A GoFundMe marketing campaign has been launched by the chums of a terminally ill man to assist send him to this 12 months’s Glastonbury festival.
Nigel Stonehouse, 58, was identified with kidney and lung most cancers in Could. He has been attending Glastonbury for the final 30 years, and was referred to by his buddies as a “festival veteran”. He was set to attend this 12 months’s version of Glastonbury this week, however has turn out to be unable to journey with out medical help.
Associates of Stonehouse – a former bricklayer from Hartlepool – launched a GoFundMe marketing campaign over the weekend, wanting to increase funds to transport him by helicopter from North Tees hospital to the festival grounds at Pilton, Somerset. “Within the final week, Nige has taken a sudden flip and has been informed that not solely is his most cancers incurable, however it’s progressing quick and is aggressive,” the marketing campaign description reads. “Nige was planning to be with us all at Glastonbury subsequent week, and he has made it his dying want to make it there, even when just for a number of hours for one final time.
“The palliative care staff instructed commissioning a helicopter to get him there and again… We’re asking that anybody who is in a position, makes a donation regardless of how small to attempt to assist us make this occur… we would like to transfer heaven and earth to get him there. It could imply the world to Nige and to all who love him.”
Organisers completed their name for help by stipulating that ought to Stonehouse in the end be too unwell to journey, funds might be donated to charities related to Glastonbury.
The trouble has garnered the eye of some outstanding names in music. Fatboy Slim (aka Norman Cook dinner), who will carry out at this 12 months’s festival, wrote on Twitter: “[Stonehouse is] so poorly with most cancers they’re going to have to fly him in by air ambulance. In case you’d be a part of me in serving to Nige’s dying want then pls donate right here.”
Of us. I’ve been contacted by the pal of a terminally ill man who needs to go to Glasto 1 final time. He’s so poorly with most cancers they’re going to have to fly him in by air ambulance. In case you’d be a part of me in serving to Nige’s dying want then pls donate right here. https://t.co/Nc9ljPm0jg
— Fatboy Slim (@FatboySlim) June 19, 2022
On the time of writing, the “Get Nige to Glasto” fundraiser had exceeded it’s £12,000 objective, nonetheless you may nonetheless donate right here. NME has reached out to the fundraiser’s organisers for remark.
Glastonbury 2022 returns between between June 22 and 26 after a two-year coronavirus delay. Tickets for the occasion – which options headliners Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar – bought out in simply 20 minutes.
Earlier this month, attendees have been alerted to a nationwide practice strike that might have an effect on journey to the venue. Earmarked as the most important rail strike to face the nation in 30 years, the strike begins tomorrow (June 21) and likewise takes place on June 23 and 25. Disruption to journey is anticipated to have an effect on travellers to and from the Pilton grounds up till Monday June 27.