Children's charity that brightens the lives of seriously ill children (3-18) across the UK by granting wishes and providing ongoing support within hospitals
Yesterday our amazing ambassador
@NiallOfficial
celebrated his birthday with us 🎉 🎂 Niall shared his birthday cake, took pics & performed some some songs for some very special fans 🎶 He was also reunited with Effy who he met with the rest of
@onedirection
a few years ago 💛
It’s your last chance to WIN the Santa shirt our ambassador
@NiallOfficial
wore at last year’s Jingle Bell Ball 🎅🎄🎁 Donations will support our work to brighten the lives of seriously ill children across the UK. Get
#festive
and enter to
#win
here: 💛
This time last week our lovely ambassador
@NiallOfficial
helped us grant wishes for some of his biggest fans! Thanks Niall for allowing us to come to your soundcheck & hang out in the
@O2academybrix
special VIP room! We had such a brilliant time 💕☀️
#ThrowbackThursday
Look who dropped in last night to make magical
#wishes
happen and support our ‘An Evening with’ event 💛 So thankful to our sensational ambassador
@LiamPayne
for putting such big smiles on our choir’s faces 😊 We can’t be more grateful 🙌🏻✨💛.
Shoutout to our amazing ambassador
@NiallOfficial
for inviting us to tonight’s soundcheck
@O2academybrix
. Thanks for letting our wish children “Fire Away” any question they wanted at you! It’s always a pleasure & never “Too Much To Ask” for you to share your time! Lots of love 💕
Happy Birthday to one of our lovely ambassadors,
@LiamPayne
! Thank you for helping us in brightening lives - we hope you have an incredible day and here's to another year full of sunshine ☀️💛
10. Our final magical memory is an array of photos featuring the boys and their fans.
@onedirection
have made so many of our wish children incredibly happy over the last ten years and we are beyond grateful. Thank you and congratulations
#onedirection10years
💛🎤🌞
Happy Birthday to our incredible ambassador
@MesutOzil1088
! 👏🎉🎂 Over the years, Ozil has given up his time to help us grant wishes for some of our biggest
@Arsenal
fans! ⚽️ Thank you for being a great ambassador Ozil, we hope you had a lovely day! ☀️✨💛
Wishing a huge Happy Birthday to one of our incredible ambassadors,
@NiallOfficial
! We hope your day is fantastic and full of sunshine 🔆 Thank you for being such a fab ambassador and helping us brighten lives - sending lots of love from all of us at Rays of Sunshine 💛✨
We could not be more grateful for our amazing Ambassador
@Harry_Styles
💕☀️Before his concert yesterday at
@TheO2
Harry gave up so much of his time to grant lots of special
#wishes
for our brave and inspiring
#wish
children. Thank you Harry! 💛🎤🎸
We had a wonderful day with our new ambassador
@MesutOzil1088
to celebrate his 30th & our 15th birthdays! Thank you
#Ozil
for being so supportive & making our
#wish
children the happiest
@Arsenal
fans! ⚽️ It’s such a pleasure to welcome you in to the Rays of Sunshine family ☀️💛
1. One of our favourite memories of
@onedirection
features brave Bethany and Gabby who got up to sing for their favourite band at an exclusive meet and greet with some of our wish families. The boys were impressed and so were we!
#onedirection10years
🎤
6. Number six features SELFIES! Bethany and Effie didn’t miss their chance to grab a sunshine selfie with
@onedirection
and what magical moments they captured
#onedirection10years
🤳🤘
2. Seeing double! Number two goes to when the boys customised cut outs of themselves - our favourite is probably Niall’s because of the fancy moustache, what’s yours?
#onedirection10years
👀🌞
9. Number nine features Caitlin & her fab feedback after meeting the boys: "In 2013, I was granted my wish to meet
@onedirection
& it kept me going through the darkest days of my treatment. Rays of Sunshine literally brought some sunshine back into my life."
#onedirection10years
A HUGE Happy Birthday to one of our incredible ambassadors, Leigh-Anne Pinnock
@LittleMix
😁 We are so grateful for the joy she's helped us spread, and we hope Leigh-Anne's day is full of sunshine (and cake!) 🔆🍰
It's not only our birthday but it’s also
@MesutOzil1088
's birthday today & we’re so excited to finally announce him as a Rays of Sunshine Ambassador! Over the years, Ozil has given up time to help us grant wishes for some big
@Arsenal
fans ⚽️
#happybday
& welcome to the family!
5. We couldn’t not include one of the boys with our fabulous Miss Sunshine and some of our volunteers! Fabulous photos and fabulous people
#onedirection10years
#HappyBirthday
to our lovely Rays of Sunshine Ambassador
@NiallOfficial
! Wishing you a very special
#birthday
filled with lots of Sunshine
#love
. We're so grateful to have you as a supporter of our
#charity
☀️ Thanks for always giving up your time to help us grant
#wishes
✨💛
We were so lucky to spend time with our incredible ambassador
@dele
who helped us make this festive season even more magical by granting so many
#wishes
✨💫 🎄You can see from all the smiles that everyone loved their afternoon spent with
#Dele
💛 Thank you 🥰🙌🏻
‘Meeting
@LandoNorris
was obviously the icing on the cake - the children couldn't stop talking about it in the car!'
#F1
fan, Oscar, had his wish granted to have a VIP tour of the
@McLarenF1
Factory🏎️
Thank you,
#McLaren
,
#LandoNorris
& our amazing supporters🌞
When Darcey met Niall ✨
13-year-old Darcey is a huge
@NiallOfficial
fan, and loves listening to his music wherever she is.
She had never been to a concert before, so for her wish we sent her and her mum to watch the singer perform in Birmingham! 🌞
It’s
#ThrowbackThursday
& we’re excited to share a guest blog written by
#wish
child Olivia 💛 This time last year, we granted Olivia’s
#wish
to meet our ambassador
@NiallOfficial
🎤 Check out the latest Days @ Rays blog with her guest entry here: ☀️🎸
To celebrate
#onedirection10years
we will be tweeting our top ten favourite moments from across the years ☀️Keep your eyes peeled throughout the day for some magical memories! 🔟💛
Today’s the day! It’s
#onedirection10years
& we can’t believe it.
@onedirection
have granted hundreds of wishes for us over the years & have been truly wonderful ambassadors for Rays of Sunshine. We’re so excited to celebrate this fab anniversary on our feed throughout today!😎🌞
It was such an honour to meet so many brave and inspiring families at our Rays of Sunshine wish day 💛💛 Thank you
@RaysofSunshine
for the opportunity and for the incredible work that you do x
Last week 6 magical
#wishes
came true when Jamie, Joseph, Lewis, Chloe, Benjamin and Kacie met
@LewisHamilton
😲 🏎 This weekend they attended the
#GrandPrix
and were all able to see Lewis secure the win 🏁
#ThankYou
to everyone at
@MercedesAMGF1
for an unforgettable day 🎉👏
Our AMAZING ambassador
@NiallOfficial
is raffling the T-shirt he wore to last year's Jingle Bell Ball to celebrate our 15th Birthday &
#15YearsOfSunshine
! Help us continue brightening the lives of seriously ill young people 💛 Buy a raffle ticket today! ☀️
Happy Birthday to one of our amazing ambassadors, Perrie Edwards! We hope you've got that
#FridayFeeling
and have an incredible sunshine-filled birthday ☀️💛
@NiallOfficial
Thank you Niall for being such an amazing ambassador for our charity! We couldn't be more grateful for your support 👏 Sending you lots of sunshine love! 💛✨☀️
8. Grateful number 8, here the boys are at an exclusive event where they surprised fans by interrupting a viewing of their film One Direction, This is Us. Watch a short clip here:
#onedirection10years
😍💛
3. For number three we’re throwing it back to 2014 when the boys hosted an exclusive event for Rays of Sunshine, which lots of families got to attend. You can watch a short video of it here:
#onedirection10years
😜🎵
"She's one of my inspirations" 🌞
Amber is a
@BBCDoctorWho
superfan and a budding actress.
For her wish, we organised an extra special afternoon tea with her acting idol:
#JodieWhittaker
!
It was our pleasure to make your
#wish
come true
@its_katieexo
✨💕 and a very special thank you to
@Harry_Styles
for giving up his time before yesterday's London concert
@TheO2
to meet with our brave and inspiring
#wish
children 💛🎤🎸
.
@Harry_Styles
thank you for the best two nights and I can’t thank you enough for taking out time to spend with me and the other kids. & thank you so much
@RaysofSunshine
for organising this, it truly means the world to me✨✨✨
#HarryStylesLiveOnTourLondon
7. For this one, we’ve gone a bit rogue and picked our favourite
@onedirection
GIF 😎 Here it is, do you guys have a favourite?
#onedirection10years
😆☀️
@NiallOfficial
But that wasn't all...
As a long-time Rays of Sunshine Ambassador,
@NiallOfficial
and his team invited Darcey back stage before the show, for the ultimate fan meet-and-greet!
Thank you to Niall and everyone who helped to make Darcey's wish come true 🌞
Christmas has come early!
@NiallOfficial
wants to give you the shirt off his back, all to support
@RaysofSunshine
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