The Dream Factory

Hello, my name is Umair, and I joined the Redbridge Youth Action Team in September 2009. Although the reason for this post isn't about me joining the YAT, it's about the meeting that I had with the great charity called The Dream Factory.

The Dream Factory is a charity dedicated to making dreams of 3-25 year olds with life threatening conditions, or severe disabilities, come true.

So today at 11 o'clock, how ever early that may have been for me, I went and met with Avril Mills, the founder of this charity. She told me that she created this charity after her 9 year old son was diagnosed with Leukemia. Her son was also a huge Eastenders fan so she arranged for him to meet the cast of the popular British soap. This then inspired her to continue making peoples dreams come true, and thats how her charity began.

Now as a YAT member, we enjoy helping the community, and when we heard about the fantastic job this charity does, we knew straight off the bat we wanted to do something for them.

Which leads me nicely back on to our meeting with Avril today. We discussed different ideas on what we wanted to do, but one idea that kept popping up was a sponsored walk in fancy dress/ pyjamas within the Borough of Redbridge. Now, as we are quite young and wacky, we decided this would probably be the best thing for uys to do.

So as a team we've decided to carry out this little event during the Easter holidays, so that as many young people can partake in this walk, and enjoy helping out a charity.

I'll keep you updated as to what the specifics for this event will be, so that if you do see any of us, you'll know we're not a bunch of crazy hooligans walking about in pyjamas/fancy dress just for the fun of it.

We're doing it for the kids...