A NURSERY took part in their own Santa Dash this week to help raise funds for a 21-year-old cancer fighter to receive potentially life-saving treatment abroad.

Pupils and staff at Crank Nursery raised £2,000 for Chris Carberry, who returned to his former nursery to thank the children and staff – many of which cared for him as a baby.

Chris, from Rainford, is fighting a rare form of bone cancer for the third time in two years and has been told he has two tumours in his abdomen and potentially others in his shoulder and ribs.

But given the severity and aggression of the relapse, he has began looking at alternative treatments and clinical trials abroad.

However, these cannot be funded by the NHS.

Pioneering ‘T Cell Treatment’ in the USA is one option Chris and his family are looking into, as well as ‘Dendretic cell therapy’ in India.

Such treatments are likely to cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, so Chris has set his current target at £200,000.

To donate visit gofundme.com/chris-lifesaving-treatment

For updates on Chris follow his blog on Facebook at The Next Step For Chris or on his website chriscarberry.co.uk.