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Make-A-Wish and British Gas win charity award! (16/05/2012)

Corporate partner British Gas shares win with us in Successful Fundraising Challenge category... At last night’s Business Charity Awards, held at London’s Grosvenor Hotel, British Gas and Make-A-Wish took the award for the best business staff team which took part in a successful fundraising challenge benefiting a UK charity. More than 400 employees of all ages and roles applied for the 34 places available on the fundraising challenge to conquer Mount Kilimanjaro...

Special Harvester Sundae set to grant wishes (09/05/2012)

Longtime Make-A-Wish charity partner Harvester is launching a brand new ice cream sundae which will benefit Make-A-Wish. The Chocolate Star Sundae is an irresistible blend of milk chocolate covered nougat pieces, with rich Devonshire toffee sauce and Belgium chocolate sauce, topped with milk chocolate stars and...

Save money when you sign up for run challenges! (08/05/2012)

GREAT NEWS! For a limited period only, from now until the end of May 2012, we're HALVING the deposit amount for signing up to run for us in the Great North Run and/or the Liverpool Marathon. \"\"[http://www.make-a-wish.org.uk/fundraising/challenge-yourself/running-events/great-north-run/] The Great North Run[[sitetree_link id=67]] takes place on Sunday 16...

See our latest newsletter, online (24/04/2012)

Here's a direct link to our new newsletter, 'I Wish...'. This is the latest issue, covering April – August 2012 - we publish three times a year, in April, August and December. Please click here to enjoy our new issue... You can: FIND OUT why actor...

Thank you, London Marathon runners! (23/04/2012)

A big thank you from Make-A-Wish to all 82 runners who braved the London Marathon on Sunday in order to fundraise for us. As far as we can tell, everyone made it to the finish, so we’re thrilled about that! It turned out to...

Liam and Neil's market success! (17/04/2012)

Back in June we granted then 15 year old Liam’s wish to meet Paul O’Grady. He lives with congenital heart defects and two years ago suffered a seriously debilitating brain abscess. We’re delighted to say that his father, Neil, has recently applied to become...

Apply now to become a volunteer Wish Visitor in Cornwall (11/04/2012)

We are looking for more volunteer Wish Visitors[[sitetree_link id=93]] to help us grant wishes in Cornwall. Wish Visitors play a big part in bringing hope, excitement and magic to the lives of some very deserving children and young people. They arrange to go and see a...

Take a break for Make-A-Wish! (02/04/2012)

We’re delighted to announce a fantastic new way of raising funds for Make-A-Wish – just by going on holiday! \"\"[http://makeawish.rivieratravel.co.uk/] Award-winning escorted tours operator Riviera Travel[http://makeawish.rivieratravel.co.uk/]is going to donate 10% of the full cost of any holiday booked by supporters of Make-A-Wish. Voted the UK’s Second Best...

Warwick Davis becomes Ambassador for Make-A-Wish (22/03/2012)

We’re delighted to announce actor Warwick Davis as our latest Ambassador. * * Warwick, seen in our picture with fellow Make-A-Wish Ambassador Kate Garraway on the Daybreak set, is most notable for playing the title characters in Willow and the Leprechaun film series, as well as for...

Shop on Amazon and help grant wishes! (01/03/2012)

Great news! Now you can donate via Amazon.co.uk - at no extra cost to you! Amazon is one of the world's biggest online merchandise sites - which in plain English means that an awful lot of us use the site to buy items online. We've now...