THE heartbroken family of Charlie Procter have announced fundraising to get him to the United States for live-saving treatment is to end.

Almost £360,000 has been pledged to help Charlie, who is suffering from hepatoblastoma, after doctors in the UK told him he had only weeks to live.

But his family weren’t ready to give up on the little boy from Church, instead launching all of their efforts into raising enough money to get him to Cincinnati in the US for cancer treatment not available in the UK.

But their world came crashing down on Wednesday when Dr Geller, the US-based specialist willing to treat Charlie, told them their little boy had become too unwell to receive treatment.

In a letter shared by mum Amber Schofield, Dr Geller said: “We have discussed Charlie’s case this morning and given his current liver and kidney function, which is not reversible with any sort of interventional approaches, we have nothing to offer Charlie here in Cincinnati, and thus we discourage travel.

“I’m terribly sorry that Charlie’s hepatoblastoma is not curable, and hope you can enjoy the time you have with him making memories, and know that you have done and continue to do everything you can to try to help your son.”

Up until now Charlie’s family were preparing themselves to travel to the US as soon as they had raised enough of the £850,000 needed to pay for his treatment.

But despite the fact family have stopped his fundraising, which has gathered support from global superstar Pink, Ms Schofield said they would never give up trying to save five-year-old Charlie.

She said: “We are still going to try and help him, we don’t want to give up now. You may all know we’ve done everything to try and help him, from over 40 natural organic treatments, supplements, juicing, telepathic healing and more.

"We will carry this on and even more in hope we can fix his liver ourselves and fly him out. We won’t give up Charlie”

In the meantime the family are going to celebrate Charlie’s sixth birthday party at the Brooks Club in Accrington.

Ms Schofield said: “He isn’t six until April but he’s so longed to be six that we have to give him that.

“This is really for everyone to come and see him and have their time with him. We will inform everyone of the date when we know.

"We will be wanting time alone with Charlie and restricting family visits so I feel this is the best way for everyone to have a final visit.”