FILM director Shane Meadows and actress Vicky McClure may end up biking up a mountain after launching building work on a ward for teenage cancer patients.
The big names donned hard hats at the city's Queen's Medical Centre to see work start on the project.
But the Teenage Cancer Trust still needs to raise £200,000 to pay for the £600,000 five-bed facility, for 13-to-18-year-olds with cancer from the East Midlands.
Now actors from Meadows' film and TV series This Is England could be recruited to help.
"I am thinking about me and the cast doing a bike ride up a mountain," said the director, an ambassador for the charity.
"My idea is to have a live camera in each person's helmet and you pay 50p to watch 'agony cam' as we go!"
"Well, it has to happen now you have said it!" added Vicky.
Shane urged people to donate to the cause.
"I think a lot of people have the idea that charities are national but this is actually a ward being built here in Nottingham and, who knows, it could be my kids that need it," he said. "People think it will take a lot of time and not everyone has got the time to organise a fundraiser, but even if it is just £3 over a text message that will help."
The Nottingham actress, who plays Lol in This Is England, started working with the trust 18 months ago when it asked her to open its unit at Nottingham City Hospital
This week the Line Of Duty and Broadchurch star was announced as an ambassador for the charity and told the Post: "It is not the sort of thing once you have done that you can turn away from.
"It is hard enough being a teenager anyway, never mind battling with cancer and all the difficulties that will come with that. Being 17 with hormones and God knows what else... the ward brings a social life to them," said Vicky, who lives at Toton.
Kris Dunn, 17, from Bulwell, was diagnosed with terminal osteosarcoma in March 2012 and, after treatment at QMC, was moved to the unit.
"It makes such a difference be with people your own age," he said. "When you are in a kids ward, you spend all day in bed and all night and it makes you feel worse, it reminds you that you are sick.
"Don't get me wrong, I got on with the nurses at QMC really well, but I was surrounded by babies crying and just me in the middle. The closest age I had to me was 10 or 12 so I was talking more to the parents than the kids."
The unit at City Hospital has helped him handle the treatment he is going through, giving him some respite from the stress he is under.
"Now I can go to the chill-out area, play pool and chat with people the same age and like me," he said. "It just makes you feel a lot better and not like you're sick. People don't seem sick around you. It really does help."
Professor Richard Grundy, paediatric oncology consultant at the QMC, was excited about work getting under way at the ward, which is due to be finished in October.
"It will make a huge difference when we create this space that teenage patients can regard as their own," he said.
"Having their peers around means they can talk together about what they are going through. That peer support is so valuable in helping them with their treatment."
The Teenage Cancer Trust unit is just one part of a major investment into children's services at the QMC.
The £4.5 million development will also see a new, improved ward for younger cancer patients up to 13 years old, paid by Nottingham Hospitals Charity, the Teenage Cancer Trust and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Call 0115 962 7905 or visit nottinghamhospitalscharity.org.uk to talk to Nottingham Hospitals Charity about fundraising.
