Girl’s tasty treats help cancer victims (From The Bolton News)

Girl’s tasty treats help cancer victims

8:58am Thursday 10th January 2013 in News

A KIND-HEARTED girl has raised more than £120 to help cancer sufferers.

It had been suggested to 10-year-old Delanie Lever, who is visually impaired, that she could donate her money to a sight charity — but she was determined to help people with cancer.

She baked a batch of cakes and sold them to raise money for Bolton Hospice.

She sold the 16 cakes in front of her home in Templecombe Drive home, Sharples, and raised £7.

Not satisfied with the amount, she decided to make a pamper hamper to be given away in a raffle.

She sold 115 tickets and raised another £120.

Delanie, a year five pupil at High Lawn Community Primary School, made the hamper up of items donated to her for her fundraising effort, including chocolate, a bottle of wine, body butter, a back scrubber, candles and a bath bomb.

She said: “I felt it was right to raise money as I have always wanted to help people.

“My mum knows a lot about people with cancer and I decided it was a nice thing to do. I might do something else to raise money in the future.”

Delaine’s mother, Sarah, works for Bolton Community and Voluntary Services (CVS).

She said: “She has always been thoughtful. I work for CVS and I talk about some of the stories I have come across and she wanted to raise money.

“Delanie is visually impaired, so I suggested a sight charity but she said: ‘I won’t die from my eyesight and people with cancer need help’.

“She is so selfless. When she raised the money from selling cakes, she said she felt £7 wasn’t enough. The draw was done in her school assembly.”

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