Taylor Made Dreams

What we do

Taylor-Made Dreams make dreams happen for children with life limiting illnesses and provides the family with financial, emotional and practical support alongside their difficult journey. We help create precious memories for families to cherish when time together is all far too short. We do this through a number of services:

Bucket List Wishes

Taylor-Made Dreams assist in the creation of a unique 'TAYLOR-MADE' bucket list to meet the specific needs of each child with a terminal illness. The bucket list includes whatever the child can think of, from toys and days out, to meeting their favourite celebrities & holidays, whatever it may be, we will try our best to fulfil it.

Holistic Therapy & Counselling

The charity has sourced and financially supported hundreds of (ongoing) individual counselling, activity, play and holistic therapy sessions for service users and their primary carers. The therapy service is open to the child referred, the siblings and the primary carers of the family.

Medical Travel Grants

We provide a medical travel grant of £250 per family to assist with transport costs to get to clinical appointments and avoid the added stress of taking public transport. In addition the charity’s seven seated wheelchair access vehicle has enabled families to travel to activities, experiences and holidays arranged and provided by Taylor-Made Dreams. Currently the vehicle is being used to deliver essential items to families shielding due to COVID-19.

Medical Sheepskins

We provide children with a medical sheepskin fleece which relieves sores and pressure points, as well as also helping to regulate temperature.

Family Portraits

We offer the opportunity of a family portrait experience in the form of a studio sitting. The family is presented with a CD containing up to 100 digital images and invited to choose a favourite image which Taylor-Made Dreams digitally transfer onto a canvas, a very precious memoir for the family after their loved one has left.

Photoshoots

We also provide individual makeover portraits of the child – a day where they are treated like a VIP and a beautiful way to remember their loved one (this has been adapted to an online creative photography studio using existing images of their loved ones and transforming them against a backdrop of fairytale magic.

Technology Loan Library

In 2021, Taylor-Made Dreams setup the technology loan library. The Technology Loan Library allows us to provide hands free communication aids for children with limited mobility and/or who are non verbal, through three Skyle eye trackers as well as a Sharp early years interactive table.

Sibling Support Service

In 2022 we launched the Taylor-made Dreams Sibling Support Service to give support to the brothers and sisters of our unwell children. We provide bespoke workshops and day trips for the siblings of unwell children to be connected to other children who understand their situation, to be around other brothers and sisters who face the same challenges they do on a daily basis.

Memory Pendants

After the loss of a child, we present the family with a silver pendant in the form of our charity logo, a dragonfly; with the child’s name engraved on the reverse. This permanent keepsake is a way to remember their loved one long after they have gone.

Enabling children with life limiting illness to achieve their dreams, offer therapy to families, offer wheelchair access vehicle for medical appointments.