Jane's appeal boosted by £50,000

Mrs Tomlinson lost her seven-year battle with terminal cancer on Monday night.

The 43-year-old mother-of-three raised £1.75 million through a series of endurance events. It is hoped Jane's Appeal will continue to raise substantial funds for cancer and children's charities despite her death.

Family friend and spokesman Ryan Bowd said donations and tributes flooded in since her death was announced.

He said: "We are obviously ecstatic that the money is still being donated and people are expressing their own sense of loss about Jane.

"Jane's Appeal will continue and we hope it will still be here in the next 20 years. We don't think the work of Jane will stop."

Mrs Tomlinson, from Rothwell, Leeds, was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1990 and had a mastectomy and lymph nodes removed from under her arm.

The cancer returned in her breast in 1993 and spread to her lungs and bones in 2000, when doctors told her she only had months to live.

But Mrs Tomlinson defied the experts and spent the next seven years raising money for charity through challenges such as marathons, triathlons, a tandem cycle ride from Rome to Leeds and a 4,200-mile bike ride across America, from San Francisco to New York. She was awarded the MBE for her work in June 2003 and made a CBE in June this year.

On Tuesday, Mrs Tomlinson's family said they were "heartbroken" at the death of the wife and mother. And Prime Minister Gordon Brown described her as a "daily inspiration" with "amazing spirit and strength".