Rugby-mad Daniel Wilson’s bedroom is full of trophies and medals but now he’s playing the match of his life.

The 13-year-old from Bournemouth has a life-threatening bone disease and his sport is on hold while he is in a wheelchair.

Daniel is a flanker for Bournemouth Lions Rugby Club, and staff have made him a member of the coaching staff while he is too ill to play.

But he found his last visit in a wheelchair very painful.

Mum Sandra Bell, 42, said: “Tears were coming down his face. He wanted to be out there.”

Family and friends have taken up the baton with numerous fundraising events for the children’s charity that has provided invaluable support, Clic Sargent.

Mick Mullins, 57, a graphic designer from Westbourne, will be running 5km Castlepoint run tomorrow guiding blind friend Daren Morris, 41, from Parkstone.

The pair, who know Daniel’s granddad Roy Carney, 74, through Westbourne Conservative Club, have done numerous charity events together and Mick will also do the London Marathon.

Daniel has been diagnosed with Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis.

“There are only 20-30 people in the country with it,” said mum Sandra, a counsellor from Winton.

The disease has similarities to Leukaemia but is not actually a form of cancer.

However the treatment is very similar, and Daniel is undergoing chemotherapy at Southampton Hospital.

Daniel, a pupil at Ballard School in New Milton, has a serious form of the disease.

His sporting successes include national trials for shot putt throwing, and he is a member of Christchurch Rowing Club and Bournemouth Athletics Club.

A rugby friend managed to get him a signed Leicester Tigers shirt from England flanker Lewis Moody, complete with a rip from the game it was worn in.

To help or to donate money for Mick and Daren’s Castlepoint run email dazthehammer@sky.com or email terhughes27@ntlworld.com.

There is also a charity quiz night on Friday, January 22, at the Darby’s Corner Inn, Waterloo Road, Broadstone in Poole, starting at 8.30pm.