A raffle, to buy the home of a Burnley beauty therapist so she can pay for treatment for an inoperable brain tumour, is now live.

Tickets to win the Grade II listed £800,000 home in Roughlee, owned by Claire Nutter and her partner Gary Dunne, 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.

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If less than 250,000 tickets are sold, the winner will receive a cash payment amounting to 50% of the total ticket revenue generated.

Burnley beauty therapost Claire Nutter is raffling her home in Pendle to raise funds for vital treatment for a brain tumour she was diagnosed with in 2023

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 has been amazing but I knew that when Claire’s treatment ended we had to come up with something different to give her the best chance to recover. We will keep fighting on.”

Claire, who is mum to Louie (21) and 16-year-old Ray, began her career as a teenager working at Clitheroe-based salon World of Nails.

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. She writes: “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!

Tickets have now gone on sale in a raffle to win the Pendle home of Claire Nutter to raise funds towards treatment for the mum of two who is a battling a brain tumour.

"I can’t express how grateful I am for everyone’s generosity and my heart bursts with love for each and every one of you.”

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 captured the hearts of the nation. Laura, who died in 2023, was diagnosed with globlastoma multiforme - the most aggressive form of brain cancer - following a routine eye test. Laura defied the odds and became well known and popular for her positive attitude as she made the most of life, pursuing her goals and dreams, including completing the Great North Run and hosting a BBC weather forecast as part of a ‘bucket list’ of things she wanted to do. Laura also piloted HMS Charger, drove a supercar around Silverstone and visited Churchill’s War Room.