Introducing: Dreams Come True

By | January 10, 2012 at 8:35 am | No comments | CHARITY NEWS

May 2012 sees an unusual route for a Ride2Raise challenge on behalf of Dreams Come True.

Starting in Richmond, the ride heads off on a huge ring around the South and North Downs, taking in the 2012 Olympic Road Race route, Richmond Park and the Surrey Hills, then finishes a day later back in Richmond again!

The Olympic Ring contains 120 miles of the finest climbs and country lanes that the counties of Surrey and Sussex have to offer, as well as the beauty of Richmond Park.

Full details of the ride, and a link to book your place, are HERE.

About Dreams Come True

Dreams Come True is a children’s charity serving the whole of the UK. Their mission is quite simply, to make dreams come true for seriously and terminally ill children across the country. Over the last 10 years they have brought happiness and joy to more than five thousand children as well as their friends, family and carers.

What They Do

Dreams Come True helps children with both life threatening and long-term illness. They operate with complete integrity and dependability – liaising, coordinating, organising, funding and often accompanying the Dream children – to ensure that each child has an unforgettable experience fulfilling their dream, with wonderful memories to share with loved ones and friends.

Each dream is unique. Some children want to meet their celebrity hero or favourite Disney character while others want to visit their grandparents abroad, ride a unicorn, swim with dolphins or work on a fashion magazine. Many want help with their everyday lives and Dreams Come True is delighted to provide vital sensory equipment, wheelchairs or specially adapted bicycles as well.

Why They Do It

Dream Children often have very little to look forward to apart from endless rounds of hospital visits, painful treatments and the prospect of living with a long term debilitating disease. These very brave youngsters can become depressed and frustrated, yet they all dream of things they want to do and achieve.

Fulfilling a dream provides a positive focus empowering both them and their families with new enthusiasm and strength to deal with ongoing daily struggles of illness, gruelling hospital treatment and sometimes sad loss. It is a legacy of hope and well being that is poignantly expresses in many hundreds of thank you letters received from Dream Children and their families.

The mission

To bring joy to terminally and seriously ill children by making their dreams come true

The vision

That every terminally and seriously ill child with a dream has the opportunity for that dream to come true

The commitments

  • to excel at fulfilling dreams and at creating the resources to fulfil them
  • to recognize that every child is unique and every dream is unique
  • to treat all children and their families with respect, care, compassion and empathy
  • to recognize the importance of everyone in the organisation to fulfilling our mission
  • to celebrate the contribution made by all who work in and on behalf of Dreams Come True, all the hard working volunteer fundraisers and each and every donor to the Charity.

 

For more information on Dreams Come True visit the website HERE.

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