Dreamflight UK activity holiday for children

Aim

Help 25 children with a serious disability or illness build confidence and independence, challenge themselves, make friends and have fun!

Dreamflight in the UK

Each year, Dreamflight take 192 children with a serious illness or disability on a 10-day trip of a lifetime to Orlando, without their parents. The trip helps them build their confidence, independence, make friends and gain a whole new outlook on life. 

However, for some very children, this trip is not right for them. 

A UK adventure trip gives a child with even the most complex needs the chance to experience activities they may never have thought possible – zip-lining, ab-seiling horse riding, swimming, playing games and sharing a sleepover with a new friend.

For these children, these aren’t just regular activities. These are moments of freedom, independence and belonging.

Will you give a gift today so that more children like Charlie can discover their freedom through Dreamflight?

Next year, we want to deliver two life-changing trips to accessible activity centres and double the number of young people we’re supporting through these UK adventure weekends. 

• If 125 BA staff pledge £20 to Dreamflight, you can send one child to go on a trip with Dreamflight in the UK. 
• If 1,500 BA staff pledge £20 to Dreamflight, you can send all 25 children to go on a trip of a lifetime in the UK with Dreamflight.

In a world where they’re often told they can’t, you can give the opportunity to say “I can”. Thank you.

Meet Charlie

Charlie loves seeing his friends. 

But when Charlie was 12 years old, his world changed overnight. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, life quickly became a routine of planning, monitoring, injections and hospital visits.

Every daily task, from eating to exercise, now needed careful supervision and management by his parents.

Charlie, who is also autistic, struggled to come to terms with a lifelong condition that limited his freedom. Since his diagnosis, Charlie hadn’t spent a single day or night away from his parents.

Going to Calvert Devon with Dreamflight changed everything. For the first time ever, with the support of expert medical volunteers, he was safely given the freedom to manage his diabetes on his own.

Charlie returned home with happy memories, but more importantly, he returned with confidence and independence.

“We always knew he was capable of taking responsibility for his diabetes, but this experience has given us all the reassurance that he CAN do it. For Charlie, that’s a sense of freedom that we always hoped for. It’s been life-changing for the whole family”. – Bec, Charlie’s mum

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made