Taylormania is proud to be partnering with the incredible Make-A-Wish Foundation to help bring joy to children living with critical illnesses. At every show, fans can take part in a special raffle for the chance to win an exclusive meet and greet after the show, plus a limited-edition Taylormania merchandise goody bag. You’ll also find Make-A-Wish donation buckets at the exits as you leave the venue, offering another way to support this amazing cause.
Funds raised will help Make-A-Wish create life-changing experiences for young people across the UK. Together, we can turn music into magic.
At every show you can purchase tickets for £1, from our dedicated girls pre-show, or from our Merch Man, Cam, during the interval, to be entered into our Meet and Greet raffle which is drawn live on stage before our last song. If your ticket is the one selected head to the Merchandise counter after the show and staff will take you to the designated meet and greet area where you get to meet Katy and receive your exclusive merch goody bag!
Funds Raised
August 2025: £3782
Thank you so much to every who has supported, and continues to support our Make a Wish Foundation Partnership at our shows. Take a look below at our Meet & Greet Winners.
After Ella’s dad, Will, noticed a lump above his daughter’s hip bone one weekend, mum Laura called 111 and googled her daughter’s symptoms: “When I googled it, it mentioned a hernia.” On Monday the family were told by Ella’s GP that it was unlikely to be a hernia and were sent to Noah’s Ark hospital. “When we were at the hospital, they asked us a lot of questions that made us think that it was serious but sent us home as it was too late to do an
ultrasound.”
The next day, Ella and her parents received devastating news: “The lady doing the ultrasound said do you want to know what it is? I said yes but took Ella out of the room, so it was just my husband receiving the news. We could just tell by the look on his face when he walked out that it was serious.”
That Friday, less than a week after noticing the lump above her hip bone, Ella had a port fitted and started chemotherapy for a Wilms tumour, a type of cancer found on the kidneys. “If someone said the Friday before that this time next week you’ll be going through this, we would have never believed them,” shared Mum.
Chemotherapy caused Ella’s hair to start to fall out and get matted, prompting Mum to ask Ella if she would want to cut the rest of her hair off: “Obviously there were tears. When we went to the hairdressers she wore a scarf. They took her into a room in the back to cut her hair, to give her some privacy as it can be quite a sensitive thing. But the minute she had it cut off, she walked back into the main room of the hairdressers with no scarf for everyone to see – to have the confidence to do that at just six is amazing.”
From the moment she got ill, bubbly and sociable Ella just wanted to get better so that she could see her best friends at school. “She loves school and loves being at the centre of attention,” said Mum.
Throughout her treatment, the bond Ella shared with her friends grew and grew. As Mum told us, “She actually got closer to some of these friends during treatment! At school they all wore matching head scarves when Ella was losing her hair.”
After chemotherapy to shrink the tumour, Ella was taken into surgery to remove the kidney that the tumour was attached to. As Mum said, “She had the surgery on the Monday. The same week on the Friday she was able to go home! She then received chemotherapy for the next six months.”
It’s now been over a year since Ella’s last chemotherapy and her parents are amazed at the progress their daughter has made: “There are times now where we see her running with her friends and we just pinch myself and think did this journey happen?”
Mum and Dad were initially shocked to learn that Ella was eligible for a wish: “When one of the nurses said Ella could have a wish, I said to my husband ‘but that’s only for terminally ill children.’ The nurse reassured us that Ella was eligible despite not being terminal, then showed us a document with all the things she could do.”
When talking about what she would want for her wish, it was obvious that Ella’s friends would have to be involved. As Mum told us, “All her friends were talking about having pamper parties, so it grew from going shopping and having a pamper party with her friends to being something bigger than what we could have ever imagined!”
On the day of her wish, Ella arrived early at St David’s Shopping Centre in Cardiff and was given some shopping vouchers to use before heading to have their makeovers done in preparation for the show. As Mum said, “She loved shopping and having her makeup done as well!” But the highlight of the day was of course walking the catwalk!
Ella’s wish helped her as she settles back into a life away from hospitals and treatment: “Ella is transitioning back to normal life and that’s as hard a part of the journey as going through the treatment. But there was that wish to focus on and to look forward to. It helped hugely for that
transition, because it says we acknowledge everything that you’ve been through and this is for you. Ella and her friends refer to the fashion show as the best day ever.”
“The kids get so involved in creating their wish. With their conditions, so many decisions get made for these kids, but this is their chance for them to tell us what they want!”
