More than 40 schools and nurseries join Anchorsholme Primary's non-uniform day for Isabelle Grundy campaign

A huge non-uniform day collaboration between more than 40 Fylde coast schools and nurseries today could help smash the £200k target to help pay for a little girl's cancer treatment in America.
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Anchorsholme Primary School pupil Isabelle Grundy, aged six, was diagnosed in July with High Risk Stage Four Neuroblastoma - a rare type of cancer that affects mostly babies and young children.

Parents Louisa Moss, 33, and father Blaine Grundy, 35, need to raise £200,000 for life-saving treatment in the USA that is not readily available in the UK.

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Their close friend Emma Robinson, whose son Theo is a friend of Isabelle's at school, set up a GoFundMe page in January this year to help them, along with pal Samantha Douglas.

Anchorsholme Primary Academy staged a non-uniform  day - and more than 40 schools and nurseries on the Fylde coast did the same, in supportAnchorsholme Primary Academy staged a non-uniform  day - and more than 40 schools and nurseries on the Fylde coast did the same, in support
Anchorsholme Primary Academy staged a non-uniform day - and more than 40 schools and nurseries on the Fylde coast did the same, in support

Emma, 34, of Loxley Place, Anchorshole, also asked the school to stage a non-uniform day to raise some extra funds.

Other schools agreed to join in and the big event was staged across the coast today (Friday February 11).

Participants were asked to wear yellow and/or blue, the colours of the charity Neuroblastoma UK which helps patients.

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Incredibly, by Friday evening the fund had reached the impressive target of £186,600 - but Emma was confident that the total target of £200,000 could be smashed once all the money comes in from the schools.

Pupils from Anchorsholme Academy dress in the school colours and run around the track to raise money for Isabelle GrundyPupils from Anchorsholme Academy dress in the school colours and run around the track to raise money for Isabelle Grundy
Pupils from Anchorsholme Academy dress in the school colours and run around the track to raise money for Isabelle Grundy

She said: "I have not heard from all the schools but the ones who have got back to me say they have each raised more than £1,000 from today's non-uniform day.

"I'm confident that by the time all this money has rolled in, we will have hit the £200,000 target.

"I want to thank everyone who has helped the campaign so far."

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Once Isabelle has completed her treatment here in the UK there is still a 60 per cent chance she could relapse, hence the treatment which is only being carried out at the MSKCC facility in New York.

The treatment involves injections of bivalent vaccine, which helps the immune system fight lethal antigens.

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