The family of a cancer-stricken boy in need of life-saving treatment in America has raised the £300,000 needed for his trip in only four months.

Six-year-old Adam Bird, from Epsom, who suffers from stage 4 neuroblastoma, should be able to receive the immunisation treatment in December after Adam’s Appeal, launched by his family, raised all the money needed for it.

Adam’s father, Nick, said: “It’s pretty amazing really. It seems like a long time ago that we started it, but actually we only started it in the middle of March.”

He added: “I wasn’t surprised with the support from the community, with people wanting to help. But I was amazed at how inventive people have been and how they mobilised a lot of people to help.

“A lot of the schools - not just the ones our children have been to - have done fundraisers. Pretty much every school you can name have raised funds for the appeal.”

Mr Bird thanked Debbie Bruen, who managed the appeal’s website and co-ordinated it.

He said: “I'd like to say thank you to Debbie who has spent a huge amount of time running the appeal. Amanda, Sheena, the Epsom College Ball team for a fantastic evening, Roz and her choir; and everybody else who has donated, supported, run, walked and much much more besides. 'Thank you' is inadequate really, but I don't know what else to say.”

Last week, a charity ball with the presence of singer Ruth Lorenzo raised £25,000, helping Adam’s family reach their target.

For these last four months, children from Downsend School and Wallace Fields Infant School held several fundraising events and even donated their pocket money to help Adam.

Businesses and individuals in and around Epsom also did their bit, raising money for Adam’s Appeal, and football fans of Charlton Athletic and West Bromwich Albion also dug into their pockets for the cause.

Celebrities such as Kylie Minogue and David Walliams spread the message on twitter and donated signed items for auction.

Last week, employees of Sainsbury’s Kiln Lane alongside parents and children from Downsend and Wallace Fields Schools raised £1,900 in four hours of bag packing and on Sunday, a 60-strong choir sang at Bourne Hall for Adam’s cause too.

Adam will now undergo more chemotherapy, have a harvest surgery for stem cells at the start of August and aggressive radiotherapy followed by a bone marrow transplant made with his own stem cells. If he responds well to the series of treatments, he will be able to go to America to receive the life-saving immunotherapy treatment.