A 10-year-old cancer survivor from south Bucks and her family, are calling for people to buy strawberries and help beat cancer as part of a new campaign by a cancer charity.

Daisy Wingrove, from Flackwell Heath, was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a type of bone cancer, when she was eight-years-old, and was supported by CLIC Sargent, a cancer charity for children, young people and their families.

Supermarket giant Morrisons has now chosen CLIC Sargent as its new charity partner, and is aiming to raise £8 million over the next three years.

To kick start the campaign, the supermarket is now donating 20p from the sale of each pack of their strawberries to the cause.

Daisy and mum Jane are encouraging people to buy the strawberries, which will be rolled out across all stores by mid-April, after they found the financial implications of Daisy’s treatment difficult to deal with and were helped by CLIC Sargent support worker Rebekah with financial grants.

Jane said: “Having your child in hospital with a cancer diagnosis is incredibly stressful, and the extra costs that mount up during treatment, like travel expenses and hospital parking charges, became a huge worry for us.

“Another huge expense is food. Most people just don’t realise that chemotherapy can make certain foods taste disgusting, like metal.

“I remember that sometimes Daisy would eat nothing but packs of Parma ham or nothing but smoked salmon, then only melons and strawberries.”

Daisy faced intensive chemotherapy and operations to remove the cancerous bone, then went through further operations to rebuild her legs, before learning how to walk again.

She is now back at school and “doing well”.

Jane added: “I think it’s fantastic that just by popping into Morrisons and buying some strawberries that people can help families like ours through the hard times.”

Emma Spencer, strawberry buyer at Morrisons, said: “These strawberries are our first British fruit crop of the new season, which is something we look forward to every year.

“We’re delighted to be celebrating this year by raising tens of thousands of pounds for this great cause.”