Wheels for Wishes

07/11/2026

🎅🎄 IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS! 🎄🎅

🎁✨ We're absolutely delighted to announce that Outsider Art Tattoo Studio Burton will be supporting our 2026 Santa Bike Christmas Toy Run! 🏍️🎅
❤️ A huge THANK YOU to them for getting involved and helping us spread a little Christmas magic! ✨

🎄 Over the coming days, we'll be introducing more of the wonderful local businesses who are supporting us this year, so keep your eyes peeled! 👀🎁
We'll be sharing details of where you can drop off NEW, UNWRAPPED TOYS to help bring smiles, happiness and a little extra Christmas magic to children and families who need it most. ❤️🎅

🏪 ARE YOU A LOCAL BUSINESS?
Would you like to get involved and help us spread a little Christmas magic, either this year or in the future? 🎄✨
We'd absolutely LOVE to hear from you! Whether you'd like to support this year's Toy Run or be part of something special in the years to come, please get in touch with our page. ❤️

🎁 EVERYONE CAN HELP SPREAD A LITTLE CHRISTMAS MAGIC! 🎁
You don't have to be a business to make a difference! ❤️ Here's how you can help:
✨ Share this post with your friends and family!✨ Keep following our page for more announcements and donation locations!
✨ Visit our event page for more information!

❤️ Together, with , our amazing local businesses and our wonderful community, we can help make Christmas a little brighter for those who need it most. 🎄🎁
Let's spread some Christmas magic together! 🎅🏍️❤️
Caroline xx

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572526274422 (Wheels for Wishes )
https://www.facebook.com/burtontree (Dereks Tree Burton on Trent)
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089480568106 (Elysium Memorial Foundation)
https://www.facebook.com/santabike2020 (Santa Bike)

07/11/2026

🎅🎄 IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS! 🎄🎅

🎁✨ We're absolutely delighted to announce that The Waterloo Inn will be supporting our 2026 Santa Bike Christmas Toy Run! 🏍️🎅
❤️ A huge THANK YOU to them for getting involved and helping us spread a little Christmas magic! ✨

🎄 Over the coming days, we'll be introducing more of the wonderful local businesses who are supporting us this year, so keep your eyes peeled! 👀🎁
We'll be sharing details of where you can drop off NEW, UNWRAPPED TOYS to help bring smiles, happiness and a little extra Christmas magic to children and families who need it most. ❤️🎅

🏪 ARE YOU A LOCAL BUSINESS?
Would you like to get involved and help us spread a little Christmas magic, either this year or in the future? 🎄✨
We'd absolutely LOVE to hear from you! Whether you'd like to support this year's Toy Run or be part of something special in the years to come, please get in touch with our page. ❤️

🎁 EVERYONE CAN HELP SPREAD A LITTLE CHRISTMAS MAGIC! 🎁
You don't have to be a business to make a difference! ❤️ Here's how you can help:
✨ Share this post with your friends and family!✨ Keep following our page for more announcements and donation locations!
✨ Visit our event page for more information!

❤️ Together, with Wheels for Wishes, our amazing local businesses and our wonderful community, we can help make Christmas a little brighter for those who need it most. 🎄🎁
Let's spread some Christmas magic together! 🎅🏍️❤️
Caroline xx

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572526274422 (Wheels for Wishes )
https://www.facebook.com/burtontree (Dereks Tree Burton on Trent)
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089480568106 (Elysium Memorial Foundation)
https://www.facebook.com/santabike2020 (Santa Bike)

07/11/2026

It doesn’t seem like 5 minutes ago that we met our Lucy.

We are so lucky to have you with us.

Congratulations on passing your MOD2 💫

Congratulations to Lucy on passing your MOD2 test with Dave.
Thank you for choosing LDC for all your training.

An even bigger thank you to you for dropping off biscuit packages for both the office and site, we really appreciate it🍪♥

01/11/2026

🤫🏍️ OPERATION: SURPRISE KELLY & GARY! 🏍️🤫

Well… where do we even begin with this one?! 😂🤣

If anyone thinks organising a surprise is easy, try organising one for two people who are usually the ones organising EVERYTHING for EVERYONE ELSE! 🤦‍♀️😂

Kelly and Gary are genuinely two of the most thoughtful, selfless and caring people you could ever meet. ❤️ They created Wheels For Wishes and turned it into so much more than a group… they created a FAMILY. 🏍️❤️ Without these two, none of it would exist, and so many people would have missed out on the kindness, love and memories they’ve helped create.

But this time, it was THEIR turn! 🥹❤️

It all started when Arnold came to me with an idea… delivered in his own special brand of broken English! 😂🤣 Somehow, between the hand gestures, the explanations and a bit of guesswork, I worked out that he wanted to get Kelly and Gary special helmets to show them just how much they mean to us. 🪖❤️

And so… OPERATION SECRET SQUIRREL was born! 🐿️🤫

A secret group was created, plans were made, messages were flying about, and we all suddenly became professional secret agents! 🕵️‍♀️😂

Well, we tried to be professional!

Weeks of organising, stressing, plotting and planning followed. There were probably enough messages to crash Facebook, enough nerves to fill a hospital waiting room, and enough overthinking to qualify us all for a degree in surprise management! 🤣🤦‍♀️

And then came the BIGGEST challenge of all…

ACTUALLY GETTING KELLY AND GARY TO BE IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME WITHOUT MAKING THEM SUSPICIOUS! 😂😂😂

Honestly, trying to organise a surprise for these two was harder than organising a full-blown bike rally! 🏍️🤣 Every time we thought we'd cracked it, something else came along to test our sanity!

But we did it! ❤️🥹

Seeing the surprise come together and knowing it was all for two people who spend so much of their time thinking about everyone else made every single bit of stress worthwhile.

Kelly and Gary, you spend so much time putting smiles on other people's faces, showing up for people when they need it most, and making everyone feel like they belong. You might have created Wheels For Wishes, but you've created something much bigger than yourselves. You've given people a family, a place to belong and the chance to make a real difference. ❤️🏍️

You deserve to feel just as loved and appreciated as you make everyone else feel. ❤️

And Arnold… your idea started all of this, and we're so glad we could help make your wish happen! 🥹❤️

Thank you to everyone who helped keep the secret, contributed, organised, panicked, distracted, plotted and generally joined in with our madness! 😂🤫

Now that it's over, we can finally relax… until the next secret mission comes along! 👀🤣

NO ONE RIDES ALONE… AND APPARENTLY, NO ONE CAN KEEP A SECRET WITHOUT A GROUP CHAT! 😂🏍️❤️

31/10/2026

Tonight, we ride with thanks from Karrie Seymour following her horrific motorcycle accident.

We will be showing our gratitude to our emergency services leaving The Grove Stapenhill at 17:00. All welcome to join us for HALLOWHEELS 2026 🎃 No Tricks. Just Treats. A Halloween Ride Giving Back To Our Emergency Services 🫶🏼

27/10/2026

Our lovely Gary West and Arnold Ádám have been to deliver some Halloween goodies to the wonderful folk at Midlands Air Ambulance Charity 🎃👻🍬🍪 as a big thank you for all that they do 🫶🏻💜😊

HALLOWHEELS 2026 🎃 No Tricks. Just Treats. A Halloween Ride Giving Back To Our Emergency Services

🎁 A huge thank you to Gary West and the Wheels for Wishes team!

We’re so grateful to have received five huge boxes of goodies for our clinical and charity teams, kindly donated as a thank you for all that Midlands Air Ambulance Charity does ❤️🚁

This thoughtful gesture means a lot, and we know our teams will certainly enjoy the goodies!

Thank you, Gary and the whole Wheels for Wishes team, for thinking of us and for your wonderful generosity 💛

26/10/2026

A huge thank you to The Olde Royal Oak Burton and The Banx Pub Group for the wonderful donation towards our HALLOWHEELS 2026 🎃 No Tricks. Just Treats. A Halloween Ride Giving Back To Our Emergency Services, we appreciate your continued support 😊💜🫶🏻

24/10/2026

We asked for crisps for our HALLOWHEELS 2026 🎃 No Tricks. Just Treats. A Halloween Ride Giving Back To Our Emergency Services event and KP snacks and Jaffa Parkyn delivered!

A massive massive thank you for your very generous donations. They are going to make lots of people very happy 🫶🏼