TWO local firms are teaming up in aid of a worthy cause.

Staff from distribution company Bookers and food company Pataks - both based at Haydock - have organised a sponsored soccer match to raise money for two-year-old Megan Calveley and Manchester Childrens Hospital.

Megan's mum Catherine works in the canteen at Bookers, while dad Mike is a production operator at Pataks. Four months ago the family discovered that Megan had leukaemia. Since then the brave tot has already undergone one course of chemotherapy and she faces two further courses in September and at the end of the year.

Half of the money raised by the match - which kicks off at Mornington High School, Hindley, at 3pm, this Sunday, August 30 - will go towards the Borchardt cancer ward at the childrens hospital in Pendlebury, while the other half will help send Megan and her parents on holiday to Disney World, Florida.

Mike (28) told the Star: "Our workmates have been brilliant over the last few months and we appreciate everything they have done. Megan was diagnosed in May after falling and hurting her leg. It didn't seem to be improving after several trips to hospital and finally they decided to do a blood test which revealed the leukaemia. She has been through a lot over the last four months, but she has adjusted very well and she doesn't complain."

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