MY JOURNEY

Ravi won in the community category for his work in the brain tumour community and was so excited to collect his awards at The House of Commons in London. He met 50 of the other amazing winners on the night from all around the world.

What a perfect summer experience, singing at the amazing Elderflower Fields Festival with the Dream Team! The buckets were out again and we raised lots of vital funds for The Brain Tumour Charity and brainstrust. Thank you to everyone who came and supported us!

We were over the moon to be asked to perform at Brighton Fringe Festival. This was the Dream Team’s first full gig length performance so we had lots of new songs to learn. Laine Brewery also kindly produced a charity beer to raise extra funds for Ravi’s Dream!

What an incredible experience for the Dream Team! Sydnie Christmas invited us to join her on stage at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge to sing with her for 2 songs, as part of her UK Tour! We had the best night and raised so much money for Ravi’s Dream so thank you to the very…

Ravi was so excited to be invited to join We Can Kick It for one leg of their 40 mile walk between 7 football stadiums in London! Thank you to the Daily Mirror for sharing Ravi’s big walk!

Thank you so much to the amazing Royal Pavilion in Brighton for allowing us to perform in their music room for ITV this Christmas! It was a super special way for us to end what has been an incredible year for us.

Ravi’s Dream Team were delighted to be invited to perform at the amazing Victoria Palace Theatre as part of “An Audience with Phil Dunster” in aid of Young Lives vs Cancer Star of Ted Lasso, Emmy-award nominated Phil Dunster, swapped the small screen for the West End stage, bringing his own show to town – for a…

Ravi was over the moon to be invited to be a backstage presenter at the 2024 Pride of Britain Awards. His heart was stolen by the amazing Florrie and they have already started planning some exciting 2025 projects together!

  Ravi’s Dream Team were honoured to be invited to perform at the  John King Brain Tumour Foundation Gala 2024 at the Dorchester in London. The night raised £140,00 which meant the foundation now had the funds to purchase the Stealth Autoguide machine, a vital tool that will make a difference in the lives of…

Ravi was overwhelmed to be awarded a British Citizen Youth Award for his work raising awareness and funds for brain tumours.

Ravi put together a choir of 50 amazing individuals including other children with brain tumours, medical professionals who have supported him in his journey, staff from his school and family and friends, to perform on Britain’s Got Talent. The group received a golden buzzer from Alesha Dixon and went straight through to the semi-finals. In…

What a year it’s been! Just over a year since he released his charity video he has raised over 100k for @thebraintumourcharity and @brainstrustuk ! Thank you to EVERYONE who has helped as we couldn’t have done it without you.

Ravi and Maya were invited by the FA to be mascots for the Lionesses for their match against The Netherlands at Wembley. It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience and they had the best time!

As part of Ravi’s raising awareness and fundraising, Ravi put on a fashion show featuring 20 children from the brain tumour community. They were modelling clothes that were included in a big online prize draw! The show was held at the amazing Studio Society in London. Photography @nigelrglasgow, @stevebrightstudio and @nigelbuckner Key makeup Artist @emilielouizides…

Check out the fascinating discussionGbenga and Bethan we had with Nigel Clarke for the Dadvengers official podcast. https://dadvengers.com/dadvengers-podcast-episode-37-olugbenga-adelekan/

One of our family’s favourite podcasts used an opening we recorded for them for their episode! It was fantastic to share Ravi’s stories with their listeners

As part of Ravi’s fundraising for The Brain Tumour Charity and brainstrust, Ravi has created an amazing online prize draw with over 200 prizes including items from Coldplay, Lionesses, Jimmy Choo and many many more!!

Ravi, Maya and Gbenga popped onto the Good Morning Britain Sofa to talk about the Pride of Britain awards and Ravi’s next crazy plan!

Wow! What an evening Pride of Britain was! Here are some photos from the night! Massive thank you to NUFC for their involvement in breaking the news to Ravi, and the Lionesses for presenting Ravi with his award!

Ravi is a massive fan of Ashley Banjo ‘s books, Maya is obsessed with Carol vorders because of The Maths Factor and Ravi does her maths books for some relaxing fun. Was AMAZING to meet the other winners who are so utterly incredible.

Amazing news! Ravi has won a Child of Courage award at the Pride of Britain ! The awards will be broadcast on Thursday at 8pm on ITV

Ravi’s fundraising platform is moving! From today we will be moving Ravi’s fundraising platform to Givewheel . This enables us to: *collect gift aid *host individual events to raise money towards Ravi’s Dream *get the money to the two charities faster Fancy doing a bake sale for Ravi’s Dream, or planning on getting sponsorship for…

Ravi was delighted to be asked to be in The Brain Tumour Charties BBC Lifeline Appeal to help raise vital funds for one of how two charities! Check out the video!

Video of the award ceremony Ravi Adelekan was over the moon to receive the Gold Award at The Child of Sussex 2023 Awards, organised by More Radio. The incredibly inspiring ceremony was held on Friday 30th June at East Sussex School of Circus Arts, in the middle of the Sussex countryside. As well as the…

On June 11th, Worthing FC hosted a day of football at their 3000-capacity ground in support of Ravi’s Dream. There was an brilliant Under 8’s girls and boys tournaments, followed by a mixed-gender adult match. Some epic photos of the adult match by Emma Louise Ravi’s ‘Dream Team’ featured amongst others: Romy Madley Croft (The…

Ravi and Gbenga had an early morning chat with More Radio about the upcoming charity football match and his fundraising so far!

On the 6th of March Ravi had the second of three planned operations to help his facial Palsy at the Queen Victoria Hospital. It involved taking a nerve graft from his leg and moving it into his upper lip. If successful, it will encourage new nerve growth and help bring movement back to the left…

One of Richard Boll’s gorgeous photos from the video shoot for ‘A Million Dreams’ was used next to an explainer article about brain tumours.

Ravi is a huge fan of Newcastle United. When he was interviewed on ITV’s This Morning they surprised us by announcing that they had arranged for him to be a mascot at St James’ Park! Talk about dreams coming true- kicking a ball with Miguel Almiron!

Ravi is a huge fan of Newcastle United. When he was interviewed on ITV’s This Morning they surprised us by announcing that they had arranged for him to be a mascot at St James’ Park! Talk about dreams coming true- kicking a ball with Miguel Almiron!

Ravi’s Grandparent’s local paper, The Henley Standard, came to our event at The House of Commons.

Our local Soho House, Brighton Beach House, offered us the chance to tell Ravi’s story and how the video came about. It was a special night in our local community. Photographer: Xavier Clarke

BBC South East ran a followup segment on Ravi and his story, touching on his events at Soho House in Brighton and The House of Commons in London.

As hard core 6music listeners, it was very special to appear on Lauren Laverne’s radio show. Ravi and his dad spoke to Lauren over Zoom and picked a playlist of songs that have meant a lot to us since Ravi’s diagnosis.

Where better to launch your Dream Week campaign than at The House of Commons! MP Sam Tarry kindly arranged for us to be able to hold a launch party where the room was packed with friends, supporters, MPs and even some celebrities! We had a chance to hear from two schools who were taking part…

The wonderfully positive Rooftop News shared Ravi’s story. Download

Ravi had the first of three operations on his face this week. His brain tumour has caused facial palsy on the left side of his face. One of the main challenges has been that his left eye doesn’t close properly and has reduced sensation so Ravi doesn’t really blink when he gets grit or dryness…

Ravi’s mum Bethan grew up in Henley so it was so exciting to have BBC Berkshire covering Ravi’s story!

One of the incredible things the amazing AIP managed to arrange for Ravi’s campaign was an advert on Sky TV!!!

With help from AIP and our two charities, we have managed to get so much amazing press coverage! Here are some images of some of the places that have covered Ravi’s story

Whilst on holiday in Iceland, Ravi and his dad had a whale of a time chatting to Adam Buxton via Zoom for his wonderful podcast.

Always lovely to get some support from the music industry! Thank you CMU for covering the song and Ravi’s story Click here to view article

The perfect way to kick of Ravi’s Dream – appearing on ITV’s The Morning! Whilst Ravi was a little tired from his late night at the Launch party, he still managed to charm Dermot, Alison and Carol!

Our community are the power behind everything we have achieved and they helped to pull together this incredible launch party at the amazing Spire in Brighton for our friends, supporters and local community where we showed the video for the first time! We also had a charity raffle and musical performances from Al Start and…

Watch here for ITV Meridian’s coverage of Ravi’s story!

BBC Breakfast and BBC South East ran Ravi’s story!