Welcome to Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK

Make-A-Wish grants magical wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening illnesses. This year the charity is celebrating 21 years of wishgranting. Make-A-Wish was founded in the UK in June 1986 and, since then, we have granted over 4,700 wishes. At any given time, over 20,000 children in the UK are living with life-threatening conditions and our aim is to grant 21 wishes a week by the year 2010. Whether a wish is to be a princess or a policeman for a day, own the latest computer equipment, meet a favourite celebrity or just enjoy some special time away from home with their family, a wish come true brings so much to a child's life and provides memories for the family that last a lifetime.

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Make-A-Wish grants magical wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening illnesses

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Wishes

  • Rachel meets her idols Trinny and Susannah

    Rachel meeting Trinny and Susannah

    15 year old Rachel, from Kilkeel, County Down, had the day every teenage girl dreams of when she enjoyed the company of the UK’s leading fashion stylists, Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine, in Selfridges, London.

  • Cameron meets the Sugababes

    17 year old Cameron, from Dundee, is fighting Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia, and his very special wish came true when he met the Sugababes at the SECC in Glasgow.

  • Zack learns a few tricks from Ronnie O’Sullivan

    10 year old Zack, from Eastbourne, is fighting a heart transplant and being crazy about snooker it was no surprise to Make-A-Wish that his wish was to meet world famous snooker player Ronnie O’Sullivan.

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