EVENT THIS WEEKEND!!!!

This weekend Sienna, Scarlett & Lois ae swapping their football boots for running trainers as they take on the Chester 10K! 🏃‍♀️💙

Running to support her Sienna Malley’s charity – The North Wales and North West Pediatric Transport Service (NWTS). This incredible, life-saving service provides emergency transport children.

We know first-hand how vital this support is, having experienced childhood illnesses that required an ambulance.

The care provided by NWTS truly makes a difference to families when they need it most.

If you’d like to donate and support this amazing cause,......

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If you see them running on Sunday, please give them a big cheer to help them complete this challenge 👏💙

MY STORY X

My name is Sienna, I’m 15 years old, and I have two amazing sisters Scarlett (14) and Seren (10) — who are also my best friends.

Life for me is busy and full. I absolutely love football and feel incredibly lucky to spend so much of my time playing the sport I love. Alongside football I enjoy keeping active and spending time with my friends and family.

But my life could have been very different.

When I was just eight months old, I became extremely poorly and was admitted to Leighton Hospital in Crewe with a temperature of 40 degrees. At first the doctors believed I had tonsillitis, so I was sent home.

The following day, Sunday 12th December 2010, my mum and dad rushed me back to hospital because I had become even more unwell. It quickly became clear just how serious my condition was. I was so ill that the doctors and nurses at Leighton Hospital knew I needed specialist care, and I had to be transferred to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool.

Initially the doctors believed I had Streptococcal Septicaemia, but it later turned out that I also had Swine Flu. My condition was critical and doctors told my family that I possibly only had 24 hours to live.

However, it wasn’t as simple as putting me in an ambulance and sending me to Alder Hey. My tiny body had gone into Toxic Shock and was starting to completely shut down.

A specialist team from the North West and North Wales Paediatric Transport Service (NWTS) had to be called in at 4am, and it took them nearly ten hours to stabilise me before I could safely make the journey to Liverpool.

The NWTS had only been set up one month earlier, in November 2010, and is made up of an incredible team of doctors, nurses and paediatric specialists who transport critically ill children across the North West and North Wales to specialist hospitals like Alder Hey.

There is absolutely no doubt in my family’s mind that the NWTS team, along with the amazing doctors and nurses in the Alder Hey Intensive Care Unit, saved my life. We will always be incredibly grateful to them.

After I recovered, my mum spoke to the NWTS team to thank them and ask how we could support this incredible life-saving service.

Over the past ten years, with the help of our amazing family, friends and supporters, we have raised over £200,000 for this very special charity that is so close to our hearts.

We have taken part in lots of different fundraising challenges including skydives, a London to Paris bike ride, The Three Peaks Challenge, The Four Peaks Challenge, the Manchester 10k, the Paris Marathon, charity auction nights and race days, and many more events along the way.

My mum’s family business, Concept Car Credit, has also supported the fundraising by donating £10 for every car sold.

Thanks to all of this incredible support, we have helped purchase vital life-saving equipment for the NWTS team including Oxylog ventilators, training manikins and a Sonosite ultrasound machine — equipment that helps save the lives of critically ill children every single day.

After a short break from fundraising, we are now back and ready to go again, with a new goal in mind.

Our next target is to raise £250,000, which will allow us to help fund even more life-saving equipment for children who need it most.

We are starting this next chapter of fundraising this weekend, where I’ll be running the Chester 10km alongside my sister Scarlett and my Manchester City teammate Lois.

It feels really special to be doing this together — not just for me, but for all the children and families who may one day need the incredible care that saved my life.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to everyone who has supported us so far and helped us raise over £200,000.

Your support truly changes lives.

Lots of love,

Sienna x