Gifts and wishes

Abbie's Sparkle Foundation: give children​ gifts​ and ​grants​, or as they call them “Sparkles” assessed on an individual basis, dependant on need. The charity also provides short break accommodation at a lodge in Aviemore.

AR26 Experiences: aim to tailor each experience to become a very personal, unique and special time. Experiences are granted via a referral process only.

Butterfly Wishes Network: provides professional free photography for families of children with life-limiting or life-threatening illnesses. They can be photographed at home or in a care setting. 

Calums Cabin: provides holiday homes for children facing cancer. Their holiday facilities are on the Isle of Bute and in Ayrshire.  Other accommodation includes flats in Glasgow close to cancer treatment centres which allow families from across the country to stay together in welcoming, home-from-home surroundings during extended periods of treatment.  

CEA Card Cinema Scheme: enables a disabled cinema guests to receive a complimentary ticket for someone to go with them when they visit a participating cinema. 

Cyclists Fighting Cancer: offers help to children and young people living with cancer across the UK to regain their physical fitness, improve mental wellness and reduce social isolation by giving them new lightweight bikes, specially adapted trikes, cycling related equipment and support.

Dragonfly Cancer Trust: aims to support children and young people facing a life-threatening cancer diagnosis. They can provide memory making opportunities in the form of cash gifts, memory and sibling boxes, activity boxes and personalised keepsakes for families to treasure.

The Dream Factory: aims to brighten lives and encourage hope for children and young adults aged 3-25 who have life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and/or severe disabilities by way of granting wishes and dreams.

Dreams Come True: aims to provide children and young adults (2-21 years) who are living with a disability, serious illness, or life-limiting conditions from the highest areas of deprivation in the UK, the opportunity to fulfil their dreams. 

Eilidh Brown Memorial Trust: can offer breaks at a purpose built respite accommodation in the Stirlingshire Area. For young people and their families who are going through, went through cancer or are bereaved.

Ellen Macarthur Cancer Trust: a national charity that takes young people on sailing and outdoor adventures to inspire them to believe in a brighter future living through and beyond cancer. Trips are arranged for age 8-17 and 18-24. 

Flynnes Barn: providing opportunities for young people to meet with others who have similar experiences of cancer is now widely recommended through support groups, peer to peer opportunities, expressive therapies, technology-based and skills-based interventions.

Gateway Scotland: provides free holidays for families who have experienced the bereavement of a loved one, or are supporting a family member through a serious illness or disability. Our holidays are provided within the Hunters Quay Holiday Village on the west coast of Scotland.

Gift of a Wedding: aims to offer the gift of a wedding or a vow renewal to terminally ill people in the UK. 

Greig Steven Memorial:  Greig’s House offers those in Scotland suffering from cancer, a 5-night complimentary break in Wemyss Bay and are situated within Park Dean Resort.  They accept applications from all age groups, children, young people, and adults, regardless of stage and type of cancer.

Hamish Dear's Warm Hugs: can offer gifts, vouchers and short breaks for children and young people up to age 19 and their families. 

Its Good to Give: aims to support the physical and mental well-being of young cancer patients and their families in Scotland. They can provide overnight packs and shopping vouchers. The charity also hosts young cancer patients and their families at The Ripple Retreat on the shores of Loch Venachar.

Little Princess Trust: provides free real hair wigs to children and young people up to the age of 24, who have lost their own hair through cancer treatment or other conditions.

Logan's Fund: aim to provide anything that will give a cause for optimism or an alternative focus away from hospital and beyond the treatment they are going through for any child and their family affected by cancer. The charity has a sponsorship programme, offer rainbow grants and they also have a caravan on the Moray Firth in the North East of Edinburgh. 

Make a Wish UK: grants life-changing wishes for children in the UK, who are aged 3-17 and living with a critical condition. Children have the chance to choose a wish that's unique to them. 

Merlin's Magic Wand: offers days out and breaks in partnership with Merlin Entertainment and Attractions. For children aged 2-18 facing serious and long term illnesses, a registered disability, those who have a terminally ill sibling or a recently deceased family member. 

Over the Wall: is a UK based charity for children with serious illness and disabilities, and their families, to discover a world of mischief and magic. A place where they can be brave and have fun with others. These amazing places are physical in residential camps and also available online with Camp in the Cloud.

Rays of Sunshine: aims to brighten the lives of seriously ill children aged three to 18 across the UK by granting their magical wishes and providing ongoing support within hospitals and in the community.

SimPal Charity: offer free, pre-paid SIM cards with data, along with phones and laptops when available, to people living with cancer, life-threatening conditions, or those disadvantaged by poor health or poverty.  

Supershoes: patients up to age of 24 can receive a pair of Supershoes if resident in the UK (including Channel Islands) and currently in treatment for cancer. Each pair of shoes is designed and hand-painted by a Super Artist to capture that child and all their favourite things: games, sports team, music, animals, colours etc.  

Symphony of Dreams Charity Trust: aims to provide bespoke ‘musical dreams’ for people who are disadvantaged through having life-limiting conditions, are disabled, chronically ill, or suffer from the effects of poverty in Scotland.

Thumbs Up for Charlie: aims to support families living with or affected by childhood brain tumours offering respite breaks to make memories or simply to reflect.  Accommodations are in Cumbria and Lancashire.

When You Wish Upon a Star: aims to grant the wishes of children age 4-16 living with a life threatening illness. Children who have had wishes granted by other organisations will not be eligible.

Whiteleys Retreat: offers free therapeutic short breaks and extended support for children, young people (up to age 24), and their families, with cancer and life altering illnesses across Scotland. Accommodation is based in Ayrshire.

Willow: aimed at 6-40 year olds in the UK newly diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. They can offer special treat boxes, special days at home for all the family,  special days out and special breaks away from it all.

Youth Cancer Trust: can offer free wellbeing holidays in Dorset for teenagers and young adults (age 14-30) living with and beyond cancer. Holidays are also available for young people who have been in remission for up to 5 years or who are living with the late effects of having had cancer as a teenager or young adult.