A PUSH to raise £10,000 to help a four-year-old boy with an incurable brain tumour enjoy his last months has been launched.

Atticus Feduchin-Pate was diagnosed on July 1 with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPG), a rare form of brain tumour, which only affects 20 to 30 children in the UK each year, none of whom so far have been saved from the disease.

The “polite and well spoken” youngster, who lives in Whitchurch, has just finished six weeks of radiotherapy to recover 80-90 per cent of his functions to allow him a period of normality before he will need to enter into palliative care.

Alex Kerslake, family friend of parents Blaize and Emily set up a Go Fund Me page hoping to raise cash to help Atticus, his parents and two-year-old sister Hemploe build memories together, and give back to the hospitals who supported them.

Half of the funds will also be donated to The Brain Tumour Charity to contribute to its work to finding a cure for the deadly illness.

Dad Blaize said: “I have been told that we were very lucky to catch it so fast.

“It’s terminal in this case no matter what, but as we noticed so early on, we are getting much better results with the radiotherapy and his ‘good time’ should be longer than average.

“He’s pretty much back to normal [since the radiotherapy], six weeks ago he was lying in bed, he couldn’t move half of his body.

“He’s been in a hotel bed all the time watching TV so he’s seen all the commercials, he’s going on about Pelican World, Legoland, Peppa Pig World all of which he’s desperate to go see now.”

The family also hope to make donations from the Go Fund Me to hospital play rooms and departments at Southampton hospital and University College London Hospital in London, where Atticus has been receiving radiotherapy.

The 42-year-old added: “He’s certainly a better boy than I deserve.

“Two weeks after the diagnosis I couldn’t talk about it without bursting into tears, nor could my wife.

“It’s such a vicious thing, you get diagnosed and there’s basically nothing you can do. Anything you can do to raise money for this kind of terrible cancer.”

To donate, go to: gofundme.com/atticus-dpig-amp-brain-tumor-charity.