The race is on to get to a £20,000 target of ticket sales this weekend for a raffle to win a magnificent Pendle home owned by a well known beauty therapist, who is living with a brain tumour.

The raffle went live two weeks ago to raise cash to pay for cutting edge treatment on an operable brain tumour Claire Nutter was diagnosed with in 2023.

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Tickets to win the Grade II listed £800,000 home in Roughlee, owned by Claire and her partner Gary Dunn, are £5. The raffle is being run on worldwide platform Raffall and a minimum of 250,000 tickets need to be sold for the main prize to be given. If less than 250,000 tickets are sold, the winner will receive a cash payment amounting to 50% of the total ticket revenue generated for this competition.

The xxterior of the house in Pendle which is being raffled off to raise money for Claire Nutter's brain tumour treatment. Photo: Kelvin Lister-Stuttard

It was Gary who came up with the idea for the raffle in a bid to raise the £350,000 needed towards specialist surgery and therapy in Germany, the only treatment now available to mum of two Claire (48).

Since her diagnosis, Claire, whose salon was based at Business First in Burnley, has undergone three life-saving operations, but only half of the tumour could be removed. She has endured chemotherapy, which unfortunately proved ineffective. With radiotherapy ruled out due to the severe side effects, Claire’s NHS options came to an end, so the family began looking at alternative treatments. Family, friends and supporters have staged a series of fundraising events, including a red carpet ball and a 150 mile cycle ride, to raise the grand total of £44,000.

Builder Gary said: “We are so grateful for what people have done for us. But they can only do so much and we felt like we were asking the same people all the time. The NHS have been amazing but I knew that when her treatment ended we had to come up with something different to give Claire the best chance to recover.”

Claire, who is mum to Louie (21) and 17-year-old Ray, began her career as a teenager working at Clitheroe-based salon World of Nails. More recently, she had a salon based at Business First in Burnley. Popular and well known her courage and cheerfulness in the face of her devastating illness has touched the hearts of so many people who are determined to help her.

Claire Nutter and Gary Dunn with the keys to their house with they are raffling off to raise money for Claire's brain tumour treatment. Photo: Kelvin Lister-Stuttard

A GoFundMe page set up by Louie, has raised £24,000 and brave Claire has thanked her supporters and expressed her determination to beat her tumour, saying: “I feel really lucky to have had the treatments I’ve had, but I refuse to believe that there’s nothing out there for me and I’m not going down without a fight.

"I can’t express how grateful I am for everyone’s generosity and kindness. It means the world.

The raffle runs until Saturday, July 4th at noon and 5 per cent will be donated to the Be More Laura Foundation, set up by the family of Laura Nuttall, the courageous young Pendle woman, whose bravery and steely determination in the face of terminal cancer captured the hearts of the nation. Laura, who was just 23 when she died in 2023, was diagnosed with globlastoma multiforme - the most aggressive form of brain cancer - following a routine eye test.

To buy your ticket for the raffle go to https://raffall.com/409079/enter-raffle-to-win-an-800000-stunning-home-help-save-claires-life-hosted-by-benchmark