BGT stars Ravi’s Dream achieve huge fundraising boost after Alesha Dixon is reduced to tears and 1000s of viewers donate
A CHOIR who appeared on Britain’s Got Talent over the weekend has raised over £100k for charity already as thousands of viewers donated to their cause.
Ravi’s Dream, fronted by Ravi Adelekan, reduced Alesha Dixon and Amanda Holden to tears, with their performance of A Million Dreams.
The brave eight year old, who has a brain tumour, landed the coveted Golden Buzzer and has already vowed to give the £250,000 prize to charity if he wins.
Alesha exclaimed: “The golden buzzer is such a personal thing and I always say I can only press it when it feels right and you’re such a remarkable young man.”
Ravi was approached by BGT bosses who saw his efforts to raise funds for Brainstrust and The Brain Tumour Charity.
A previous charity video of him singing the hit song featured cameos from Paloma Faith, Coldplay and Damon Albarn.
Following his appearance on the show, his fundraising efforts shot up and he is currently at £107,602.38.
Ravi was just six when he discovered that he had a benign tumour in his brain stem.
Despite 10 hours of surgery, doctors were not able to remove the whole tumour, and Ravi lives with its effects every day and he is determined to raise money to help make life better for people in the same situation as him.
Speaking after his performance, Ravi told The Sun: “It was surreal. I didn’t see Alesha press her golden buzzer because we were bowing!
“There was all this confetti, but it took all of our brains a long time to draw the connection to the buzzer.
“I didn’t quite know what to say. In the moment it felt different like they (the judges) believed in what we were trying to do.
“If we won it would help us reach our fund-raising goal, but also winning would just bring so much more awareness of brain tumours.”
Mum Bethan, 42, from Brighton, said: “Ravi has always loved music but can’t use half his face, which affects his singing, plus he can’t hear out his left side.
“They say it takes a village to raise a child but it probably takes a city to support you through something as traumatic as this.
“We looked at all the incredible humans who’ve helped us and the choir is a microcosm of that. Ravi falls over a lot and can’t walk in a straight line but he gets on with it.
“The best-case scenario is the tumour stays stable, and hopefully this is all he will have to deal with.”
Donate to Ravi’s charities at ravisdream.com
