Little James Bryant and his family are familiarwith the amazing work of Bristol Children’sHospital and the Special Care Baby Unit at StMichael’s Hospital.When James was born back in May 2010, he was quickly transferredto the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St Michael’s Hospitalwhere it was discovered that he had problems with his diaphragm andwith his small intestine which required surgery. After three weeks onNICU James was allowed home but he was a reluctant feeder and inOctober his mum took him to A&E at Bristol Children's Hospital. He

stayed in for two weeks while doctors tried to diagnose the problem andhas continued to receive ongoing treatment and care.

James’ family are now supporting our Cots for Tots Appeal, which israising £1 million to provide four intensive care cots and a familyaccommodation suite for the NICU at St Michael’s,whilst alsocontinuing to support wards at Bristol Children’s Hospital. James’ mumSophie said: "I don't think we could ever do enough to repay the debtfor the help James has had. Our whole family has had such incrediblesupport from the hospital the past 12 months. I think the staff areguardian angels. We are so grateful."

You too can make a huge difference to lives of children like Jamesand this newsletter is packed with great ideas on how you can helpus reach our £1 million target!

and help babies like James...

Lets get to £1 million

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Proudly supporting Bristol Children’s Hospital and St Michael’s Special Care Baby Unit

Winter 2011

This is Caitlin Stuart who as a toddler starred in our Guardian Angels Regular Giving leaflet.She is now seven years old and just recently she and her mum came to visit us here at TheGrand Appeal office where we took this fantastic picture of her with her leaflet! Caitlin wasborn with only 20% kidney function and as a result required a lifesaving kidney transplant atBristol Children’s Hospital. She is now a happy, smiley seven year old and is very proud tobe the face of our Guardian Angels programme, which has raised over £100,000 since itstarted four years ago. Thank you so much to all of our amazing Guardian Angels, yourcontinued support has made a massive difference to the lives of children like Caitlin!

If you’d like information on how you can become a Guardian Angel for The Grand Appealor Cots for Tots Appeal please use the reply slip on the back page of this newsletter or giveus a call on 0800 919 649.

On September 3rd, 31 fundraisers from Bristol Children’s Hospital’s Cardiology departmentrecently embarked on the mammoth challenge of climbing the National Three Peaks! Thatmeant ascending Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scaffel Pike in England and Snowdon in Wales;climbing a total of 10,807 feet and travelling over 460 miles between peaks, and all in just24 hours! The team are raising money for equipment and resources for the Cardiac Ward atBristol Children’s Hospital. The department is the regions specialist centre for the whole of theSouth West of England and South Wales and provides the highest level of care to childrensuffering from a wide range of illnesses including congenital heart defects and heart rhythmproblems. The team are aiming to make their ward as comfortable as possible for patientsand their families and also supporting our current Echocardiogram appeal. You can sponsorthe team today by visiting www.justgiving.com/bristolcardiac3peaks

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News Round UpWelcome to the winter issue of Grand News ! How the months have flown since we celebrated two very special birthdays – BristolChildren’s Hospitals 10th birthday and none other than our wonderfulvolunteer, John Wilkins’ 80th.

Since then we’ve had people jumping out of planes, running marathons, climbing mountains and much more to support Bristol Children’s Hospital and the Special Care Baby Unit at St Michael’sHospital! 2011 has been a hugely successful year thanks to you, our wonderful supporters. A specialmention must also go to all the hospital staff at UH Bristol for their amazing continued support! We’ve had the Cardiac team take on the Three Peaks Challenge, Children’s A&E skydiving, theNICU staff all getting behind Cots for Tots and fundraisers at the Eye Hospital, BRI & Dental Hospital, to name just a few! As a result of allthis incredible support we have raised £85,000 towards our endoscopes appeal, are half way to raising £250,000 for the Echocardiogramappeal and have raised over £620,000 for the Cots for Tots Appeal! The Grand Appeal team here in Bristol are gearing up for our winterand festive activities. There are so many ways you can get involved and we hope you find this issue jam-packed with interesting and fun ideasto support your Children’s Hospital. We couldn’t do it without you. Thank you!

ThankYou from Caitlin

Cardiac Team takeon the Three Peaks!

Georgios reads his article in last month’s newsletter

The team raring to go!

CHARITY OF THEYEAR

Make us your

CHARITY OF THEYEAR

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Contact us today to find out more:Sarah Vipond, Corporate Partnerships Manager

Email: sarah@grandappeal.org.uk Tel: 0117 927 3888

“We are very proud of our long standing partnership with Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal. Over the years we have raised a

considerable amount of money for the Appeal, by bringing the teamtogether for fun and exciting fundraising events. Not only does it

inspire the team to support and learn more about localcommunities, it also brings the workplace together in a way

that no other ordinary business partnership could.

The Grand Appeal Team are fantastic to work with!”

Nigel Palmer, Managing Director - Linden Homes

“We are proud to work with an organisation which has such a huge impact on children

and families from across the whole of the South West region” Neil Winterson, Operations Director – Gem Security

Gem Security Ltd

Charity of theYear partner

2011

Choosing to support The Grand Appeal may be the best business decision you make for 2012...

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Home for Christmas!This November, little Jack Collard will be turning three and willthen be spending Christmas at home in Devon with his parents.

But when he was born he weighed just 1lb & 10oz (750g) – less than a bag of sugar – andhad to spend his first few hours in a protective bag because his skin was so fragile. He spent6 months in an incubator at the Special Care Baby Unit at St Michael’s Hospital and in totalspent more than a year in intensive care. On a number of occasions he was also taken downthe road to Bristol Children’s Hospital for surgery. On January 14th 2010, a whole 14 monthsafter he was born, Jack left the Special Care Baby Unit and went home. He spent twoChristmas’s, his 1st birthday and a total of 421days in hospital! His dad Gary said, “Jackamazed us by his strength and determination tosurvive and will forever be our hero!”

Jack’s mum and dad, Debbie & Gary, both teachat Kelly College, a mixed secondary school inTavistock, and girls from Newton House, aboarding house at the college, were so inspiredby Jack’s amazing story they decided to fundraisefor the Cots for Tots Appeal. The girls hosted acharity swim, (swimming the equivalent ofcrossing the English Channel three times in justone hour), and raised an absolutely incredible£5897 for the appeal! Thank you so much girls!If you’d like to take on a challenge for theAppeal like the amazing Newton House girls,check out our events calendar opposite.

Famous animators fromAardman Animations and aroundthe world have donated uniqueartwork for an online auction toraise money for Wallace &Gromit’s Grand Appeal. As well as a specially created painting byWallace & Gromit creator and Grand

Appeal patron Nick Park, other lots in the exclusive online charity auction willinclude a hand-drawn Roger Rabbit sketch, a Peter Lord Morph artwork and aunique drawing featuring the well-loved character Mr Frederickson from the motionpicture Up donated by Disney-Pixar.

This exciting auction will be hosted on eBay from 1st to 10th November, with allproceeds going to the Grand Appeal. Over 30 artworks have been donated by theworld’s most renowned animation artists. With rare and exclusive artwork up forauction, we hope that the auction will raise over £15,000 towards ourEchocardiogram Appeal to support the Cardiac Ward at Bristol Children’s Hospital.

To find our more and bid on the Auction visit www.grandappeal.org.uk/auction

WORLD FAMOUS ANIMATORS DONATE EXCLUSIVE

ARTWORK TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE GRAND APPEAL.

When X Factor winner andGrand Appeal supporter MattCardle visited Bristol Children’sHospital this spring he donatedhis famous hat that he wore inthe show! To celebrate the release ofhis debut album ‘Letters’ on the 17thOctober we will be auctioning the hatin aid of our Cardiac Appeal. Visitwww.grandappeal.org.uk/mattcardlefor more information.

Matt Cardle

Auction

Animation Art Auction

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Event Name Event Information Date

Debenhams Gala EveningA fabulous evening of fashion, cosmetics and glamour at Debenhams,Bristol to raise funds for Cots for Tots

1st November

Aardman AuctionSee page 4 for more details on this cracking auction of incredibleartwork from across the globe 1st - 10th Nov

Christmas Lights Switch -OnAs part of Destination Bristol’s support of The Grand Appeal, we’ll bethere collecting as Cabot Circus’ Christmas Lights are lit up! 11th November

Totterdown Arts TrailCome along to a fantastic open doors weekend of art in South Bristol– www.frontroom.org.uk

18th - 20th Nov

Bristol MetropolitanOrchestra

A Gala Concert at Colston Hall in aid of Cots for Tots! Tickets are £15 (£12 concessions) and can be found atwww.bristolmetropolitanorchestra.com

19th November

Tinsel for TotsAfter an amazing first year our cracking Christmas fundraiser Tinsel forTots is back! www.tinselfortots.org.uk 9th December

Skate & DonateGet your skates on and head down to The Mall at Cribbs Causewayfor another year of fun on the ice 9th December

Bath Half MarathonThe largest charity fundraiser in the South West and the perfectopportunity for you to raise funds for Bristol Children’s Hospital 11th March 2012

Mass SkydiveYet another 30 daredevils take the plunge and you can be one ofthem. www.grandappeal.org.uk/skydive 7th April 2012

Events CalendarThere are so many ways you can get involved withThe Grand Appeal this winter! Here arejusta few:

For more details on any of the above, or if you’d like to run your own event, we’d love to hear from you

Contact us today on 0800 919 649 or info@grandappeal.org.uk

Recently our patron, and creator of Wallace & Gromit,Nick Park donated this exclusive print of his famous duoflying a hot air balloon over the Clifton SuspensionBridge to The Grand Appeal !

This is the only picture in existence of Wallace & Gromit in a Bristol setting andwe’ve created a cracking greetings card which you can now buy online atwww.grandappeal.org.uk/cards, from The Grand Appeal Office or from selectedretailers across the city!

Smashing Wallace & Gromit Card!

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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!

Renishaw for their generous donation of £5,000 to Cots for Tots - absolutely brilliant!

Jemma Webb for making & selling bracelets to support the Cardiac Ward after her Hearttransplant and all of her family and friends who have supported her amazing fundraising

Rod Baber and family who have raised over £14,000 for a life support machine forPICU in honour of daughter Amalie

Entertainer, Michael Ball for his two collections at Colston Hall & Hippodrome raising over £2,000

All 80 of our Bristol Half Marathon Runners for their brilliant support

Edith Cranfield for her birthday donation of £10 on her 100th birthday

Camb Machine Knives who raised a truly inspirational £3,000 from their ladies night, three peaks and ‘Rock for Tots’ events

Olympic heroes, Lloyds TSB and the Paralympians for visiting the Children’s Hospital

Evie Thompson, aged 11, who was one of the first patients to be treated at the new Bristol Children’s Hospital, for raising£137.04 from her cake sale

Robbins & Day’s community giveaway for donating £1,807.13. Thank you to everyone for voting!

Pershore High School £1,552.79 raised for the Cardiac Ward by Year 11 as their Charity of the Year

Oscar Freddie Paul Star Tribute Fund. Oscar’s family have now raised over £22,000

Diolch yn fawr iawn £14,500 Apêl Elain am eich cefnogaeth anhygoel

Harvey Nichols for raising a fantastic £4,030.60 from their staff events

Priory Community School in Weston for raising a cracking £7,000 for Cots for Tots

Kay Pullen, Matron on NICU for her fabulous Chilli & Choc night fundraising

Jack & Jill Pre-school £1,484.84 raised from their fun-tastic fun day 2011

Nikki Peters and family for raising an amazing £614.37

The Baber family who have raised over

£14,000 with Charlotte and William from PICU

Nikki Peters and twins Lucas and Sully

A couple of our heroic Grand DescentAbseilers

Natalya Knowles and daughter Eesha – a very kind £1,103 raised for the Surgical ward at their summer BBQ

Dan & Kyla Cock, Whitestone Stores and friends for raising over £7,707.96 in memory of their daughter Georgia

Bay Horse Pub who raised an enterprising £628.28 from a book sale and fundraising event

The Underwood Trust, our longstanding supporters who have greatly helped our Cardiology Appeal with a generousdonation of £25,000

All 136 of our brave Abseilers who have raised £25,000 and counting!

Dan, Steph and Paul at Two Heads Marketing for the fantastic fundraising and continued support

The Cast and Crew of BBC’s Casualty for donating items for our fantastic auction raising £1000’s for the children’s hospital

Cumberwell Golf Club – Special thanks to Martin Lang and Richard Body for raising over £8,500 from their golf days!

Mike Prankerd and all of our lovely Aardman volunteers from the Bristol Harbour Festival

Lloyds Group Audit for raising £1,552.52 from their scrumptious cake sale - yum!

Rachel, David & Tyler Pople for raising £6037.10 at their amazing fun day for PICU

Bristol Hippodrome & the Shaun the Sheep Live Show for visiting children at the hospital and raising funds

Mark Watson and The Wild Riders for raising a cracking £592.83

Linden Homes who raised over £7,000 from their cycle ride and golf day

All our friends at Bristol Evening Post for their amazing continued support!

All of our Guardian Angels and our Star Tribute Fund supporters

We are grateful to each and every one of our wonderful supporters ...we couldn’t do it without you!

A few of our amazing Bristol Half

Marathon runners

Mike Prankerd who brought along hisamazing Motorbike & Sidecar to theBristol Harbour FestivalYoung Olympic Basketball Paralympian hopeful Phil

Cochrane visited patients at the Hospital School

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Shaun the Sheep visits the Bristol Children’sHospital play centre!

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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