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MyDish are working with the Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity as part of the Bake it Better campaign to build the biggest collection of children’s recipes to cook for or have fun and bake with children.

The best recipes will be chosen and featured in a special recipe book with proceeds going to the Great Ormond Street Hospital Chairty . It’s all for a good cause and a simple way to raise funds for research into the cause and treatment of childhood cancer. Join up NOW!

It’s really simple to join the Bake it Better group - just click on the link and hit the ‘join group’ button - there is a simple and short registration and then you can add your own recipe to the group. Don’t forget to invite all your friends to help us create the biggest and best collection of children’s recipes. Please tell all your friends and family.

How did we get involved with Gt Ormond Street Hospital?

My Son Oliver was cared for at Gt Ormond Street with a Kidney problem – he was rushed to hospital when he was 10 years old and we stayed in the hospital for a week with Oliver on some pretty serious medicines.  When he was well and came back for a check-up he wanted to give something back to the hospital to say thanks and to help the other children.  So when we started MyDish it was Oliver’s initiative to create the recipe books as a way for people to raise funds for their own charity and today we are working with Gt Ormond Street to create a book of recipes for children.

Here is a guest piece from Oli:

Hey, You probably don’t know who I am, but my name’s Oli and I was a patient at Great Ormond street hospital for quite a while when I was younger because I was diagnosed with neufrotic syndrome, a rare urinary disease.

It was a very hard time in my life as the cure was to put me on steroids so I undoubtedly gained a lot of weight, but all of the staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital made what would otherwise be a terrible experience a reasonably pleasurable one (considering the circumstances).

In my opinion, you can never really appreciate the work which Great Ormond Street Hospital does until you are treated there. I had often been given a sponsorship pack at school which would mean that if I were to colour in a picture, my parents and people I know would give me money to give to Great Ormond Street Hospital, but from this, I just saw it as another charity, oblivious to the lives it saves and people it helps. I would happily hand over my money without a moment’s thought as to where the money was going and what it was to be used for.

For the first month or so of me having neufrotic syndrome, I had very few symptoms but after about a month, I began throwing up repeatedly and this is when my mum first decided to take me to the GP. The doctor asked me for a urine sample and, once she checked it, immediately told me I should be taken to a hospital. I was first taken to Barnet general hospital but was moved to Great Ormond Street very soon as that was where the most knowledgeable person for this disease worked. He started me on my course of steroids and I was out of the hospital within a week.

I did have quite a few relapses of Neufrotic Syndrome, but now, we hope that it has gone away for good. I could definitely not have got through this whole thing without Great Ormond Street and especially without my mum, who was with me through the whole thing. My mum is a very talented chef and is the CEO of mydish.co.uk . Check it out by the way, it’s like a website where you give other people your favourite recipes and I think it’s really cool.

Thank you mum and thank you Great Ormond Street!

Oli Savage