Mum and daughter in pact to raise money

The six-year-old cancer survivor was star guest at a charity fun day organised by her mother Melanie Green to raise funds for the group that helped them through their two-year ordeal.

Melanie, aged 37, set up the event in Busk Meadows Park near the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield to raise funds for the organisation PACT - Parents of Children with Tumors.

She wanted to say thank you for the help it has given her family - husband Neil, aged 42, and son Elliott, nine - throughout Ellis’s treatment for kidney cancer.

Ellis was diagnosed with the illness in December 2005 but is now in remission - and took full advantage of the activities on offer including face-painting and a bouncy castle.

Melanie, of Eckington, said: “PACT have been brilliant to us throughout Ellis’s treatment and we wanted to give something back.

“They sent us on a trip to Filey where they’ve got a caravan and we all had a wonderful time.

“Everything was paid for by them and we just didn’t want to come home!

“They’re also sending us to Berwick-upon-Tweed this summer which we’re all really looking forward to. We just wanted to do something to say thank you for it all.”

She said Ellis, a pupil at Birk Hill Infants School in Eckington, had a “really great” day.

“She is well on the way to recovery now and getting stuck into everything. She is looking forward to going back to school full time again in September.”

Melanie is already looking ahead to holding another similar event to raise cash at Christmas.

“We want to keep it going, and keep raising money for them,” she said.