Wish Archive - Page 3

When we recieved an application for Karen we just knew we had to do something.

Karen was suffering with Triple Negative Breast Cancer and had always dreamed of taking a trip to London with her family. Due to illness and other unforseen circumstances, the trip had never happened and the chance that they would get to go was looking bleaker and bleaker.

Kathryn, Karen's daughter liased with us and explained that she would love to make this happen for her mum as she knew how much it would mean to her to get away and have her dream trip.

We contacted the relevant people and managed to get the dream break she had always wanted.

Karen and her husband flew from Glasgow to Bristol where they met up with their daughter Kathryn. We booked them a hotel in Bristol and the next day all 3 travelled to London by train to watch The Lion King on the Westend.

On their return, Karen contacted us to say:

"Hi Kerri

I wanted to email to thank the HoneyRose Foundation so much for my great trip to London to see "The Lion King ". I have attached a few photos of myself and my husband George. (My daughter who applied to you for this gift didn't want to be in any of photos).

We stayed in the Premier Inn in Bristol near where my daughter lives then we all got the train to London. We walked (I was pushed in my wheelchair) to the theatre area and had a lovely lunch together then we went to see The Lion King matinee. The show was absolutely amazing and we all really loved it. After the long walk back we had some dinner and then caught the train back to Bristol.

Thank you so much for this amazing gift as we could never have afforded to do all this ourselves as we live on my disability benefits and my husband is my full time carer. It was so lovely that my daughter was able to come with us as well.

Thank you so much.  

Yours

Karen xxx"

Back in October 2016, we sent Nick and his family to create some extra special memories at his favourite Football Club; West Ham.

They spent the day at West Ham watching a game and eventually got to meet the players.

Due to their long journey from Somerset to West Ham, we also got the family a stay in a hotel so that Nick could be fuelled rested and refuelled before heading home.

Once he returned home, we received this email from his wife, Julie: 

“Thank you so much for organising our trip to West Ham last October. It was the most wonderful day that we as a family will never forget. It was well organised and our Guide was lovely. We really enjoyed going pitch side and took hundreds of photos! It was amazing to stand in the stadium at the foot of the pitch. Wow! It was fab! We had fabulous seats just behind the goal so we could see everything. The atmosphere was great and we all loved it. The best bit was when West Ham scored in injury time. Everyone cheered and the delight on Nick, Eliza and Stuart’s faces when they scored was priceless. It meant everything. I was rather full up and am right now as I am writing this email. How wonderful that West Ham should win on our special day and on mine and Stuart’s first ever match. We can’t thank you enough for all that you did to make a very special memory for our family.”