Ben, I am 31 and live in Kent with my fiancee Laura, 25 and our young son Jacob, who is 2 years old. I started this appeal in May 2011 to give Laura the option of what we hope is potential life saving treatment in America, which financially is way out of our reach.
When I first met Laura three years ago I knew instantly that this beautiful, bright and energetic girl was the one I wanted to spend my life with. She is loyal, kind hearted and has a smile so infectious that it can light up any room. In September 2009 she gave me our precious son Jacob. I felt like the luckiest man on earth, we started planning to marry and grow our family.
However...
Laura's health slowly declined over the year following giving birth, she never fully recovered after having Jacob and was mis-diagnosed with a range of things including exhaustion. Then in later November 2010 she started to lose the feeling and co-ordination in her right arm which prompted an urgent MRI scan at the hospital...
The results arrived on Christmas Eve 2010 and shattered our family. Laura was been diagnosed with a rare Brain Cancer and unfortunately a biopsy revealed that it is the most agressive type of (grade 4) brain cancer, not only is it inoperable because of its size and location but it is also deemed incurable using available cancer therapies in the UK, which can only at best slow down growth.
The average life expectancy is poor, fewer than 4% people diagnosed live for 5 years, this cancer is very rare in Laura's age group, there are less than 50 cases of her age group reported every year in the UK and there is currently no known cause.
However a clinic in America has a pioneering treatment which, according to our own research we feel has the potential to be very effective against this type of cancer without harming the body. The clinic has been running for over 25 years and has some amazing results with this awful disease (many many 10 & 20 year+ survivors of brain cancers).
Unfortunately this treatment is experimental and not available via the NHS so we have to pay for this ourselves, the cost is approximately £90,000 per year and most patients will require anything from 2 to 4 years treatment. Although this is a large amount of money, i believe you cannot put a price on saving a life, especially that of a young mum.
I hope and pray that through fundraising and generosity we will be able to acheive our dream to raise enough money to give Laura this potentially life saving treatment and beat this awful condition, giving her the chance to see our son Jacob grow up.
please dig deep and do everything you can to help!
*100% of your donation goes to Laura and any Gift Aid funds go directly to our sponsoring charity "Yes To Life" http://www.yestolife.org.uk
YES TO LIFE is a new charitable initiative to open up a positive future for people with cancer in the UK by supporting an integrative approach to cancer care.
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My charity
Yes to Life
Charity Registration No. 1112812
Yes to Life, a pioneering UK charity, is the first organisation of its kind to give direct support to cancer patients in accessing an integrative approach to their cancer care, one that draws on both orthodox medicine and the best of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM).
Donations 53
Donation by Anonymous on 20/04/13
£3.00
Donation by Anonymous on 20/04/13
£5.00
Donation by Anonymous on 16/12/12
£10.00
Donation by Anonymous on 21/11/12
£5.00
+ £1.25 Gift Aid
Donation by Anonymous on 01/09/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Donation by Anonymous on 30/08/12
£11.00
+ £2.75 Gift Aid
Donation by Anonymous on 26/08/12
£5.00
Donation by Anonymous on 07/08/12
£2.00
Donation by Rachael Howarth on 06/08/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Donation by Anonymous on 01/08/12
£3.00
Wishing you all the best xxx
Donation by Rachel Kendall on 29/07/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Donation by Peter Richmond on 04/07/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Keep Going Hunni, So proud of you. Lots of Love Rach xxx
Donation by Rachel Hammond on 30/06/12
£30.00
+ £7.50 Gift Aid
Donation by Anonymous on 28/06/12
£1.00
Donation by Anonymous on 28/06/12
£5.00
Donation by jenny brickdale on 28/06/12
£3.00
+ £0.75 Gift Aid
Donation by Danni Broughton on 20/05/12
£5.00
+ £1.25 Gift Aid
Donation by Anonymous on 30/04/12
£3.00
Donation by Anonymous on 25/04/12
£5.00
Donation by Anonymous on 22/04/12
£5.00
+ £1.25 Gift Aid
Lots of love Me, My Mum :), Lynsey and the lovely people at BM Weybridge (especially Andrew and Chris) xxx
Donation by Rachel Hammond on 13/04/12
£80.76
+ £20.19 Gift Aid
Donation by Anonymous on 12/04/12
£5.00
Donation by Anonymous on 02/04/12
£5.00
Donation by Dawn Fisher on 24/03/12
£5.00
+ £1.25 Gift Aid
Hey! Awesome news on your blog! Very happy that one of my crazy bingo schemes has helped someone who actually deserves it :D! James x
Donation by Rachel Hicks and Daniel Nickells on 24/03/12
£500.00
+ £125.00 Gift Aid
Donation summary
- * Online donations$1,311.86
- Offline donations$156,484.09
- Text donations$302.36
- Total raised$158,098.30
- Gift Aid$361.22
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