A raffle, to win the luxury home of a beauty therapist who is battling brain cancer, has sold almost 10,000 tickets and raised just over £49,000.

But there is still a long way to go. Launched in January the deadline for the raffle, to win the Grade 11 listed £800,000 home in Roughlee, owned by Claire and her partner Gary Dunn, is July 4.

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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.

Louie Nutter (right) and his brother Ray with some of the specially commissioned beer mats being used to boost sales of a raffle to buy their family home and pay for lifesaving cancer treatment for their mum Claire

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.

Gary came up with the idea 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).

Claire’s sister Catherine Dowell said: “A lot of people have said they felt guilty buying a ticket as they don’t want to take Claire’s home from her.

“But the house will be sold anyway, so please continue to buy tickets in the raffle.”

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.

Family, friends, wellwishers and former clients of Claire have been fundraising for several months through a series of different events, including a red carpet ball and a sponsored bike ride. Recently, Whalley bar owner Erika Anderton came up with the inspired idea to advertise the raffle on beer mats.

Emblazoned with the slogan, ‘win a house, save a life’ the mats have been distributed to a variety of bars and pubs across Burnley, Pendle and the Ribble Valley. Drinkers can easily buy a ticket by scanning a QR code on the mat.

Erika, who is the co owner of Fifty9 King Street, said: “I read about Claire and wanted to do something to help.”

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 ended, so the family began looking at alternative treatments.

To buy a raffle ticket click HERE. Any bars who wish to stock the beer mats are asked to contact Claire on Facebook.