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Grand News Grand News Proudly supporting Bristol Childrens Hospital and St Michaels Special Care Baby Unit Spring 2012 Help us support sick children with cancer and leukaemia at Bristol Children’s Hospital. Our Appeal has been launched to support the creation of a new integrated Children’s Cancer Ward. We need to raise £250,000 to give patients like Nina the best care possible. Read more on page 3... Childrens Cancer Appeal The Grand Descent Abseil • Cots for Tots reaches £1 million! • Our brand new website is here

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Grand NewsGrand NewsProudly supporting Bristol Children’s Hospital

and St Michael’s Special Care Baby Unit

Spring 2012

Help us support sick children with cancer and leukaemia at Bristol Children’sHospital. Our Appeal has been launched to support the creation of a new integratedChildren’s Cancer Ward. We need to raise£250,000 to give patients like Nina thebest care possible.

Read more on page 3...

Children’sCancer Appeal

The Grand Descent Abseil • Cots for Tots reaches £1 million! • Our brand new website is here

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Welcome to the spring issue of Grand News and what an incredible few months it’sbeen here at The Grand Appeal!

The biggest news is of course that our Cots for Tots Appeal has reached the big £1 million target! Thanks to your incredible support we have been able toprovide four new neonatal intensive care cots for the Special Care Baby Unit atSt Michael’s Hospital and build a dedicated family accommodation suite forfamilies of sick and premature babies from all over the South West of Englandand South Wales. But this is not the end for the Cots for Tots Appeal and we stillneed your help to provide vital care for special care babies and their families,read more on pages 4 and 5!

In March, our friends at Aardman invited supporters of The Grand Appeal tothe exclusive premiere of their new animated smash The Pirates! In AnAdventure With Scientists. The film’s director, (and Grand Appeal patron), PeteLord and the film’s star, Hugh Grant, kindly lent their support to The GrandAppeal introducing our special screening and meeting some of the patientsfrom Bristol Children’s Hospital!

Summer is definitely on its way - the days are getting longer, therain is getting lighter (fingers crossed) and we’re gearing up fora fantastic season of fundraising here at The Grand Appeal!

The Grand Descent Abseil returns for another year and this time it will be bigger and better than ever with over 100 intrepid fundraisers taking the ropes to abseil 100ft down BristolChildren’s Hospital on 8th September! Email [email protected] or call 0800 919 649 to book your place but be quick as places go fast. Or how about embarking on your ownoverseas adventure challenge? You could scale Kilimanjaro, cycle over volcanoes in Mexico oreven trek to the North Pole! A little closer to home, thrill seekers can don join us for a massskydive on 4th August when another 40 daredevils, led by our skydiving pensioner JohnWilkins, will take the plunge!

For a perfect summer fundraiser join the KATCH fundraising team to support Bristol Children’sHospital for a day’s Clay Pigeon Shoot, Dinner and Auction in Compton Basset, Wiltshire on22nd June - the ideal event for company team building or just a great day out for you and yourmates. Or if you fancy some glitz and glamour, why not join us for the Children’s EmergencyDepartment Masquerade Ball at Saltford Marina near Bath on 15th September?

We have charity places available in this year’s Bristol Half Marathon on the 30th September or alternatively if you have a place in anymarathon, half marathon, 10K race or even a cycle tour, why not raise funds for The Grand Appeal? We’ll be here to support you all the wayto the finish line and will provide you with your Grand Appeal running vest and everything you need for fundraising.

To get involved in any of these fantastic events or for more information on hosting your own fundraiser to support Bristol Children’s Hospitaland the Special Care Baby Unit, email us on [email protected] or give us a call on 0800 919 649!

Upcoming Events

News Round UpNews Round Up

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3The Bristol Children’s Hospital Charity

Please support our Children’s Cancer Appeal

Grand Appeal Ambassador Paula Banks and herfamily set up the Jack Banks Star Tribute Fund withthe Grand Appeal in 2008 in memory of her son Jack, who sadly passedaway after losing his battle with leukaemia when he was just 9 years old.

Jack was diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia in November 2003 aged 4 years old. He underwent chemotherapy treatment and a bone marrow transplant at Bristol Children’s Hospital, for which his brother, Joe, then aged 8, was the donor. Following his transplant, Jackremained in remission for over 2 years, but in August 2006 he relapsed and needed further treatment. Jack remained well for a year butfollowing a routine bone marrow test it was confirmed that Jack had relapsed again. He had further chemotherapy and radiotherapy and anunrelated donor was found for a second bone marrow transplant. In May 2008 Jack was admitted for his transplant but after two months inhospital, Jack developed pneumonia and passed away on 23rd July 2008 with his mum and dad beside him, holding his brother's hand.Paula, along with her friends and family formed ‘Team Jack’ to make a difference for children dealing with cancer and leukaemia at theChildren’s Hospital and have now fundraised an incredible £48,000 in Jack’s memory for The Grand Appeal. Team Jack have fundraised inso many different ways, from Half Marathons to Garden parties, to a group skydive and Cut-athons. Team Jack are supporting our Children’sCancer Appeal.

(Continued from page 1) More than 5,000 children in and around the South West are diagnosed withcancer every year. Cancer Services at Bristol Children’s Hospital support children from all over Bristol,the South West and South Wales.

We need to raise £250,000 to build a conservatory playroom, a parent’s room and kitchen, and en-suite bedrooms for sick children who are receiving their treatment in isolation. Children suffering fromcancer and leukaemia are often in hospital for months at a time and can be miles away from theirhomes, some patients coming from overseas. We want to make this difficult time as comfortable aspossible by providing a playroom with a rooftop conservatory, to let the outside in. We also know howhard it can be for their families, and we want to provide them with kitchen and rest facilities away fromclinical ward areas. We also want to give privacy and dignity to sick children by creating en-suitebathrooms for rooms on the new Children’s Cancer Ward.

Your support is vital to help support children with cancer, to donate to our appeal and for more information visit www.grandappeal.org.uk orcall us on 0800 919 649. Thank you.

Team Jack

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Thanks to your wonderful support, the Cots for Tots Appealhas reached its £1million target in less than 18 months! We are so grateful to each and every one of you for yourfantastic fundraising and generous donations, please continueto support the Cots for Tots Appeal to support vital facilitiesfor Special Care Babies from all over the South West of England and South Wales.

The Cots for Tots Appeal was launched in October 2010 in partnership with BristolEvening Post to provide a new suite of four intensive care cots to care for an additional150 babies every year at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St Michael’sHospital, as well as dedicated family accommodation just across the road. The Appealhas increased the number of cots on the NICU from 27 to 31 and these four new life-saving cots have kept babies in Bristol that would have otherwise been sent elsewhere,including the premature triplets and quads born recently at the Hospital.

The Cots for Tots Appeal has also created a new family accommodation facility, so thatparents of babies treated on the Unit, can stay, free of charge, close to their critically-ill orpremature baby in NICU. Cots for Tots House, a 12 bedroom building situated directlyopposite the Hospital, will provide a ‘home-from-home’ environment for up to 200 familiesa year and is specially designed for the comfort of the whole family. The house is nowopen to families but we can only continue to provide accommodation free of charge toparents of sick and premature babies with your ongoing support.

The Appeal has captured the hearts of the whole community with tens of thousands ofpeople from all walks of life raising funds for the Appeal. Local and regional businesses,schools, community groups, sports clubs, hospital staff and families with babies treated at

The Brailsford’s amazing Christmas lights fundraiser

Little Indra and his mum Jocasta

George and Esme appeared on the front of our causeleaflet

One of the new neonatal intensive care cots Cots for Tots House The Cots for Tots Intensive Care Suite

Connie Fisher and the cast from The Sound of Musicjoin us for Tinsel for Tots

Cots for T£1 mil

Cots for T£1 mil

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NICU have come together to raise funds through a wide range of activities including aCots for Tots skydive, abseil, sponsored runs, walks, swims and cycles, cake sales, rafflesand our Christmas fundraiser ‘Tinsel for Tots’.

From pennies to pounds, donations have included pocket money given by children to a£50,000 donation from the Al Fayed Charitable Foundation, which have all added up tomake the Cots for Tots Appeal such a success. But this is not the end for the Cots for TotsAppeal, we still need your help so we can continue to support the life-saving work of theNICU and provide free family accommodation for the parents of sick and premature babies.

There are so many ways you can get involved and supporting us is simple. Frommaking a donation to organising a fundraising event - every penny counts.

One of the family rooms at Cots for Tots House The living room of Cots for Tots House

Ben, Charlotte and baby Leo helped us launch the

Cots for Tots Appeal back in 2010

Hundreds abseiled Bristol Children’s Hospital tosupport the AppealWe are extremely grateful to The Al Fayed CharitableFoundation for sponsoring an intensive care cot within thenew Cots for Tots intensive care suite at St Michaels Hospital.The ‘Camilla Bay’ is now being used by special care babiesfrom all over the South West. Thank you so much for yourwonderful support.

The team from PVR direct who ran the 10k in aid of

Cots for Tots

Premature triplets Tyler, Page and Archie were

able to stay together thanks to the new cotsCharlotte’s gingerbread man fundraising raised over£400 for Cots for Tots

We are hugely grateful to The Post for their invaluable supportof the Cots for Tots Appeal. The Post has supported theAppeal since the launch, covering all manner of fundraisingactivities and events, from record breaking hockey matches totinselled nuns; they have supported us all the way. Thank youso much!

Tots raisesllion!

Tots raises llion!

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A Grand Design!We are proud to announce that Wallace & Gromit’s GrandAppeal has a beautiful new website!

The site has been designed and created for us entirely free of charge by the wonderfulpeople at Element 78 Solutions and we cannot thank them enough for all their amazing

hard work. Iain Rhodes, Director of Element 78, said“Element 78 is thrilled to be working with The GrandAppeal. As a business we aim to contribute to ourlocal community and what better way to do so thanby partnering with The Grand Appeal to support ourlocal children’s hospital”

This new site will make it so much easier for oursupporters to see how they have made a hugedifference for sick children at Bristol Children’sHospital. It will also be a one-stop shop for findingout about all our upcoming events, our latest newsand how to get involved in fundraising for TheGrand Appeal.

We’d love to hear what you think about it so checkit out today at www.grandappeal.org.uk

Banks, insurance companies, pubs, hairdressers, supermarkets, car dealerships, shopsand marketing agencies were among the organisations that took part in the challengeand were tasked with the raising £1,000 in 1 year. The 52 companies that completedthe challenge absolutely smashed their targets and raised over a staggering £77,000for the Appeal. Every business that signed up to the challenge worked extremely hard toreach their target and were incredibly innovative in their fundraising.

Lee Wells, owner of environmentally-friendly junk removal business The Junk Buster (pictured) said "We wanted to support Cots for Tots becauseit is a charity close to our hearts. Fundraising for Cots for Tots has really given us a sense of achievement in supporting such a worthy cause.”

We wish to thank every business that took part for raising such a remarkable sum of money and for your incredible dedication to the Appealthroughout the campaign.

Our Business Challenge is a really easy way for companies throughout the South West to support their local Children’s Hospital. Pleasecontact us to find out how your business can help support our forthcoming Children’s Cancer Appeal.

When we launched The Cots for Tots Appeal we called forcompanies – big or small – to join our Business Challenge tohelp raise funds for the Appeal to support the Special CareBaby Unit.

The Grand Appeal is delighted to be inpartnership with dealcloud.co.uk – oneof the UK’s leading daily deals sites! Bypurchasing one of their fantastic dailydeals you can enjoy huge savings oneverything from weekends away,beauty treatments and restaurant diningand the best bit is The Grand Appealwill receive a half the profits from everydeal you buy.

Visit www.dealcloud.co.uk/Bristol?CT=WGCF to treat yourself whilesupporting Your Children’s Hospital!

Grab a bargainand support TheGrand Appeal

The Business Challenge raises

£77,000!

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Children of Class 3 from Hinton St George CE First School in Somerset for raising £20.15

The Entertainer for their continuous support and for raising over £20,000 through the Pennies electronic charity box which is available in all South West stores

DFS, Nailsea Electrical and Dunelm Mill for donating sofas, electrical items and soft furnishings respectively for the Cots for Tots House

Charlotte Sweet and Elieia Cann for raising £20 at their cake sale

The Hilton Foundation who donated an amazing £15,000 to provide a Cerebral Function Monitor

Bristol University Officers Training Corps for their amazing support all year round, including their group skydive!

Metropolitan Orchestra and Male Voice Choirs for their fantastic Gala Concerted which raised a whopping £6,439.73!

The Fence Club for kindly donating £2000 which helped purchase an infusion pump for NICU

Ridgeway and District Angling Association for raising £250 from their 4th annual Charity Match

Eaton Aerospace for funding £15,455.87 to support the refurbishment for the Adolescent Activity Room

Mr Leonard Maxwell who raised £110 on the occasion of his 90th birthday bash!

Huge thanks to Lifeline for Kids for providing two neonatal nasal cannula systems for NICU

All our amazing Bath Half Marathon Runners who together have raised over £15,000!

ThankYou!...to everyone who has supported us over the last few of months, your

support really does make a great difference! Although it is difficult tothank everyone who has supported us in this newsletter, here are just

a few of our donors over the past few months...

ThankYou!

Good luck to our fundraisers taking on international charity challenges this year in France, Belgium, India and Africa!

Andrea Fowler and John Pepworth - Cycling London to Paris, Abdul Ghani Ismael – Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, Michael Gibbon – Cycling London to Brussels in 24 hours!, Paul Wilkinson and team – Cycling from Bristol to Barcelona,

The KATCH team – Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and Glen Richards – Cycling the Rajastan Tiger Challenge’.

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Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal Registered Charity No. 1043603 Company registration No. 3008531 © and TM Aardman/Wallace & Gromit Limited 2011

Images courtesy of Bristol Evening Post

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