Not only was it his number when he started playing basketball a few years ago, it's also the number of his favourite NBA player, Carmelo Anthony, whom he hopes to meet later this month as part of his lifelong wish to go to a New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden.

The 10-year-old was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour in February and his family, with some help from the Bendigo and Ballarat communities, is trying to raise money to get him to the game.

Jaxon's mum Jodie Henderson said the family, who hail from Bendigo but have been living in Ballarat the past five years, was part of the way to fulfilling his wish.

"Through a guy in Ballarat who owns Athlete's Foot, he's actually arranged tickets for us to go and see the game," she said.

"So we've got tickets to see them when we get there."

To help the family afford to get there to enjoy the game, family friend Simonne Rayner has begun a fundraiser for Jaxon and called on the Bendigo community to support it. 

She said people could walk in and buy raffle tickets at several places around the city, including SENS jewellers in Hargreaves Mall, PH Property in Mitchell Street and Webster Real Estate in Mitchell Street.

"There's only 1000 tickets sold in this raffle, and the tickets are $20 each," she said.

"All the money goes into a Bendigo Community Health Services account, and the services will hopefully be able to purchase airplane tickets and pay for accommodation for Jodie and the family to go to America."

Ms Rayner said she was hoping to raise $18,000 for the flights and accommodation. 

The raffle itself, which includes a $2000 first prize donated from Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, will be drawn at 3pm on October 17 at Brewhouse Coffee House in Hargreaves Street. 

She said the coffee house would also be donating $1 from every cup of coffee sold from 8am to 11am towards Jaxon's journey that day.

Jaxon's diagnosis of the rare but aggressive type of childhood cancer known as Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, came as a shock to the family earlier in the year. 

"(It is) basically a brain tumour centred in the Pons, the most important part of your brain," Mrs Henderson said.

"It's incurable and inoperable." 

She said Jaxon received months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy but with little effect.

"Unfortunately, when we went back in the start of September, the tumour had almost doubled," she said.

The family were now completely focused on making as many happy memories as possible, she said.

"It knocked our socks off at the start but we've got to a point where we don't have time to get too upset about it anymore, we have to keep going on and enjoy what we can and make as many memories as possible." 

Jaxon's family have just returned from another special trip a bit closer to home. 

"We've just come back from Cairns, the Starlight Foundation sent us off to go to the Great Barrier Reef," Mrs Henderson said.

While Jaxon told her it was the "best experience of his life" being on the reef, Jodie said his biggest dream was definitely to see a Knicks game.

To donate or to find out more about the fundraiser, visit the Facebook page Jaxon's Journey.