Dial-a-Dream - the children's charity that was founded at Dial-a-Cab by Tom Whitbread and Bob Heath in 1989 to realise dreams for terminally ill children – recently received an email from the Regional Manager of Vodafone Central in Oxford Street. Stuart had read about their charity and was impressed by the fact that it was very small, yet run successfully by volunteers so that all the money collected could be spent on turning what could be a child's last dream into a reality. Some of these children literally have just days to live, yet may still have that one dream left in their mind and it is often Dial-a-Dream who start a race against time to help realise that dream before time runs out for the child.
   These children have been dealt life’s cruellest blow by contracting an illness that has no cure. It would scare the thickest-skinned adult, let alone a child between 4 and 18 years old. The charity hopes to show these children that although life can be cruel, there are times when good things can also happen. This can often give them the incentive to try and fight on and to add precious extra time to their young lives.
   Dial-a-Dream can only complete this work by raising the money from kind Samaritans such as Stuart and the Vodafone mobile phone organisation. It was Stuart who went out of his way to get his company to donate £4000, the main bulk of the donation going towards sending a 13 year-old young lady from Bromley, suffering with cystic fibrosis, to Disney World in Orlando, Florida.