Santa's sleigh will be touring North Walsham this Christmas to try and raise �5,000 for local one-year-old Ryan Wright who is battling the rare cancer neuroblastoma.

North Walsham Round Table members are giving Father Christmas a hand with his deliveries after chairman Darren Barker paid Ryan's family a visit, at their home in Fairview Road.

Ryan is undergoing chemotherapy at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, following surgery to remove a tumour. But his family has been told that there is a strong likelihood the cancer will return when he is a little older and they believe, if that happens, his only hope would lie in treatment available in Germany which could begin at a cost of about �20,000.

'I was really moved by Ryan's story,' said Mr Barker. 'As a table we were keen to support in any way we could and so decided that we would focus our biggest fund-raising event of the year on supporting Ryan and his family.'

North Walsham Round Table usually raises about �2,500 annually for local causes with the sleigh. But members are hoping to double that amount in order to give Ryan's appeal a significant boost and they will also be collecting outside Sainsbury's and the new Waitrose, due to open at the end of the month.

? For �25 companies can have their logo displayed on the side of the sleigh. Email NWRT@inspired-change.co.uk or visit www.charitygiving.co.uk/NWRT

for more information, or to make donations.