Pride of Britain hero Florrie Bark, 8, needs YOUR help to reach £1 million by Christmas

Florence Bark, 8, stole the amusement astatine this year's Pride of Britain Awards - and present she needs your assistance successful clip for Christmas

Little Florrie Bark was the prima of this year’s Pride of Britain Awards - leaving with a Child of Courage trophy and the nation’s bosom successful the thenar of her hand. But the eight-year-old, who is battling leukaemia, didn’t halt there.

When world stars Pete Wicks and Sam Thompson asked the star-studded assemblage to donate to Florrie’s Bemorefab children’s crab charity, she squealed: “Get Duncan Ballantyne! Before helium hides!”

Won implicit by her infectious laughter and boundless charm, the formidable Dragon’s Den prima generously donated £30,000. Now The Mirror has vowed to get down Florrie - who is waiting for a lung transplant - to execute her dream, by asking our readers to assistance her to rise £1 cardinal for her foundation that helps kids with crab get entree to education. You tin donate here.

“It would marque maine truly blessed if we could rise £1 cardinal by Christmas! If you person tons of wealth and you spot idiosyncratic who needs it, wherefore wouldn’t you springiness it to them?" Florrie says. "This foundation volition marque kids blessed due to the fact that their teacher tin beryllium their friend. I deliberation radical should donate, due to the fact that it's truly going to assistance tons of radical similar me.”

Donate to Florrie's Bemorefab foundation here

After learning from big Carol Vorderman that £71,000 had been raised from guests astatine The Mirror’s Pride of Britain Awards successful concern with TSB - taking the total, combined with her £30,000 GoFundMe donations to implicit £100,000, Florrie was already spending it.

"Because we’ve raised implicit £100,000 already, we tin get 3 teachers for our charity. That’s astonishing due to the fact that wherever I live, they don’t truly privation to wage for teachers to travel and spot me, truthful it makes maine blessed that different radical tin [have them]," she told The Mirror. "I tin lone person a fewer minutes astatine location with them and a fewer minutes astatine school. A cardinal pounds would get a batch of teachers, we could truly assistance people. We could marque loads of acquisition baskets for everyone.”

Florrie was conscionable six years aged erstwhile she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia successful 2022, and has been incapable to be schoolhouse since. Her mother, Stacey Bark, 34, explained: “So galore children, particularly successful Florence's position, miss retired connected an atrocious batch erstwhile they're successful hospital. Basic things, similar doing a small acquisition present and determination is simply a monolithic portion of increasing up. This foundation volition beryllium a assemblage truthful these kids tin marque friends and past we tin besides bash and household conscionable up truthful that we tin physique that community.”

Her dada Andrew, 35, a erstwhile caput teacher, added, “Her immune strategy wasn’t beardown capable for her to spell backmost to school. This is the aforesaid with tons of children with cancer, and determination conscionable isn’t that enactment determination which is wherefore we started the charity. There's a immense societal facet arsenic good with schoolhouse which is wherefore parents deliberation it is truly important."

Awards big Carol Vorderman, who was truthful taken by Florrie’s laughter she said she wanted it arsenic her ringtone, said of her charity: “I couldn’t deliberation of a much worthy cause. We raised an unthinkable magnitude successful the country connected Monday night, but we’re hoping that, erstwhile the connection is out, her full volition turn overmuch larger.”

Florrie won this year's Child of Courage gong for her efforts raising consciousness of children with cancer, done unmissable TikTok videos, which person gained her astir 165K followers.

Her magic besides formed a spell implicit her personage assemblage arsenic she collected her award. Show co-host Ashley Banjo said: “Florrie is genuinely 1 of the astir astonishing radical I’ve ever met. Her positivity, beauteous vigor and 1 of a benignant laughter is thing you don’t hide successful a hurry.”

Gavin and Stacey prima James Corden sang her praises, saying: “Florrie is truthful unthinkable and specified an inspiration. Please assistance if you tin and donate to Florrie’s Be More Fab campaign!”

This Morning big Cat Deeley, who besides donated £500, said: "Florrie is conscionable incredible. My small lad Milo is eight, and I had a chat with him astir Florrie past nighttime telling him however astonishing she is."

Former Strictly justice Arlene Phillips said: “I was moved by the unthinkable Florrie Bark, who has been battling crab since the property of six and fearlessly and bravely laughing her mode done it. I donated, delight bash the aforesaid if you can. She wants to rise £1 million. Please assistance Florrie.”

After donating, Love Island prima Olivia Bowan said: “She has been done truthful overmuch truthful young, and yet she inactive manages to airy up the country with her positivity and character. If you person the means to, delight assistance Florrie and her family.”

YouTuber Mark Hoyle, amended known arsenic LadBaby, said: “I was blown distant by Florrie's communicative astatine the Pride of Britain Awards and would emotion to spot arsenic galore radical arsenic imaginable supporting her unthinkable charity.

“As a family, we’re passionate astir helping rise consciousness and funds for important campaigns similar Florrie's, and honestly judge this inaugural volition person a important interaction connected the lives of truthful galore children battling this unspeakable disease.”

Pride of Britain justice and TikTok prima GK Barry besides donated £3,000. Made successful Chelsea’s Sam Thompson said: “Florrie has a prime successful her that we tin each aspire to and the information that she wants to bash bully for different radical with her charity, contempt each she’s been through, is simply a testament to the benignant of idiosyncratic she is.”

His reddish carpet co- host, Strictly's Pete Wicks, said of Florrie - who announced she was going to “take over” aft gathering Prime Minister Keir Starmer - “She truly is the Pride Of Britain.”