SCRUM caps at the ready – a rugby machine is going to be pushed through the streets of Wimborne to celebrate a brave little girl’s fight against leukaemia and to help other childhood cancer sufferers.

A fortnight short of her third birthday, Lilly Llewellyn was diagnosed with the life-threatening blood and bone marrow disease.

Thanks to the medical teams at Poole and Southampton hospitals, she’s now in remission and will be eight years old in September.

On Saturday pals of Lilly’s dad Jason at Wimborne Rugby Club will take it in turns to heave-ho for the Poole and District Children’s Cancer Fund, and want more people to take part.

Mum Faye Llewellyn, who’s helped raise over £7,000 since Lilly’s two and a half years of chemotherapy ended in 2007, said: “Lilly’s now full of life, and probably even more active than other little girls her age.

“She’s quite a tomboy, she’s into everything and is always swinging from monkey bars or climbing around. There’s a lot of memories – it’s emotional to think back on. We know families who haven’t been so lucky, and that’s why I do it. It’s my way of giving something back.”

For more than four weeks Lilly was tired, unable to walk and suffered a nine-hour nosebleed before doctors worked out what was wrong and rushed her to hospital.

There, she was pump-fed for 20 hours a day for around six to eight months of her treatment.

Martin Hussey, Lilly’s consultant, chairs the Fund. Money goes to sick children and families in the area to pay for days out, equipment and specialist care.

Faye still wells up thinking about what could have been.

“There’s no golden cure or all-clear,” she said. “Lilly still has regular check ups. That’s just something we’ve got to live with.”

The sponsored Scrummage Push starts at 2.30pm at Wimborne Rugby Club, Leigh Park, off Gordon Road.

Entry is £5 per person or £40 a team. Volunteers to carry collection buckets are also needed.

There will be an after-party at the club, and the club would be grateful for help providing food.

To get involved, call Simon Frost on 07843 598 682