Dubbed a “miracle baby” when she was born, Elly from Pembrokeshire has been praised in the past by the Dalai Lama and former prime minister Theresa May for her fundraising for cancer patients and cancer services.
Now she has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) for helping raise more than £200,000 for Withybush Hospital, which helped her dad Lyn survive a rare blood cancer.
She is now the face for his charities fundraising appeal and also helps collect for Hywel Dda Health Charities, the official charity of Hywel Dda University Health Board. Something the youngster has done since the age of five when her father first got taken ill.
“We’re so proud of her,” said her 61-year-old father Lyn, who was told five years before Elly was born that his condition meant he could not have more children.
“She’s our miracle baby, we were super surprised and delighted when we found out.”
[Lead image: Richard Williams]
