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NEW LINCOLN WASTE MANAGEMENT<br />
SITE TO RAISE VITAL FUNDS FOR<br />
GIRL’S LIFE SAVING TREATMENT...<br />
Boundary Lane, South Hykeham in Lincoln has<br />
welcomed a brand new waste management site<br />
which will donate £5 from each of its skips hired to<br />
Demi Knight, a local girl from Louth who needs to<br />
raise thousands of pounds for life saving treatment.<br />
The Pink Skip Co - a local skip hire company formed<br />
in Louth for women by women - opened its doors in<br />
October to a new waste management site for residential<br />
and commercial skips/waste management. Since 2007<br />
they have helped raise well over £30,000 for local<br />
breast cancer charity ’The Pink Rose Fund’.<br />
The next mission from their new Lincoln based branch<br />
is to help make a difference to Demi (11) who has been<br />
battling a tumour in her spine and head since March<br />
this year, having previously beaten the disease back<br />
in February 2017. Unfortunately, as standard NHS<br />
treatment has failed, Demi’s family were forced to look<br />
elsewhere for treatment - but it has come at a price.<br />
Demi currently receives experimental ‘Antineoplaston<br />
Therapy’ from the Burzynski Clinic in Texas, in addition<br />
to fortnightly trips to Poland to receive ‘Avastin’<br />
medication. Additional medicine has to be ordered from<br />
India. Remarkably, Demi’s family self-fund all of the<br />
flights and accommodation required, with every penny<br />
raised going towards the treatment itself.<br />
Thousands of pounds have already been raised, but<br />
these costs continue to grow as Demi continues her<br />
treatment- therefore it is vital fundraising continues and<br />
the ‘Pink Skip Co’ will continue to support Demi through<br />
the sales of their skips after already donating £2,200<br />
earlier this year from their Louth waste management<br />
sites - Pink Skip Co and GBM Waste Management.<br />
The campaign which is headed up by GBM and Pink<br />
Skip Co Director Simon Grantham hopes to help make<br />
a big difference to Demi and her family and hopes the<br />
whole community get’s behind it by THINKING PINK<br />
the next time they need a skip.<br />
Demi’s mum, Mel, stated: “This money will definitely<br />
make a big difference. “Even if people donate a fiver or a<br />
pound, it all adds up. “We want to say a massive thank<br />
you to Simon and the Pink Skip Co for their continued<br />
support because they don’t have to do this and it means<br />
so much. I don’t even know how I’ll ever begin to thank<br />
people for what they have done with fundraising.<br />
Demi will undergo her next MRI scan this November,<br />
and a PET scan in due course.<br />
HEALTH & SPORT<br />
Pink Skip Co<br />
PHOTO: Demi with GBM and Pink Skip Co<br />
Director Simon Grantham<br />
BELOW: Demo undergoing some of her treatment<br />
“It means<br />
everything.<br />
We wouldn’t<br />
be anywhere<br />
without the<br />
help from<br />
the public.”<br />
GBM and Pink Skip Co’s<br />
new Lincoln site<br />
To donate, visit www.gofundme.com/<br />
Demi-knight-cancer-treatment-fund<br />
To order a skip or for all your waste management requirements T: 01522 528841 www.pinkskipco.co.uk<br />
www.<strong>molly</strong>sguide.co.uk<br />
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