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Myself and Luke are going to brave a Boxing Day dip to raise as much money as possible for this special little boy 🩵

Benny, who is a lovely friend to our little boy Oliver, is a happy and caring four-year-old who loves dinosaurs, Ninja Turtles, pizza, and dreams of playing for Newcastle United when grows up. In February 2023, at just two years old, he was diagnosed with stage 4 high-risk neuroblastoma. After completing treatment in March 2025, he began DFMO, a relapse-prevention drug. Sadly, scans in September showed that Benny’s cancer had returned. His family is now fundraising in the hope that they can travel to Rome for CAR T-cell therapy.

Four-year-old Benny is a happy, kind and caring little boy who loves to play and laugh. He adores football and wants to play for his favourite team, Newcastle United, when he grows up.

In February 2023, just after his second birthday and three weeks before his sister Zara was born, Benny was diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma – a rare and aggressive childhood cancer with only a 40-50% chance of long-term survival at diagnosis.

Benny completed frontline treatment in March 2025 and started DMFO, a drug that aims to prevent relapse. His family had started to enjoy life without the restrictions that treatment imposes when, in September, a routine scan showed an irregularity in his lung. Surgery later confirmed his parents’ worst fears: Benny’s neuroblastoma had returned.

His parents, Nicola and Daniel, have decided to fundraise so that Benny can access potentially life-saving treatment to get back into remission. Because he has relapsed, his treatment options are more limited. Treatments not available through the NHS can cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. Following promising results from a CAR T-cell trial in Rome, they are fundraising in the hope that he will be able to travel there to access this therapy.