Switch insurance and firm will give £100 to life-saving fund for Lewis

A TEAM of financial advisers have pledged to donate £100 to a fund set up to send a four-year-old cancer sufferer to America, every time someone switches insurance cover.

Lewis Mighty has neuroblastoma, a rare form of childhood cancer, and has already undergone three months of chemotherapy and a seven-hour operation to remove a tumour wrapped around the blood supply to his kidney.

But doctors were only able to remove 20% of the cancer and the youngster has just a 10% to 20% chance of surviving two years.

His parents, Jaime and Perry, of Hounslow Road, Mackworth, are trying to raise £300,000 to send Lewis to New York for treatment which is not available in the UK.

Financial advisers from Derby-based firm Oodles are heading up the Lewis Mighty Fund. The team has now pledged to donate £100 to the fund every time someone switches existing life insurance to a cheaper insurance company through them.

Money will also be donated when people change critical illness cover, income protection policies and mortgage cover.

Call Oodles free on 0800 856 8484 and tell the advisers that you want a quote to help the Lewis Mighty Fund.

People wanting to make donations can do so at any branch of NatWest.

The account number is 25335901 and sort code is 60-12-01.

Donations can be also be sent to the Lewis Mighty Fund, c/o Oodles, 42 St Mary's Gate, Derby, DE1 3JZ.

If you are hosting a fund-raising event for the fund, call Catherine Oakes at the Derby Telegraph on 01332 291111, ext. 6501, or e-mail coakes@derbytelegraph.co.uk.