Midnight Walk to help Georgia campaign

Buy photos Deputy manager Kelly Taylor, Sophie Harper, three, Scruff, Charlie Jelfs, two, and nursery nurse Claire Bruce help raise funds for Georgia. Picture by Marcus Mingins 3912014MMR

A NINE-mile Midnight Walk will be held next Friday (October 5) to raise funds for Hope for Georgia - the campaign to raise 20,000 to send Bromsgrove girl Georgia Almquest to America for specialist stem cell treatment.

Georgia, who is two next month, has cerebral palsy, which means she is unable to hold her head up, sit or crawl. The stem cell procedure will improve her quality of life and is her only chance of walking.

Next Fridays walk will start at McDonalds in Wychbold and go from there to the Castle Nursery, based at BHI Parkside, and back again.

The event has been organised by Claire Bruce from Castle Nursery and will conclude a whole week of events which are being held there.

On Monday (October 1), there will be a pyjama party for staff and children and on Tuesday (October 2) there will be a bake off where each of the nurserys rooms will compete against each other. The cakes will be sold off at the end for the cause.

On Wednesday (October 3), there will be a toddle waddle, on Thursday (October 4) a sponsored teddy bears picnic and next Friday, a pyjama day before the sponsored midnight walk.

Claire told The Standard: We cannot get over the response we have had so far.

We want anyone else who wants to take part in the midnight walk to get in touch - the more the merrier.

After seeing the appeal on Facebook, I just had to organise something for Georgia - shes a local girl and we need to help her.

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Midnight Walk to help Georgia campaign