News release

Last chance to join the Great British Ghost Hunt

Edinburgh venue sold out but spaces still available for the RSS Discovery in Dundee

Make-A-Wish Foundation UK has a final few places remaining for the first ever Great British Ghost Hunt, taking place on Saturday 15 December 2007 in aid of the leading wishgranting charity which grants wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening illnesses.

Spaces have been going fast for this unique and hair-raising event in which participants will join experienced mediums and clairvoyants at 15 reputedly haunted locations across the country, where they will have the chance to use authentic ghost hunting and psychic equipment to track down ghostly activity. Results from each location will be entered into a competition to battle it out for the title of UK’s Most Haunted Venue 2007.

Ghost hunts taking place in Scotland will be held at the RSS Discovery in Dundee, which sailed to Antarctica with Captain Scott and is said to be haunted by the footsteps of a young sailor, and the eerie Niddery Street Vaults in Edinburgh. Spaces have already sold out for the Edinburgh ghost hunt, but some are still available for the RSS Discovery, Dundee.

The event is being organised in conjunction with ghost hunting specialists, Fright Nights and all money raised will go towards granting more magical wishes for children and young people with life-threatening illnesses.

For more information about The Great British Ghost Hunt, or to snap one of the remaining spaces, please contact Amanda Hillhouse, Scotland Regional Manager at Make-A-Wish, on 0141 889 0220 or email amanda.hillhouse@makeawish.org.uk

Make-A-Wish is currently celebrating its 21st anniversary year. Since 1986 Make-A-Wish has granted over 4,500 wishes and aims to grant its 5,000th wish by the end of the 21st year.

For further information about Make-A-Wish, or to make a donation, go to www.make-a-wish.org.uk

3 December 2007

1. Please note that Make-A-Wish does not use phrases such as ‘terminally ill’ or similar phrases, in order to respect the sensitive nature of life-threatening illnesses and what they mean to children and young people and their families. We would ask that this approach is followed and that the term ‘life-threatening illnesses’ is used in material for publication.

3. Make-A-Wish grants magical wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening illnesses. The charity was founded in the UK in 1986.