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REN’S H ILD OS CH PI L TA O L T C S I H R A B R E I T H Y T Gromit Unleashed 2 Challenge Badge Design This challenge has been designed by Girlguiding Bristol & South Gloucestershire County, with the support of The Grand Appeal and Aardman. ®The Grand Appeal. Registered charity 1043603. Wallace & Gromit ©Aardman Animations Ltd 2018. Gromit Unleashed™ Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Foundation. All rights reserved. WELCOME TO YOUR CHALLENGE PACK! If you’re holding this guide in your hands, you’ve already done something amazing. You’ve made the decision to take part in the Gromit Unleashed 2 Challenge and to raise funds to help sick children and their families at Bristol’s Children’s Hospital. So to help you on your way, we’ve put together lots of ideas to keep the kids busy over the summer and make sure your fundraising experience is as entertaining and memorable as possible. So how do you get started? It’s easy. Take a few minutes to read through your pack full of tips, advice and inspiration. We’ll give you a step-by-step guide to getting the most out of your summer, as well as the legal bits to help you stay safe, whilst fundraising! Still have a question for us? Get in touch! Contact [email protected] or [email protected] GROMIT UNLEASHED 2 This summer, Gromit Unleashed 2 will see Gromit, return to Bristol for his second starring role in The Grand Appeal’s award-winning sculpture trails, but this time he’s not alone. The loveable pooch will be joined by his pal Wallace and arch nemesis Feathers McGraw! Starting on Monday 2 July and finishing on Sunday 2 September, the trail will feature over 60 giant sculptures positioned in high footfall and iconic locations around Bristol and the surrounding area. From Saturday 15 September to Sunday 30 September, the sculptures will be reunited in ‘The Greatest Dog Show on Earth 2: Friends and Foe’ in a special pavilion at The Mall at Cribbs Causeway. Don’t forget to book early for this sell-out exhibition at grandappeal.org.uk! Finally, on Wednesday 3 October, the sculptures will go under the hammer at Bristol’s Aerospace Museum. Tickets to this supersonic event will be restricted to bidders only. However, we will be able to watch the evening unfold from the comfort of our homes and perhaps even bid online for our favourite designs. Gromit Unleashed 2 follows the success of the Gromit Unleashed and Shaun in the City arts trails, which saw two of Aardman’s most loved characters raise over £6 million for The Grand Appeal, Bristol Children’s Hospital Charity. The challenge badge has played an important part in this fundraising total, raising over £21,000 with your support! For more information, visit grandappeal.org.uk or download the ‘Detect-o-Gromit 2: Friend & Foe’ app available on iPhones and Android phones. The Challenge Complete at least one activity from each section, with leaders choosing depending on the age and abilities of the young people in their units. A GRAND DAY OUT Take part in the Gromit Unleashed 2 trail. You could make it 1 an overnight outing and stay at one of our brilliant properties: In the girlguidingbsg.org.uk/index.php/properties animation, ‘A Grand Visit your local observatory or planetarium and discover Day Out’, Wallace and 2 Gromit enjoy a day out with if the moon really is made of cheese! a difference when a quest to Organise a space-themed evening, stargaze and make rockets. Think find cheese prompts a visit 3 about what you would take and turn it into a game: “I went to space to the moon in a home- and I took…” made rocket. Visit a local cheesemaker or take a trip to Cheddar 4 to find out more about Britain’s most popular cheese. THE WRONG TROUSERS In the animation, ‘The Wrong Trousers’, money troubles prompt Wallace to take in a lodger, the dastardly penguin Feathers McGraw, who adapts his ‘techno trousers’ for his latest heist. Learn about a famous inventor, such as Brunel, and how they 1 changed the world. Follow in Wallace’s footsteps and become an inventor yourself. 2 Work as a group or individually to create your labour saving gadgets. Visit your local zoo and make a special trip to the penguin 3 enclosure – you might even see Feathers McGraw, although you’ll have to be careful as he may be in disguise! 4 Have a go at making your own animated short film. A CLOSE SHAVE Knit or crochet your own woollen masterpiece. 1 If you haven’t tried finger or arm knitting yet, In the film, nows the time to learn! ‘A Close Shave’, business Find out about how wool is made – from sheep to is booming for Wallace and 2 Gromit’s new window-cleaning spinning! Can you find somewhere to try wool service, when the new venture spinning for yourself? introduces them to the owner of 3 Make pom poms and turn them into fluffy sheep. a wool shop and a ferocious mutt. Try shaving foam printing, using water colours to 4 bring your pictures to life. CHEESE GROMIT! Hold a blind cheese tasting evening. 1 3 Host a fondue evening and find out Will anyone be brave enough to about cheese from around the world. taste Stinking Bishop? Bake some cheesy snacks and get 4 2 Try making your own cheese! A everyone’s taste buds tingling. simple homemade cheese is much easier than you think. BRISTOL CHALLENGES Get stuck into Bristol life and learn 1 to speak ‘Brizzle’, the local dialect. Celebrate Bristol’s thriving art scene 2 and hold a Banksy-style evening. Find out about and try a sport played 3 in Bristol or learn about famous Bristol sports players. Design a Bristol flag, which local 4 people would be proud to wave. FUNDRAISING CHALLENGE Whatever you do and however much you raise, your money will help save lives and support sick children and their families at Bristol Children’s Hospital. Over 100,000 children from across Bristol, the South West and South Wales are treated at Bristol Children’s Hospital every year. Many of the young patients are local children, while some families travel across the region for specialist care and others from the whole of the UK for bone marrow transplants. The Grand Appeal supports Bristol Children’s Hospital with pioneering, life-saving equipment and research, including ventilators, a cardiac hybrid theatre and an inter-operative MRI scanner, so that each child receives the best care possible. We offer comfort through our Grand Appeal family support worker and our home-from-home accommodation, where parents and siblings stay free of charge, for as long as they need. We ensure the hospital is a vibrant and child friendly place and help distract the young patients through our music therapy, art and play programmes. But none of this would be possible without you. By fundraising you are helping to give every child the care they need, and the chance they deserve. Thank you £50 could buy toys, games, books and magazines to £50 distract and entertain children of all ages. “Our hospital stays would be 10 times worse without the toys, DVDs and oncology playroom, all funded by The Grand Appeal.” Victoria, Bristol £100 could provide parents with emotional and practical help from our family support worker, enabling them to £100 cope more easily with having a very sick child. “She was very informative and listened to what our problems were. She kept in touch and her ability to keep me updated was just outstanding – thank you.” £500 could provide 10 music therapy sessions helping Life hugely improved for epilepsy patient Jack after children to express themselves and lift their spirits. pioneering surgery using the interoperative MRI “Ben was very sick and barely had the energy to do the smallest scanner funded by The Grand Appeal. £500 thing. To see therapist Claire and Ben singing together was amazing. He would beam whenever she arrived for their sessions.” Natalie, Bude £1,000 could fund a month’s accommodation for a family, just minutes from their child’s bedside. “Staying at the charity accommodation meant Noah’s dad and £1,000 sister could visit at the weekend, without the worry and expense of finding a city centre hotel. It also meant I could be a mummy and be there for Noah, day and night.” Louise, Barnstaple £2,000 could go towards pioneering medical equipment to support the sickest children and help save lives “Millie would not have made the journey to Bristol without the £2,000 WATCh team and a specialist Babypod she was transported in. The compassion and attention to care was truly amazing.” Music therapy distracts children like Ben and Mike, Swansea helps them escape the trauma of their treatment. FUNDRAISING CHALLENGE Hold a fundraising event for The Grand Appeal, individually or in groups. If you have an idea in mind, fantastic! The Grand Appeal also has some brilliant events and activities lined up. Here are just a few suggestions to get you started. Held on the last Friday every June, Wrong Trousers Day is a dress down day with a difference. It’s your groups WRONG TROUSERS DAY chance to wear their wackiest and most wonderful trousers and create a spectacle of colour and creativity. Wrong Trousers Day was inspired by the film ‘The Wrong Trousers’, which sees the sinister penguin Feathers McGraw disguise himself as a chicken and use Wallace and Gromit’s robotic ‘techno trousers’ to steal a diamond.