A DOUBLE lung transplant man from Bradford who has beaten cancer twice and spends hours each day on kidney dialysis is raising funds for other people in need despite his own health battle.

Harrison Smith, of Larch Drive in Odsal, who has cystic fibrosis and got his new lung in 2007, is determined not to let his own health stop him from helping others.

The 22-year-old former Dixons City Academy student is going back to school for its Christmas Fair on Friday, November 27 in the hope of raising £250 for Parkinson's UK, a charity that helps family friend John Sheffield.

Mr Harrison, who is studying an Open University degree in psychology, will be selling calendars designed by Mr Sheffield, also from Bradford, and raffle tickets at Dixons to give the charity a boost.

After his double lung transplant in 2007, he made good progress at first before a relapse the next year, followed by two bouts of post-transplant lymphoma needing specialist treatment at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

Eventually, because of the cancer, his spleen had to be removed. The drugs he has needed have also damaged his kidneys and he was told he needed a transplant.

It was while he was waiting for a new kidney that he collapsed at home with internal bleeding and had to be put in an induced coma for one week, waking up miles from home on a specialist unit in Newcastle.

Doctors have since told him a faulty ventricle in his heart means he is not strong enough to have a transplant but he hopes one day his heart might improve.

Until then, Mr Harrison has to have two to three hours of kidney dialysis at home every day.

Despite his health battle he is determined not to let it beat him.

His mum Joanne McQuillan said she is proud of him and added: "He is always thinking of others. He's done a sponsored walk for cystic fibrosis and now he's doing this for Parkinsons. We have a friend with it."

Mr Smith has been contacting local businesses for help with the raffle but is still looking for more prizes.

"I've been helped a lot by people because of my own health problems and I just want to give something back to others. This is my way of saying how much I appreciate it," he said.

Anyone who can help should contact him on 07583 900208.