MONEY has been pouring into a fundraising campaign launched to help a mother with cancer spend precious time with her daughter.

More than £40,000 has been raised in just a few weeks to help Charley Ashton from Hove get the urgent treatment she needs.

Charley has an aggressive form of cancer which is so rare, doctors cannot identify exactly what it is.

Doctors gave her just weeks to live at the start of the year but she is determined to be around for as long as possible for her daughter Aurelia, 18 months.

Family and friends have set up a £100,000 drive to raise the money needed for further treatment that could prolong her life.

Charley, 34, wants to try groundbreaking immunotherapy treatment, which harnesses the body's own immune system to hunt out and attack cancer cells.

However because it is still in the trial stages, the treatment is only available on the NHS for skin cancer patients at the moment.

Charley will have to pay £100,000 to have the treatment carried out at Royal Marsden Hospital in London.

Supporters are now keeping up the fundraising momentum by stepping up awareness and arranging fundraisers and challenges over the coming months.

The aim is to get Charley started on treatment as quickly as she can because her chemotherapy is ending.

Charley, who is married to Jess, 35, told The Argus: “Aurelia is changing and developing every day and starting to say words. She is calling me mama and it is wonderful.

“Some people say she won’t be old enough to remember me, so the longer I can be here the more memories she can build.

“I am making preparations so she can have messages from me at important times in her life- when she passes her driving test, when she turns 16, her first boyfriend or girlfriend.

“The more I can tell about our lives and our experiences together the better it will be.”

To find out more about Charley and the fundraising campaign, visit cure4charley.com .

To make a donation visit gofundme.com/2csb3vg.

A sponsored London to Brighton bike ride has also been arranged for September 25.

To sign up, visit eventbrite.co.uk/e/cycle-for-charley-c4c-tickets-26550717912?ref=estw.

Any money raised that Charley may not need will be donated to the Rarer Cancers Foundation.