SPENCER Cherry made one of the offers of the year when he found out his sister had leukaemia.
Spencer, 12, volunteered to donate bone marrow to his sister Maria, 13, to save her waiting months before she could have a transplant.
The operation, which is like a blood transfusion, was done at Sheffield Children's Hospital and Maria has since resumed her studies at Kingstone School.
Maria's father Chris, 42, who runs a cleaning business, and Jill Brookes, who runs a dancing school, decided to organise a fund-raising concert at Penistone Paramount.
The concert was performed on three nights and raised more than £1,000 for the children's cancer charity PACT. The money was handed over at the Trades and Labour Club, Racecommon Road, Barnsley last Thursday.
Maria, of Cockerham Avenue, Barnsley said: "I was happy when Spencer volunteered to donate his bone marrow because I would have waited months for a donor. I am fine now."
Chris said a second concert was being planned for June. He paid special tribute to Maria's mum Patricia Dearnley, 43, whom he said had been a 'rock for us all'.
Photo - PACT representative Beryl Wellburn, Spencer, Maria and Jill Brookes.
