BIG-HEARTED workers at a North-East brewery presented a severely ill three-year-old girl with a Winnie the Pooh teddy bear and a £1,000 cheque for her specialist treatment.
More than £4,000 is needed to treat Chloe Smith, of South Shields, who has hereditary spasicity.
The toddler needs a course of amino acid to improve her condition.
The £1,000 was raised by staff at the Gateshead Federation Brewery, some of it by donating £5 to the company's charity fund instead of sending Christmas cards to colleagues.
Other money was raised by holding a raffle.
Chloe's family plans to send their daughter to the Lee Sykes Centre, in Sunderland, for treatment.
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