If you could have one wish, what would it be? For seriously ill children this is a fun but hard choice! The wishes granted by Starlight are very varied and have included wishes: for a laptop, for an electric guitar, to go on a family holiday to Tenerife, to swim with dolphins, to meet the players at Liverpool FC, to be a pop star for the day - even to go to a worldwide wrestling match!

Starlight also granted the wish of four year old Chloe, who suffers from heart disease. Her wish was to have tea with the princesses at Disneyland. Starlight organised for a special meeting with her favourite princess called Belle. Chloe's mum said,

Whatever the wish, Blockbuster is delighted to help Starlight to grant it. Thank you for your support.

For ill children, fun and laughter can be the best medicine possible. Starlight's Entertainment Programme provides just this, helping to distract seriously ill children in hospitals and hospices throughout the UK. Each year, over 500,000 hospitalised children are entertained with Starlight Fun Centres, Starlight's laughter-filled parties and pantomimes, Starlight Distraction Boxes and many families benefit from a Starlight Outing.

Starlight Fun Centres are mobile entertainment units on which children can watch films and play games.

Thanks the support of Blockbuster's customers, Starlight has nearly achieved its aim of putting one Starlight Fun Centre in every hospital and hospice in the UK.

Feedback from parents of hospitalised children and hospital staff highlights the effectiveness of the Starlight Fun Centre. As one mum said: "The hospital's Starlight Fun Centre is wheeled from bed to bed in the children's ward. It is constantly in use and certainly the most effective post operative relief available, bringing more smiles and drying more eyes than any medicine on offer".

Starlight Distraction Boxes take the magic of Starlight to sick children in their homes as well as in hospitals and hospices. Each fun-coloured box contains 40 games, toys and puzzles, which help make unpleasant treatments less traumatic. As explained by a Theatre Sister at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, it reduces the child's fear: "The children get so distracted that they are only reminded of the purpose of their visit when the anaesthetist interrupts their fun."

With the support of Blockbuster and its customers, Starlight hopes to distribute 5,000 Starlight Distraction Boxes this year. Blockbuster have pledged to distribute these Starlight Distraction Boxes across the UK saving Starlight thousands of pounds.

In July 2005 at the Business in the Community Awards, Blockbuster UK was presented with the Award for Excellence in Cause Related Marketing for its work with the Starlight Children's Foundation.

As part of the judging process Blockbuster was also re-presented with the Big Tick accreditation (first received in 2004), recognising its impressive ongoing commitment to the Starlight Children's Foundation and the company's positive role in society.