*** BREAKING NEWS***

We are proud to announce that we have reached our challenge and raised a staggering £250,000 for Melissa’s Fighting Fund. We have also received over 26,000 hits to Melissa’s website.

Both of these are amazing achievements. Well done! Congratulations! A BIG thank you to everyone that has kindly donated, fundraised, clicked and contributed to Melissa’s Fighting Fund.

Special thanks to all the event organisers and to everyone that has participated in various sponsored events and help raise such an fantastic amount.

It is important for us to re-iterate that if we continue to exceed the final cost of Melissa's medical treatment, this money will be donated to individual cases, the support of research into brain tumours or funding into advanced brain tumour treatment in the UK. All money donated to Melissa’s Fighting Fund will be for Melissa’s treatment only.

Melissa, James and her family would like to extend a personal thanks to all their family and friends who have supported the following fund raising event:

1. ★Abaya Club Night
   

2. ★Girls Night Out - Windsor Pub Crawl
   

3. ★Christmas Charity Auction And Dinner at Hazlewood Golf Club
   

4. ★Brentford Football Club Match Day Collection
   

5. ★Charity 12-hour Run at Virgin Active Gym
   

6. ★Matthew Plaice Sponsored Babysit
   

7. ★Girls Night Out – Kingston Pub Crawl
   

8. ★Haydens Hair Flair Salon
   

9. ★The Shepperton Folk Collective Christmas Hoot' Nanny Gig
   

10. ★British Airways Christmas Raffle
    

11. ★Christmas Eve Charity Raffle at the White Horse Pub
    

12. ★Staines Town Football Club Match Day Collection
    

13. ★London Welsh Rugby Club Match Day Collection
    

14. ★St Ignatius Roman Catholic Primary School
    

15. ★New Year Bedfont Lakes 10k Sponsored Walk
    

16. ★Melissa’s Pink Ball at The Royal Navy Club
    

17. ★Ex-pupils from Bishop Wand School – Staines Pub Crawl
    

18. ★Cathay Pacific Airways Staff Quiz
    

19. ★Do Me A Squeeze Night at Abaya Night Club
    

20. ★Charity Triathlon at Meadhurst Gym
    

21. ★Hounslow Borough Council - Cake Sale
    

22. ★Souled Out Gig at Broxbourne Civic Hall, Hertfordshire
    

23. ★Black Tie Ball at Epsom Race Course
    

24. ★Group Skydive Activity
    

25. ★London Irish Rugby Management Team – Coaching Session
    

26. ★Pass The Pom Event
    

27. ★Paypal Donations
    

28. ★HSBC Online Donations and Cheques
    

And Finally....

Melissa would like to say a big heartfelt thank you to St. Ignatius Roman Catholic Primary School for raising an outstanding £24,000 towards Melissa’s Fighting Fund. This is an outstanding amount! The support and kindness received from Melissa’s headmistress, teachers, colleagues, pupils, parents and governors has been overwhelming. We are all very touched by your kind generosity. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.  

On behalf of Melissa’s parents, Lorraine & Mark Huggins - we would like to say a big thank you to British Airways for all their kind support, contribution and fundraising for Melissa’s Fighting Fund. The donations received from management, staff, colleagues and retailer’s has been amazing. Thank you to everyone in Terminal 1 and all other departments. We would also like to extend a personal thank you to the British Airways Engineering Supply Chain and Technical Information Management Team for their generous donations.