2024-10-31-accounts

Annual Report & Accounts ; 7 # a J for year ending wee > 7 = 31st October 2024

Bare Qe erSs er . s SR Registered Charity No: 1036069 Scottish Charity No: SCO43332

CEO’s Report for 2024

We are very proud to say that Dream Holidays 2024 was our 30[th] year of helping children with Cystic Fibrosis and their families with a much needed respite holiday. We managed to send 151 families away on a respite holiday and around 20 fun days out. This is something new we trialled this year for families who can’t, for whatever reason, take a full

holiday, they can now have a day out at places like Thorpe Park, Alton Towers, London Attractions etc.

We have received so many letters, cards, emails and phone calls, both from the families and also the hospitals who have referred them to us, praising our work over the years and this has spurred us on to help many more families. Our holidays all take place in our beautiful Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

As you will know, Covid hit us, and every Charity very hard and our funds are still recovering from this. However, 2024 has shown us that things are now improving and our funds are now creeping up towards our pre-Covid amounts.

Because Dream Holidays staff all work from our own homes, our overheads are kept quite low. We are still working with 1 full time member of staff and 3 who work part time. We are looking forward to arranging next year’s holidays with great enthusiasm.

Elaine Pearce Chief Executive Officer

Last year we were thrilled to reach our 30th anniversary of helping CF families. We began the year eager to help as many families as we could as a way of celebrating this milestone. Unfortunately, even though our finances have started to recover back to Pre Pandemic levels, we are seeing a huge increase in prices, resulting in our help not reaching as many families as we would have liked.

In the 30 years of helping CF families with respite breaks, we have seen treatments and care evolve incredibly. There remains no cure for CF but through medical advances the expected average age of a CF sufferer has now increased to 53 years. To achieve this is not easy and it is a constant battle. Our aim is to help at the grass roots level and show these families we care and give them some easement in the form of a holiday together.

Once again, in the winter I made some trips to hospitals, this time in the south west to speak to some of the CF nurses and social workers. We want to ensure our help is offered to any CF family struggling and to do this we need every CF children’s unit in the UK to be aware of us. (We currently receive referrals from over 80 clinics across the UK.)

One of the regular questions I am asked when seeking funding, is how do you collect feedback on your work. For the last 30 year we have requested this is the form of photos and postcards from the families. These usually speak for themselves as we receive lots of smiley, happy family moments captured.

But for a new way of collating feedback, this year we have started to ask the hospital teams who send the initial referrals what their thoughts are on the effects a respite break has had on the families. We are eager to not add too much extra work for the hospitals so we have asked for this feedback as an annual report for all the families they have referred that year.

Please find a selection of these reports overleaf…

Amy Chippendale-Johnson

(Administrator and Fundraiser)

As a team at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, we see the difference a break can make to families we work with.

Many would not be able to afford a trip away as priorities alter and best laid plans are put aside to care. Many of our parents have to reconsider career paths, jobs, training etc when CF becomes part of their family and holidays are sadly way down the list.

The breaks CF Dream holidays provide are Invaluable, they allow normality to reside for a time and also provide non affected siblings the chance to enjoy quality time and make memories with their family too.

CF team Social Worker

Birmingham Children’s Hospital

A holiday has lots of benefits- we know that ourselves - the anticipation & excitement even!

For a child with CF to have fun with their family, parents to see their children having fun, a possible break from working so hard, siblings that often appear to be in the background & the memories made cannot be underestimated.

A large percentage of our patients live with 1 parent only (research shows high stress of having a child with a long-term health condition can attribute to this), some not having contact with the other parent. Financially, these families struggle especially with cost of living rising so a holiday really is an extra that these families would not be able to enjoy if it wasn’t for this.

Cystic Fibrosis Specialist Nurse Northampton General Hospital

Hospital Reports 2024

The families I refer are often families that would not normally have the funding for a holiday and have often not had a holiday for a long time. They are families that often have difficulties socially and would not have the money or ability to prioritise a holiday.

I feel that quality family time is very important for our families that are stuck to daily routines and life can be quite monotonous.

Holidays I feel are so important for all families and children but when they have to deal with a chronic illness even more so, holidays are a happy time and a time away from the normal and mundane.

As a nurse specialist with CF, I really appreciate this charity facility to be able to offer my patients/family a holiday who normally would not have one. It feels nice to do something pleasant and fun.

Cystic Fibrosis Nurse Specialist

Royal Manchester Children's Hospital

The children we refer may have been having a difficult time with their CF or for other reasons or may not be able to go on a holiday otherwise. Our families have had lovely holidays including to the Isle of Wight and Newquay and all of them come back full of energy and saying what a wonderful time they have had. It is great for them to have good family time together enjoying new experiences. Cystic Fibrosis Nurse Specialist Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital Cystic Fibrosis Nurse Specialist Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital

A selection of the families we helped in 2024

Child's Name	From	Went to	Child's Name	From	Went to
Henry	Yorkshire	London	Mason	Stafordshire	Trecco bayParkdean
Sidney	Northampton	Center Parcs,Woburn	Leylan	Cumbria	Haven - Marton Mere
Marcus	North Tyneside	Centre Parcs,Sherwood Forest	Matlda	Northamptonshire	Isle of Wight
William	Hampshire	Center Parcs - Longleat forest	Jace	Tyne and Wear	Haggerston Castle
Cai	York	Winfell forest Centerparcs	Finley	Northumberland	Beach retreats
Elizabeth	Newcastle upn Tyne	Center Parcs,Winfell forest	Jaiden	Wales	HolidayCotages,Fife
Mohammed	Notngham	Centre Parcs Sherwood Forest	Hayden	West Sussex	Isle of Wight
Tristan Scot	Holmfrth	Bike and Boot Inns	Kobi	Notnghamshire	Butlins - Skegness
Matlda	Merseyside	Houlbourne Devon Bay	Millie	Manchester	Haven - Presthaven
Summer	Yorkshire	Primrose valleyHaven	Ava & Chase	Buckinghamshire	Isle of Wight
Layla	Manchester	Isle of Wight	Dylan - Jak	West Midlands	Stanwix HolidayPark
Jenson	Durham	Lobster Pot Cotage,Grimsby	Elsie	Heywood	RibbyHall Village
Lily	Herefordshire	Center Parcs - Longleat Forrest	Charlote	Greater London	Haven - Combe
Edward	Derbyshire	St Annes Beach Apartments	Harper - Rose	Northamptonshire	Alton Towers
Clayton	Worcestershire	Monkeytree holiday park	George	Co Durham	St Ives HolidayVillage
John	Northumberland	Tile Sheds Barn Cotage,Whalton	Harry	West Midlands	Copperhouse St Erth
James	Ipswich	Hoseasons Summerfelds	Ashleigh	Wolverhampton	Haven - Church Farm
Esmae	Retoerd	Haven,Seashore	Amelia	Notnghamshire	Seton Sands Haven
Freya	Sufolk	Holidaycotages -Whitby	Diana	Cornwall	Tummel ValleyParkdean
Victoria	Sufolk	Easter Dalziel Farm Cotage	Joel	West Sussex	Isle of Wight
Chester	Northumberland	Haven - Haggerston Castle	Nancy	North Yorkshire	Parkdean - Clayton Bay
Leah	Kent	Parkdean -greatyarmouth	Bella	Manchester	Hendra HolidayPark
Imaan & Sabah	West Midlands	Haven - Burnham on sea	Archie	Sufolk	Haven - Seashores
Charlie	Warwickshire	Hoseasons - Piran Meadows	Zack	Buckinghamshire	Aspects holidays Cornwall
Brody	Lincolnshire	Woolacombe BayHolidayPark	Danielle	West Midlands	Drayton Manor
Max	Scotland	Hoseasons - HuntersQuay	Tyler	Stafordshire	Haven - Presthaven
Talia may	Runcorn	Centre Parcs - Sherwood Forest	Kobi	Scotland	Haven - Matron Mere
Cerys	East Sussex	Green Hill Farm HolidayVillage	Ava & Mia	Bangor	Drumhoney
Beau	Cornwall	centreparcs - Longleat forest	Zachary	West Midlands	Haven - Presthaven
Nathaniel	Co Durham	Center Parcs - Winfell Forrest	Alessa & Lewis	Strlingshire	Haven - CraigTara
Shayan & Rohaan	Scotland	Mercure BarnsleyTankersleyManor	Kenneth	West Yorkshire	Bosinver HolidayCotages
Kate	N. Ireland	Crowne Plaza Hotels Belfast	Connor	Scotland	Haven - CraigTara
Mohammad & Anaya	West Yorkshire	Alton Towers Cbeebies Land	Freddie	Scotland	Aviemore Hotel
Nevaeh	South Yorkshire	Hoseasons - Sherwood Forest	Layla-Mai	Lancashire	Lords LeapFarm Cotage
Baker	Essex	Center Parcs - Elveden Forrest	Finley	Manchester	Isle of Wight
Shiloh	Manchester	Haven - Marton Mere	Megan	Lincolnshire	Haven - Caister on Sea
Leon	Tyne and Wear	Butlins - Skegness	Kristal & Amber	West Midlands	Isle of Wight
Declan	Leicestershire	Monkeytree holiday park	Ruby	York	Hendra HolidayPark
Gearge & Alex	Wolverhampton	Breakers Cotage,Devon	Annabelle	Gloucestershire	Shorefeld HolidayPark
Jupiter Reece	Leicester	Parkdean - southview	Macyand Vinnie	Kent	Haven - The Orchards
Oliver	Gloucestershire	Haven - Riviere Sands	Annabelle	Bristol	Gwel an Mor HolidayPark
Teddy,Odin,Freddie	Kent	Park Holidays - Leysdown	Mazigh	East Sussex	Kilbirnie Hotel Newquay
Hallie	Leicestershire	Kestrel Cotage - Highlands	Lillie-Jade	Rotherham	RustyCotages Whitby
Emily	Derbyshire	KimberleyHouse,Cornwall	Edward	Bradford	Hoseasons - FileyBay
Ruby	N. Ireland	Mullans Bay,Ireland	Archie	Kent	Parkdean - Nodes Point
Niamh	Scotland	Forest Holidays,Scotland	Danielle	West Midlands	Daytrips
Ava	Sufolk	Marten Mere Haven	Nehna	West Midlands	Belton Woods Hotel
Samantha	Lincolnshire	Haven - Primrose Valley	Jack	Greater London	Poters Resorts -Norfolk
Devon	Oxfordshire	Haven - Devon Clifs	Keeley	Co Durham	Hoseasons - Landal Lakes
Lucy	Stafordshire	HemsbyBeach HolidayPark	Jacob	Leicester	Haven Wild Ducks
Maleeha & Umaima	West Midlands	Cotage,Weston Super Mare	Danny	Sussex	Butlins,Bognor Regis
Carrie Ann	Hertordshire	Haven - Seashores	Alfe	Plymouth	Butlins - Minehead
Reagan	Durham	Hoseasons - Brokerswood	Winter	CountyDurham	Skegness Butlins
Finlay	West Midlands	Bishops rock lizard lighthouse	Dennis	Gloucestershire	Trenython Manor
Declan	Derbyshire	Sunnymede caravanpark	Seth	West Midlands	Isle of Wight
Arthur	Essex	Meadow Cotage,Sufolk	Mylah	Berkshire	Haven - Golden Sands
Haleema	Birmingham	Parkdean - Torquay	Lucy	Cornwall	Butlins - Bogner Regis
Phoebe	West Sussex	Isle of Wight	Millie-Mai	Derbyshire	Parkdean - Trecco Bay
Mathew	Cornwall	Butlins,Minehead	Warwick	West Midlands	Haven - Marton Mere
Ivy	West Sussex	Beach Crof - Pembroke Dock	Ethan	Darlington	Butlins - Skegness
Oliwia	Co Durham	Kielder Waterside HolidayPark	Cassie-Anne	Scotland	Flamingo land
Daisy	Deeside	Woolcoombe BayHolidayPark	Lyla	Leicestershire	Isle of Wight
Rhys	Northumberland	Haven - Marton Mere	Harrison	N. Yorkshire	Flamingo land
Ariana	Derbyshire	Parkdean - NewquayResort	Kyle	Manchester	Gulivers World

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A small selection
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Contact us

EMAIL – [e-mail]

FINANCE – [e-mail] ADMIN / FUNDRAISER—[e-mail]

Our Head Office address: -

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4 Norton Cottages
Tongue End
Spalding
PE11 3JL
TEL:- 01775 670399
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Registered charity No: 1036069 Scottish charity No. SC043332

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