A YORK pub is set to help a multiple sclerosis victim fly to an American clinic to beat her crippling pain.

The Gimcrack, in Fulford Road, is planning a major fund-raising day in June to benefit Yasmin Heesom, who is trying to raise £10,000 to go to the Schachter Centre in New York.

Events include bungee jumping in the car park, a disco, a barbecue, a bouncy castle and an egg-throwing contest.

Yasmin, 40, who lives near the pub in St Oswald's Road, has been inspired by the way cancer victim Gail Hepworth's pain dramatically eased after she visited the clinic last autumn. The Evening Press reported recently how Gail, 40, of Hemingbrough, near Selby, who was receiving 1,200 mgs of morphine per day before she went to America, had come completely off the drug.

Yasmin's carer, Debbie Walker, said the fund had now reached £3,300, and the event at the Gimcrack would be a major boost.

"It's really exciting. We only live down the road and Yasmin goes in there occasionally. She would hope to come along on the fundraising day."

She said another of Yasmin's carers, Meika Cooke, who recently completed a sponsored parachute jump for the fund, hoped to continue her dare-devil activities by going bungee jumping as well. Gimcrack landlord Kevin O'Neill said the fundraising would take up the whole day, on Saturday, June 24.

"It's really good we can do something for a local person," he said. "She has been in the pub, and it's nice to be able to do something for her."

The bungee jumping would take place between noon and 4pm. People would get sponsorship, with the first £40 paying for the jump and the rest going to Yasmin's fund.

Kevin said 25 to 30 people had already signed up to jump, and he hoped they would each be able to collect £80 to £100 in sponsorship.

"We're having a barbecue in the back garden, and a bouncy castle for the kids. And we're having two discos, one outdoors and the other inside. We're praying for sunshine."