Where Your Money Has Gone

The Lily Foundation is proud to announce that it has now raised £100,000 for Guy's and St Thomas' hospital to help the battle against Mitochondrial Disease. Lily's mum and dad Liz and Dave handed over a cheque for £43,000 to Dr Mike Champion, Consultant in Pediatric Metabolic Medicine at the Evelina Children's Hospital, Guys and St Thomas' Hospital at the 2nd Annual Lily Foundation Ball  on March 7th at the Riverbank Park Plaza just a few hundred yards from where Lily received such kind care at the Evelina Unit.

This is in addition to the £57,000 handed over in November 2008. Lily's parents Liz and Dave and Lily's uncle Jonathan Pearce presented Dr Mike Champion a cheque at the Evelina Childrens' Hospital.

Alongside this a cheque for £3000 was presented to Sue Bennett from The Ronald MacDonald Trust, which will sponsor a family room for a year, paying for the costs of the up keep.

We could not have managed this without your help. The money raised has already resulted in the creation of the first hi-tech microchip to be used in a new gene testing unit at Guys and St Thomas'. This will speed up the detection of the defective mitochondrial gene and hopefully, one day, lead to the cure of the Disease

Once again, thanks so much for your help