The chums of a terminally sick man have launched a fundraising marketing campaign to assist him attend the Glastonbury pageant subsequent week.
Nigel Stonehouse, 58, from Hartlepool, was not too long ago recognized with kidney most cancers, which has now unfold to his lungs. After receiving the terminal analysis, his buddies wished to fulfil his “dying want” of attending the pageant for a ultimate time.
The previous bricklayer, described by his buddies as a “pageant veteran”, has been going to Glastonbury for the final 30 years, and has watched headliners such because the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Johnny Money carry out.
He had been as a consequence of go to this week, however can now not journey for lengthy with out medical assist, so buddies have launched a fundraiser to pay for a helicopter to fly him there from North Tees hospital.
Talking to PA information company, Maria Beggs, one of many organisers of the fundraiser, stated Stonehouse was “feeling constructive” and that the assist had “given him a lift and one thing to hope for”. He was “very cussed and decided” and was wanting ahead to watching Diana Ross at this 12 months’s occasion, she stated.
The “great palliative care staff have assured him that they'll do all they will to make this occur,” one other organiser, Lizzie Beggs, wrote on the fundraising web page.
The trouble has already raised £9,000 from over 500 donations in the direction of the £12,000 price of chartering a helicopter. Supporters together with DJ Fatboy Slim, who's enjoying at this 12 months’s pageant, have been sharing the fundraising web page on Twitter.
Whereas they hope to “transfer heaven and earth” to get Stonehouse to Glastonbury, even when “only for a number of hours”, his buddies recognise that even when they fundraising goal is met, his situation might deteriorate, which means he could possibly be too unwell to attend. “Wherein case, the funds shall be donated to Glastonbury charities” states the fundraising web page.
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