A COMMUNITY pulled out all the stops to transform the home of a little boy who has terminal cancer.

Generous fundraisers raised in excess of £30,000 to build an extension on Tyler Witherall’s home so that he could have a bedroom downstairs as brain tumours continue to take their toll on the seven-year-old.

The fundraising also allowed the family to take Tyler to Disneyland Paris, and, last week to Peppa Pig World in Hampshire.

While Tyler away, his mum Amy, 24, and nan Dawn Witherall, friends and family and a host of people and businesses in the community set about turning the extension at his nan’s house where Tyler lives, into comfortable rooms - amid scenes that could have come from TV’s DIY SOS.

Victoria Hazell, 33, from Benfleet is a member of fuindraising runners’ group Team Tyler. She said: “We sent Tyler to Peppa Pig World and while they were away, we roped in the world and his wife to finish the extension. They left on Sunday at 1pm and came back 6pm on Tuesday.

“In that time we did the garden, the living room, the front room, Tyler’s bedroom and put in a new kitchen. When they left it was all bare plaster but now its a home.”

Willing helpers included a team of 15 men from the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Squad who manhandled rubble from the build into an 8yd skip in just one and a half hours.

Mrs Hazell said: “We were overwhelmed. People were working around the clock. Tyler was amazed at his room. He is usually in a wheelchair but standing up and walking round crying.

“He has a pull-out bed now so that someone can stay with him when he can’t get upstairs anymore..

“It was mad really. There was me and other mums driving back from B&Q with bits of kitchen in their cars.”

Tyler’s nan, 46, of Bowers Road, who said: “We didn’t know anything about it. We were only away two days. It’s unbelievable. Tyler couldn’t wait to sleep in his new room.

“I. People I don’t even know have been amazing. I can’t thank everyone enough.”