A six-year-old boy with a Paralympic dream has joined forces with an Australian stuntman to help children who wear prosthetics.

Matt Coulter, who entertains crowds around the world as the Kangaroo Kid, met prosthetic-wearing Ollie Bauert at the Royal Welsh Show last year. Ollie, a Cross Ash school pupil from Monmouth, suffers from a congenital birth defect called PFFD and will have to wear a prosthetic for life. His dream is to run in the Paralympics.

Inspired by Ollie, Matt set up The Kanga Kids Foundation to help fund sports prothesis and equipment for youngsters with lower limb abnormalities.

"I, probably like half the country, imagined that any child requiring a prosthesis would have everything, robotics and special sports limbs," said Matt.

"I've seen enough of the amazing things that can be done on television. I was shocked to learn that not only do families have to fight to get the prostheses their children need but that it can depend entirely on the location of the child as to whether sports prosthetics will be granted.

"We simply want to give these children a chance to enjoy as normal a childhood as possible, it seems cruel to have shown them all what they could do with the correct limbs and apparatus, in the 2012 Paralympics, and then say 'sorry, you can't have them'."

Currently awaiting a decision from the health board on Ollie's suitability for a sports prosthetic blade, his mum Micaela and fellow mum Clare Foster felt strongly enough to join Matt in his campaign to raise funds for families who have been turned down and have to start raising funds themselves.

Sports prostheses can cost a family upwards of £4,000, and with a child that limb will probably only last for one year.

Blades, such as the ones that Oscar Pistorious and Jonny Peacock have made so famous, can change a child's life completely.

The Kanga Kids Foundation will be officially launching on 15th March at The Chase Hotel in Ross-on-Wye.

Matt will be hosting the evening, which promises to be great fun with Rat Pack entertainer William May, a sit down meal and plenty of interesting surprises.

Tickets are available from [email protected]">[email protected] and are £45.

At the time of going to press there are still several rooms available at The Chase Hotel, bookable through the Kanga Kids Foundation.