Milton Keynes shopping centre raises staggering £10k for children's cancer

Centre:mk chose Supershoes as it's charity of the year and highlighted its work with bake sales, Santa's grotto and various fundraising events.

The charity aims to empower children and young people fighting cancer. It designs and paints shoes unique to any child diagnosed with cancer.

A 'super artist' captures all the child's favourite things - whether they be games, sports, music or animals - and they are presented with a pair of shoes as unique as them.

A spokesman for Supershoes said: "Throughout the year, the staff have helped us to raise awareness of childhood cancer, and all their efforts have helped us add a fabulous £10,873.50 to our funds. We were absolutely thrilled to receive this sum."

A spokesman for centre:mk said: "Every year centre:mk works with one charity as Charity of the Year. Out of all the applications received to be our charity partner, Supershoes really stood out as being the perfect fit.

"A charity that was inspiring, unique, celebrating art as a form of therapy and although national, based in Milton Keynes. The team at centre:mk really wanted to make a difference to helping Supershoes reach more children and give the team there a platform to tell everyone about the fabulous work that the Supershoes team do."

Head of Marketing Kim Priest said “We are delighted to have helped raise over £10,000 for Supershoes. This charity is truly special and has captured the hearts and minds of our whole team and raised the awareness of the fantastic work the charity does to empower children and young people fighting cancer. A truly inspiring charity with a fantastic philosophy that we all really believe in.”