THE owner of Accrington Stanley has joined the fight to send a toddler battling cancer to the United States for life-saving treatment.

Charlie Procter, three, suffers from a rare form of liver cancer and his family are looking to raise more than £315,000 to send him to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for specialist care.

On Monday Charlie, from Church, got the chance to lead the club's first team out and was the guest of honour in their 1-0 win over Crawley Town at the Wham Stadium.

Owner Andy Holt has taken to social media with the aim of raising £25,000 for the cause.

He said: "He needs a miracle. Hopefully enough of a push from everyone will give him a chance of one.

"I’ve offered to donate 50p for every retweet received on my tweet raising awareness of this case, up to £25,000. So get retweeting.”

Charlie was able to take pictures with the players and hand out the man of the match award to defender Matty Pearson.

The youngster was also was the first person to have his name and picture on the new big screen at the ground which was used for the first game after being funded by the club's '#UpInLights' campaign.

Manager John Coleman said: “It’s wonderful he had the chance to lead the team out.

"It’s just a shame it has to be under such tragic circumstances.

"We thought it was important to do our bit to raise the awareness of Charlie’s condition.

"He’s local lad and we like to help out in our own community as much as we can and it looks like he was our lucky charm."

The toddler has undergone 22 rounds of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with Hepatoblastoma in February 2016 and his family now want to send him for America for treatment not available in the UK.

Charlie’s parents, Amber Schofield, 23, and Ben Procter, 27, have been campaigning to raise the money and have already collected £99,000.

Miss Schofield said: "Everything we can do to bring attention to Charlie’s illness helps and I would like to think that a few generous people may be inspired to donate to his cause after this.

"We are a way away from our target but it is true every little does help.”

To contribute to Charlie’s treatment visit Andy Holt’s twitter page at @AndyhHolt and retweet the top pinned tweet.