A MIDDLEWICH resident has helped push a huge charity project over the line, after completing a 100-mile charity cycle.

Adam Morgans, 28, raised more than £500 in a matter of days after cycling the 100-mile Liverpool-Chester-Liverpool race on July 2 with his best friend Jon.

The money has helped the #CharliesChance campaign reach its £140,000 target, which will enable 10-year-old Charlie Fearns, from Liverpool, to travel to America for life-saving cancer treatment.

Charlie, the young cousin of Adam’s wife Rachel, 27, was diagnosed with leukaemia and has suffered two relapses, most recently after a successful bone marrow transplant in 2013.

Adam said: “When it first started they sent out the pages and I was looking at it thinking ‘there’s no way they will raise that much’. I didn’t say anything to my wife, but in my head there was no way.

“After two days they had £40,000, then £70,000 and various celebrities helping out. Steven Gerrard, Ricky Hatton and Stephen Graham were sharing it – everyone we reached out to or asked gave us something or did something for us.

“Over the years John and I have done a few charity events across the North West. We had to do this for Charlie, for a cause close to our hearts.

Rachel added: “I was made up that Adam got involved, because he has done so much over the last few years. When this all happened I said to him: ‘what are you going to do?’ “I knew that he could raise money and that he was good at it so I thought it was the ideal opportunity to try our best. He did really, really well.

“It’s great news that we’ve reached the target, but we are sceptical. It’s hard, but we are so thankful that people have given this money.”

Charlie will leave for Seattle within the next few weeks to receive revolutionary CAR T-cell therapy, with his parents and siblings travelling with him.