Dreams really can come true

with your help
 
 

When You Wish Upon A Star is a wonderful charity which helps make wishes come true for sick and terminally ill children throughout Britain. They have granted over 10,000 wishes since a lady named Barbara started the charity back in 1990. The highlight of the charities year is a trip to Lapland, where children have the opportunity to go on husky rides and sleigh rides with Rudolph.  Celebrities also accompany the children and join in the fun, which provide the children with an unforgettable experience.

 

I attended a Charity Ball (2003) for When You Wish Upon a Star and I helped raise a whopping £10.000, which was fantastic.
 

MY WISH WAS TO RAISE £5,000,00 BY DECEMBER 2005, 

WHICH I AM PLEASED TO SAY I MANAGED.

I WOULD NOW LIKE TO TRY AND DOUBLE THIS AMOUNT AND RAISE £10,000

BY DECEMBER 2006
 

It would be even nicer if I could raise £65,000,00 to fund the trip to Lapland for 100 sick and terminally ill children by December 2008 to see the real Santa, that would really make my Christmas.


I am pleased to announce that the members of the Conservative Club in Wythenshawe raised the following amount by having a charity night.
£1210.00


 

I am pleased to announce that my 2008 Valentine Charity Ball raised

£23,000,00p

Thank you to Keith, Pat & Alex for all your help
and Thank You to
David, Danny, Marcus and James from Eton Road for coming down to help me present the cheque to Carol from the wish team.

I am really pleased to announce that my November 2006 Charity Ball raised

£24,801,63p

Thank you to Keith, Pat, Alex & family for all your help
 

Fred Talbot (weatherman for Granada TV), Ruth Jagger (from wish), Stuart Hall (reporter for channel M TV), Me and Keith Oldfield (my  sponsor)
 

It cost £65,000,00 to send 100 poorly children to Lapland to meet the real Santa
Please help a poorly child's dream come true, this could be there last Christmas.
You can make your donation in the following ways:

  • Online - safely and securely by clicking on the following link

  • e-mail or

  • write to the following address:

 

Kirsty A
"When You Wish Upon A Star"
c/o 32 Tramore Walk,
Manchester,
M22 5QW

Mobile phones and old ink cart’s wanted please e-mail me

if you can help in anyway

"Thank you"

Money I have raised to date, please keep watching for my target going up.

I NEED TO RAISE £65,000,00p

By December 2008
 

"I have reached my target and can now send 100 poorly children to Lapland to visit the real Santa in Lapland in December 2008"

 

I now want to raise a further £60,000,00 by July 2009 so that I can send 30 families to Center Parcs, Sherwood Forest for a 5 day holiday. This 5 day brake will give the families of the poorly child some quality time together away from the hospital. I want the week to be filled with fun and adventures for the children and there families, an holiday to remember.

               

If you would like to buy a pin badge at the cost of £1,00 each or make a donation please contact me by e-mail, or write to the above address your help would be very much appreciated and you will be helping to make a dream come true for a poorly child. 

 

I chose this particular charity because they help grant so many different wishes for very poorly and terminally ill children up to the age of 16 years. Every year they take a plane full of children to Lapland to see the “real” farther Christmas.

I went to Lapland when I was 9 years old for the way I cope with my own illness and this is also my way of saying thank you.

The money I have raised will help send some very sick and terminally ill children to visit Lapland to meet the "real" Santa Claus. I will never forget the day I spent at Lapland it helped me forget all about hospitals, needles, x-rays and pain that I was in. If you could only see the smile it brings to a child’s face when they go up and shake the hand of the "real" Santa. I’m sure you would not have a dry eye.


I have raised money by:

  • Selling over 800 pin badges (at £1,00 each)

  • Having a car boot sale at school

  • Having a tombola stall at school

  • Sponsored spell (by my self) 200 words, which was done at school in my dinner hour.

  • No uniform day at school

  • Filled 5 collection boxes

  • Doing a speech at the police Christmas carol service (collection made at the end of it)

  • Selling homemade teddies to friends at school (donated by the police)

  • Selling toys at the front of my house

  • Growing and selling tomato plants at front of my house

  • Auction of a Coronation St’ script (donated by Julie re:Haley)

  • Plus some donations which people have sent me after reading my story in the paper

  • Also received £100,00 for my charity when I won the police Young Citizen of the Year Award for Trafford

  • Tombola 2004

  • Fun Day at school                                                                

  • Raffle 2004

  • Large fun day at school/ rugby tournament

  • City football signed

  • Altrincham football signed and 2 season tickets

  • Captain Cash T-Shirt

  • Man’ U Banner signed

  • Ride in a Limo’

  • Wembly football program from 1949 England v Scotland

  • Shell Distributions £100,00

  • Raffle and sale at school 2005

  • Friends Alan, Lee and Nicky having a collection outside Tesco's

  • 40's Event

  • Royal Mail made a £500,00 contribution 

  • Manchester Evening News & Britannia £3000,00 (when I won the Pride of Manchester)

  • Donations from well wishes  (Thank you)

  • 40's Event at King George, Altrincham March '06 £793,30p

  • Peel Hall Primary School raised £500,00

  • Keith Oldfield (Copy Shop) donated a £300,00 camera and sold pin badges plus kindly does the printing for my events.

  • Raffle at the Lock "N" Load Comedy Club.

  • School Tombola 2006

  • Chairman of Matalan made £650.00 donation

  • Karen from Weight Watchers £790,00 sold pin badges along with other events

  • Charity Ball £24,801,63p with help from Keith, Pat & Alex Oldfield

  • Home made Christmas Cards

  • 1940's Event April '07 raised £1,471,44p

  • Kersh raised £1,300,00 on the BUPA run, well done kersh mate

  • Valentine Ball £23,000,00

  • Conservative Club Charity night £1210.00

 



Linda Huyton pictured
with me who
 presented  with a
cheque
for £100,00
on behalf of
Kay Alexander,
donated by
Shell Distributions
for
When You Wish
Upon A Star



Lee, Nicky and Alan
held a collection
at Tesco’s,
Altrincham for
When You Wish
Upon A Star.
Thank you Guy's.


 

This is me doing
a thank you speech

The collection at Tesco's
and the 40's evening
together raised
raised £1,168,00,
which is a
fantastic amount.

 

 
 

Thank you to Vicky, Sean and the guys who work really hard on the front desk at Shell who sold raffle tickets raising a further £58,40p with all the money going to wish.

 

Paul Sleem with
his daughter
and me.

 

 

Me with Ruth
I handed Ruth
a cheque
from the
Royal Mail


 Paul Sleem
draws the raffle

 

 

Selling raffle tickets
at Lock
"N" Load Comedy Club.



 


 

Me pictured with Sam,
and Ruth when
 I handed them the
 £3000,00 cheque I won
when I was named
 the Pride of Manchester
by the Manchester
Evening News
readers

 

My good friend
Eric Archer who
came down and
supported me at
I managed to raise
 £342.00 over
the two events.
 

Pat, Ruth, Keith and Me as we
hand over the cheque to Ruth
for £24.801.63p.
Money raised from the Ball

 

Fred Talbot, Ruth Jagger,
Stuart Hall,
Me and Keith Oldfield.

 

 

1940's Event 2007

The 1940’s event that we had for when you wish upon a star went well. Approx 100 attended the event mainly dressed in 1940s attire; I was dressed as an evacuee. The Royal Mail Via their Charity Trust Fundraising Programme helped me achieve the target of £1.471.44 by donating £500 towards the charity. Thanks To Andy Sutton (Delivery Office Manager Altrincham & Alan Bates of Royal Mail). Music was provided by (Mick Wilson THE FEW) Plus a Tribute to the Andrews Sisters Nicki Griffin, Lesley & Stacey Bates. We had the Original WW2 Military Vehicles out side the pub, which were provided Lee Brindley & Andy Linstead (Willys Jeep & Dodge Weapons Carrie. The King George Pub Was Decorated with flags and Bunting, which looked great and we had food of the forties Corned Beef Hash that went down a treat. The  Blitz Raffle & Auction was great too, for the auction I had a framed photo of all the Coronation street cast, which was signed by them all and a limited edition David Shepherd signed print. Mr. Eric Archer of Hale won both bids and then kindly presented me with the signed Coronation picture. Thank you to everyone who helped in making this event such a success and a Big "Thank You" goes to Keith, Pat and Alex Oldfield at the CopyShop, Cheadle, for doing all my printing for the event.
 

Carol, Me, Sam and Ruth

Handing the cheque over to the wish team
 

Harry Singleton gave me the following pictures to auction at my Valentine Ball in February '08 after reading my letter in the Manchester Evening News. pictures are of : Tiger Woods,  signed with a certificate of authenticity, Lester Piggott winning on “right win” signed and pictures of Colin Bell, Francis Lee & Mike Summerbee all signed. so fingers crossed these should raise a few £1000's pounds for the poorly children. "Thank You" Harry.
 

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