Updated on Jun 9th 2012 at 9:27 AM from the JustGiving API

Now upto 76%!! Thank you... Let's keep going!! Xx

Updated on May 1st 2012 at 8:09 AM from the JustGiving API

Upto 8% of our mammoth target! Thank you so much to all who have donated so far... Evan's Fun Day 6th May. Keep everything crossed for good weather xxxx

Updated on Apr 17th 2012 at 10:57 PM from the JustGiving API

Thank you for your donations so far! We are 3% of our mammoth £10,000 challenge. Bite size chunks and all that!

<p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Thanks for taking the time to visit Evan's Trust.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2007 Laura and&nbsp;I found out we were expecting our first child;&nbsp;we hadn't&nbsp;planned for this but were thrilled non the less that we were going to be parents.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">On the 17th August 2007 Evan George Brooke Steel, our first son was born. The most perfect and adorable son you will ever see...An Angel.&nbsp;After a massively complicated and prolonged</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> labour</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;sadly Evan was left in a critical state with severe brain damage. Evan passed away in&nbsp;our&nbsp;arms at 14 hours old.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Laura and I travelled through&nbsp;some dark times following on from this and our life&rsquo;s would never be the same again.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">In 2008 came the arrival of Scarlett Eve Brooke Steel, she was delivered via arranged C-Section. This is where Laura and I began to feel some kind of meaning within the world again. Scarlett is now 3 and a half and very clever!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">In 2010 we had some fantastic news again! We were expecting our 2nd son. With an arranged C-Section&nbsp;of the 20th May 2011 we were really looking forward to meeting our little man. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A&nbsp;mother&rsquo;s intuition played its part and Laura felt we needed to go into hospital on the 19th May. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Roman George Brooke Steel was born via</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <span>emergency</span></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> C-Section that day fighting for his life.&nbsp;It was&nbsp;feared that&nbsp;he had severe brain damage, kidney problems, acid in his blood and a severe heart condition. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Roman was in the same neonatal intensive care unit as his brother Evan for 2 weeks. When&nbsp;he was strong enough he was taken to Glenfield Hospital to have heart surgery to correct his pulmonary valve. This operation was a great success and Roman is now fighting fit and crawling...nearly walking at 11 months.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Laura and I are so appreciative of the kind staff at Leicester General Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and all they did for us with both Evan and Roman. We are trying to raise money to help support the ward and buy the things they really need to save life&rsquo;s to help people in the same position as we were.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Please donate as generously as you can, we desperately want to get to &pound;10,000 as a first target to show the ward how grateful we are for all their help and support.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">In loving memory of the greatest son ever born... Our little fighter.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><strong>"Forget Me Not"<br><br></strong>Forget me not, I ask of you<br>Wherever your life takes you to<br>And if we never meet again<br>Think of me every now and then<br><br>We had just one day to recall<br>Now all I want is something more<br>Than just a fading memory<br>Left wondering what could have been.<br><br>Isn't it a shame, that when timing's all wrong<br>You're doing what you never meant to,<br>There's always something that prevents you.<br>Well I believe in fate, it had to happen this way<br>But it always leaves me wondering whether...<br>In another life we'd be together.<br>We should feel lucky we can say... we've always got yesterday<br><br>And as I leave it all behind<br>You're still emblazoned in my mind<br>And for that very special day<br>Nobody loved me in that way<br><br>Forget me not, I ask of you<br>Wherever your life takes you to<br>And if we never meet again<br>Think of me every now and then </span>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> <p>Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving &ndash; they&rsquo;ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they&rsquo;ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it&rsquo;s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</p> <p>So please dig deep and donate now.</p> </p>