A NETBALL tournament in honour of a late Bromsgrove woman is set to raise cash to help a young boy battling cancer.

Hotshots Hornet Netball Club, based in Redditch, will hold the fourth Amy Redhead Mixed Netball Tournament later this month.

Laura Adams founded the tournament in memory of school friend Amy Redhead, who passed away in 2018, aged only 28.

Amy, who was from Bromsgrove and attended Waseley Hills High School with Laura, was passionate about raising awareness of cancer. She was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel/liver cancer after living with Ulcerative Colitis.

She was given just months to live and spent her final months documenting her experience on social media to help raise awareness of her condition to try and help others.

Laura, a school friend of Amy, set up the tournament originally to raise money for Amy’s treatment. After a break last year, the tournament this month aims to keep Amy’s memory alive by raising funds for 12-year-old Kaiden from Coventry who is facing cancer after being in remission for seven years.

His family are raising money for Kaiden to receive potentially life-saving treatment, after it was discovered that the cancer had spread to his spine.

Hearing his story, Laura knew she had to help in memory of Amy.

Laura said: “This is the fourth year of doing the tournament, this year we are raising money for Kaiden. He had cancer when he was younger. It has come back so we are trying to raise money for him to be able to go to America for treatment.

"When I heard the story I thought it was a good cause to raise money for. We raised £1,500 in previous tournaments so hopefully we can raise a similar amount again."

The tournament takes place at Tudor Grange Academy in Redditch on Saturday August 28, 10am to 3pm.

Mixed teams can apply to take part for £45 and there will be a host of activities and competitions taking place throughout the day.