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Monday 1st September saw the
West Essex Golf Club host the Dial-a-Dream Charity Golf Classic designed to
help raise money for the charity. DaD was originally set up in the late
1980’s by two Dial-a-Cab drivers who were talking about a disturbing
incident involving a children’s charity that had been set up to make sick
children’s wishes come true, but which had suddenly cancelled an organised
trip due to "financial irregularities." Those same two drivers, Tom Whitbread and Bob ‘the dog’ Heath, later went on to set up Dial-a-Dream - you can guess how they thought of the name! It is a completely voluntary organisation which helps make wishes come true for sick children – often terminally ill - between the ages of 3 and 18. The golf tournament drew a wide variety of teams-of-four including Tullets & Liberty, Anglo Irish Bank and of course DaC and raised £7000 for Dial-a-Dream. Perhaps the biggest shock, though, was that the foursome representing Dial-a-Cab – Allen Togwell, Peter Boxall (B89), Howard |
DAC TEAM WIN DIAL-A-DREAM GOLF CLASSIC
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Pears and Keith Andrews – actually won the tournament and the
accompanying mementoes! "It was a great day," Company Secretary / Finance Manager Howard Pears told Call Sign, "not only did we win, but it was a wonderful experience knowing that we were helping children who found themselves through no fault of anyone, in such a sad predicament." Dial-a-Dream is now one of the longest running and most respected charities of its kind and over the years the number of children whose wishes have |
been fulfilled runs well into four figures. Some
children wish for fairly simple things, some have never had a bike and would
love one, while yet others have their fantasies of going to meet Mickey
Mouse at either Disneyland Paris or Disneyworld Florida (where Dial-a-Dream
have two properties which are used for the children) brought to reality. |
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