A charity fundraising for a £900,000 clinical trial to help children with brain tumours has received a massive anonymous donation

It aims to raise £900,000 for a groundbreaking clinical trial to help children with agressive brain tumours, so Funding Neuro was delighted when a mysterious benefactor donated a third of the total in one go.

The £300,000 donation was made through the Glasgow charity's crowdfunding page, doubling the amount it had raised in an instant.

The myserious donor, who has remained anonymous, was moved to help children with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) brain tumours, a terminal brain cancer which devastates young lives.

The charity is fundraising to support the ground-breaking work of Bristol neuro-surgeon Professor Stephen Gill, whose treatment has already extended the lives of some children.

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Funding Neuro chief executive Sharon Kane said: "We were absolutely blown away when we received thedonation. It's very unusual for anyone to make such a substantial one-off contribution.

"It's certainly by far the biggest single amount Funding Nuro has ever received. There was only one cavat to the donation, that it remains anonymous."

No children with DIPG have ever survived the condition. It is highly resistant to chemotherapy treatement and children experience double vision, problems chewing and swallowing and the dropping of one side of the face.

Professor Gill has created Convection Enhanced Delivery system technology to infuse drugs directly into the brain.

The technique means that children will not have to experience the side effects of chemotherapy and ultimately professor Gill believes it will save lives.