A CHARITY which offers specialist help to sufferers of cerebral palsy has set up a fundraising lottery game.

The Lee Sykes National Centres, believe its Big Chance Lottery could raise up to £1m a year.

It offers a one-in-five chance of winning, with a top prize of £3,000.

Proceeds will go towards the Lee Sykes National Centres, in Sunderland, and at Birkenhead and Chorley, in the North-West, set up in the name of a 15-year-old cerebral palsy sufferer from Sunderland, to offer free conductive education.

The first sales machine was installed yesterday, at Farringdon Newsagents, in Sunderland, with city council leader Colin Anderson.

More details of the lottery and the centres, is available on 0191-551 6357, or via its web-site www.leesykes.com.