A DEDICATED family and friends are hoping to complete their fund-raising in memory of a 20-month-old baby.

In 2017, a group ran the Great Manchester Run and raised approximately £14,000 to fund families who want to stay local to their sick children.

The money was raised for Bleddyn and Bethan Evans, from Nefyn, to help responsor the room they stayed in at Ronald McDonald House Manchester when Efan, their son, was very poorly there.

The endeavours have raised a five-figure sum in memory of Efan who passed away in 2012 after he was born with a rare lung disease called Surfactant deficiency protein-C.

During his treatment, Bethan recalls that the state-of-the-art facilities provided by Ronald McDonald House at Manchester Hospital made a very distressing period slightly more bearable and hopes to provide similar accommodation for families suffering similar woes.

Now Bethan, who will be joined by her children, will be taking on this year’s Great Manchester Run in a bid to top up the balance to £15,000.

Bethan said: “The £15,000 will sponsor Efan’s room – the room where we stayed whilst Efan was getting treatment – at Ronald McDonald House Manchester for nine years. More importantly however, it will pay for 600 nights’ stay for a family or families at the house in their time of need.”