Man City star's girlfriend donates £20k in bid to raise £1million for 'amazing little boy" battling leukaemia

The girlfriend of a Manchester City star has donated £20,000 towards a £1million fundraising bid to get a little boy a treatment trial for leukaemia.

Amy Ramsey, from Manchester, has set up a GoFundMe page to try and get the money needed to send her son Dillan to Washington, in the United States of America, this October.  The four-year-old was first diagnosed with leukaemia aged just one and has been continuing to battle the cancer ever since - with the family now running out of treatment options. 

The fundraiser has reached more than £286,000 in just a few days, including £20,000 attributed to Olivia Naylor, the girlfriend of City defender John Stones. The England international backed a testing event at the Etihad Stadium set up to try and find a bone marrow match for young Dillan - who underwent the transplant in Christmas last year. He however relapsed again and has exhausted all treatment options in this country. 

Posting on the GoFundMe page, Amy said: “Dillan was diagnosed with leukaemia at aged one and was given a 93% cure rate. After two years of gruelling chemotherapy and suffering, Dillan relapsed Aug 2022. He had a bone marrow transplant at Christmas last year and relapsed again in March this year. He had Car T cell therapy in May this year.

“Four days ago we were told he has relapsed again in his bone marrow, and that there are no more treatment options in the UK, and that his chance at cure is now very small. Anything going forward would be an experimental trial. There is a trial open in Washington that starts in October which has to be self-funded so we don’t have long to raise the money!

“Dillan should not have to go through this, he is the most precious, kind, amazing little boy with the funniest character. I can’t bear the thought of losing him, we need as much help financially as we can get. PLEASE HELP SAVE HIM, together as a community we found him a match last year, now we need your help to find him a cure!”