CANCER campaigner Dame Deborah James has revealed she would love her BowelBabe fund to hit £7million.
The 40-year-old launched the fund on May 9 after she revealed she had moved to hospice at home care.
Since then it’s gone from strength to strength and in less than a week the fund hit £5million.
Now just over two weeks after the Sun writer revealed the fundraiser, which will see money go to Cancer Research UK, the Royal Marsden and Bowel Cancer UK, the total sits at over £6.5million.
More money is being donated everyday and the mum-of-two hopes she will see it stretch even further.
She told Trending In The News: “It’s mad, completely crazy. I can’t quite believe it.
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“It’s all a great distraction and it’s keeping my mind off dying.
“I’d love to see the Fund hit £7million.”
In order to raise even more money for the charities, the podcaster has also launched a t-shirt, emblazoned with her beloved motto ‘rebellious hope’.
The tops costs £15 from In The Style and have already raised over £400,000.
Within hours two batches of 10,000 T-shirts had sold out – raising £140,000.
The podcaster who modelled it with her daughter Eloise, 12, said 100 per cent of the profits will go to her fund.
Deborah has also had a rose named after her, which has now wracked up over £22,000 for the fund.
Dame Debs was presented with a stunning bouquet of her new rose by the team at The Harkness Rose Company.
For every rose sold, £2.50 will be donated to the fund.
Debs added: “I’ve been overwhelmed by everyone’s generosity, with donations, pre-ordering my book, buying the T-shirt and my rose – it’s all raising money for the Fund.”
- To pre-order Deborah’s book visit Amazon
- Her t-shirt is available through In the Style in sizes 6-28
- The Dame Deborah James rose, Bare Root, is available at World of Roses
