Autumn 2014 Corporate partnerships newsletter Hospital news Great Ormond Street Hospital celebrates Breaking New Ground on the Premier Inn Clinical Building
Charity patrons Tess Daly and Vernon Kay joined young The Walt Disney Company UK has also provided significant patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital as they helped to financial support towards the redevelopment project and has launch the construction of the Premier Inn Clinical Building, committed to create a garden for families and visitors which an ambitious world class facility which will form the second will sit between the two buildings. part of the Mittal Children’s Medical Centre. The Breaking New Great Ormond Street Hospital Interim Chief Executive Julian Ground ceremony, which took place on 30 September, marked Nettel said: “We are incredibly grateful to all our supporters the beginning of works that will see the top four floors of the who have made this day possible. Thanks to their generosity, hospital’s outdated Cardiac Wing demolished and redeveloped. we will be able to fulfil our vision of providing world-class The state-of-the art building, which is set to open in 2017, will treatment in more comfortable and appropriate facilities include a new surgery centre, a respiratory ward and a 16 bed suitable for patients and their isolation unit for children with dermatology and rheumatology families. We will also be conditions or infectious diseases. The new facilities will provide able to treat more children much needed space for a parent or carer to stay by their child’s from across the UK who bedside overnight, more room for children to play and eat need our care.” together and areas for parents to have a break. Representatives from In 2008, Aditya and Megha Mittal made a £15 million pledge Premier Inn at the towards the development of The Mittal Children’s Medical ceremony with patients Centre, the first phase of which was the completion of the Edward and Jessica. Morgan Stanley Clinical Building in 2012. The Premier Inn Clinical Building is the second development in the Mittal Children’s Medical Centre and will connect floor by floor with the Morgan Stanley Clinical Building. Once complete, it is anticipated that the entire hospital will be able to treat up to 20 per cent more children with the most complex, rare and often life-threatening conditions. Whitbread Hotels and Restaurants, which runs Premier Inn, has pledged to raise £7.5 million towards the Premier Inn Clinical Building through fundraising activity at more than 670 Premier Vernon was given a Inn hotels and 380 restaurants nationwide. tour of the building site by VIP guests, patients Callum and Grace.
Grace’s story
Strictly Come Dancing fan Grace, age nine, has been treated at times. It's great to see plans for the new facilities that will make the GOSH since birth. She was a VIP guest at the Breaking New Ground journey easier for families like ours.” ceremony and helped to lay the plaque that marked the start of construction work for the Premier Inn Clinical Building.
Grace was born with complications of her trachea, oesophagus, heart, spine and bowels. As a result she has undergone numerous operations, primarily to allow her to breathe, swallow and pass food safely.
“Grace was transferred to GOSH when she was just 12 hours old,” says Grace’s mum. “It became our home for the next 15 months. We’ve been coming here regularly ever since. Each step of the way, the fabulous staff at GOSH have been there, not just to help Grace get through it, but me too!
“The surgeons and medical staff, the wonderful nurses, and the Grace with Tess Daly at the play specialists have all helped us through some very difficult Breaking New Ground ceremony.
2 Thanks a million, RBC! Disney teams take on the Great River Race
GOSH patient Robert helps open the London Stock Exchange The ‘Chewbacca’ team out on the river. to celebrate another successful RBC Race for the Kids.
This summer saw a record-breaking year for RBC Race for the On Saturday 27 September, 32 Disney cast members took part in Kids with over 6,000 people taking part in the charity’s flagship the Great River Race, rowing an impressive 21.6 miles along the running event, raising an amazing £850,000. It also saw the River Thames. The Great River Race, London's river marathon, event’s title sponsor, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), hit a very attracts over 300 crews from all over the globe. Four Disney important milestone. A record 1,250 RBC employees, friends boats took to the water on the day, with each boat themed and family took part, and together they raised £275,000 for the around a different Disney film. charity, taking the total raised by RBC over the past five years to As part of this challenge, participants have also raised an more than £1 million. incredible £67,500 for the charity through a number of The funds raised will go towards creating a new neurosciences fundraising initiatives, including sample sales, a summer party, centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) which, when an online auction and a quiz night. The funds will go towards completed in 2017, will be the UK’s largest centre for treating Disney’s pledge to raise £10 million as part of Great Ormond children with neurological conditions. Street Hospital Children's Charity’s redevelopment appeal. Part of the redevelopment plans include an outdoor garden specially Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity is proud to now designed and landscaped by Disney, which will bring a little recognise RBC as one of our Friends of Adeona. An invitation to Disney magic to our patients and their families. The garden is become a Friend of Adeona is the highest form of recognition due to open alongside the Premier Inn Clinical Building in 2017. that we are able to bestow on our supporters and was created especially to recognise our most generous benefactors without whom GOSH would not be the world-class children’s research hospital it is today. The ‘Agents of Skiff’ Congratulations and thank you team prepare to take on the Great River Race. to everyone at RBC on this phenomenal achievement!
The ‘Neverlanders’ getting in to character before the race. The RBC team about to embark on their London to Paris challenge earlier this year.
3 ASK Italian swim, cycle and Speedway star run their way to £500,000 Tai Woffinden raises
Thursday 10 July saw dozens of teams from ASK Italian restaurants over £80,000 across the country, as well as suppliers, friends and family, join together and compete in the ASK Italian Summer Triathlon.
The event was held at the spectacular Eton Dorney Lake, the rowing venue of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and raised £45,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital’s (GOSH) new surgery centre. The amount took ASK Italian past the halfway point of their fantastic pledge to raise £1 million for the charity. GOSH patient Grace, along with mum Jo and sister Molly, came along as guests of honour to meet participants and hand out medals as they crossed the finish line.
Steve Holmes, ASK Italian’s Managing Director, said: “I have to Tai with congratulate all the participants – I know how exhausting the hours patient Ella of training were, never mind completing the event itself! We’re thrilled on Eagle to have raised a further £45,000 for the charity, which will go towards Ward. our pledge to raise £1 million to help build a new surgery centre Speedway World Champion Tai Woffinden, who has challenged at the hospital.” himself to raise £100,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Thank you to everyone Charity this year, kicked off his fundraising challenge with a sponsored who took part! cycle ride from Newport, Wales to Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium ahead of the British FIM Speedway Grand Prix on 13 July. Tai recently visited Eagle Ward at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where he met patient Ella and saw how the money he is raising will help the hospital by funding a bedroom in the new Premier Inn Clinical Building.
During his fundraising cycle ride, Tai was joined by friends from the world of Speedway, including fellow champions Jason Crump and Greg Hancock. They rode from a Premier Inn in Newport to a Premier Inn in Cardiff, where more than 50 of their fans joined them in supporting Tai’s challenge. Together, the group cycled to the Millennium Stadium, where they completed a lap of the Grand Prix track before having their picture taken on the winner’s podium. Guest of Tai said: “A huge thank you to everyone who has sponsored us honour, Grace, handing out and who turned out in Cardiff to cheer the team on our way. I was GOSH patient Grace meeting medals. so inspired by the children I met on Eagle Ward – the thought of Steve Holmes. the amazing bravery they have shown really kept me going.”
F1® Party has record-breaking year
On Wednesday 2 July, F1® drivers and celebrities marked the The money raised at this year’s F1® Party will help to fund a new official launch of the 2014 FORMULA ®1 SANTANDER BRITISH surgery centre, which will allow us to treat more children with GRAND PRIX at the 10th annual F1® Party in aid of Great Ormond rare and complex conditions in state-of-the-art facilities that Street Hospital Children’s Charity. match the world-class care provided by the hospital’s doctors and nurses. Held at London’s V&A Museum, the exclusive event, which was sponsored by SHOW Beauty, raised over £900,000 towards a new, state-of-the-art surgery centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital. The amount brought the total funds raised by the F1® community to more than £4 million.
Planned with the help of Tamara Ecclestone and hosted by the charity’s patrons Tess Daly and Vernon Kay, the star-studded party celebrated 10 years of the charity’s very special partnership with F1®.
Guests enjoyed an exclusive Q&A hosted by presenter Natalie Pinkham with F1® stars Christian Horner, Eric Boullier and Damon Hill, alongside live performances from La Roux and The Gypsy Queens. Attendees at the event were also inspired Natalie Pinkham quizzed Damon by a heartfelt speech from Mari Edwards, whose baby daughter Hill, Christian Horner and Eric Meila had life-saving surgery at the hospital when she was just Boullier live on stage. Jay Rutland and hours old. Tamara Eccleston.
4 A hole in one for Whitbread Viva Las Vegas! Hotels and Restaurants’ Marks & Spencer host charity golf day glamourous charity ball
Whitbread Hotels and Restaurants held its 12th annual charity golf Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity was delighted to be day on Wednesday 9 July at the fabulous Marriott Forest of Arden selected as one of the beneficiaries of Marks & Spencer’s (M&S) annual Hotel and Country Club. Following a fantastic day of golf, guests Food Group Charity Day and Ball. enjoyed a wonderful evening of delicious food and live entertainment During the day, football and netball tournaments with dozens of from comedian Sean Collins. teams from M&S and its suppliers competed for an array of awards Through the generosity of Whitbread that were presented later that evening by Great Ormond Street Hotels and Restaurants and its suppliers, Hospital Children’s Charity celebrity supporter Rory Bremner. a phenomenal £70,000 was raised In the evening, M&S put on a spectacular Las Vegas-themed ball through ticket sales, a luxury auction at the Grosvenor House Hotel for more than 1,100 guests. It was a and raffle. This money will go towards tremendous success, raising over £350,000. the company’s £7.5 million pledge, which will help open a brand-new, Since 2011, M&S and its suppliers have donated over £800,000 to state-of-the-art clinical building at help establish a pioneering research programme into new and better Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2017. treatments for life-limiting gastroenterological conditions. The The Premier Inn Clinical Building will Gastroenterology department at Great Ormond Street Hospital is one provide spacious, modern inpatient of the UK’s leading centres of excellence in treating complex diseases affecting the gut and other associated organs. The team see more Guests enjoyed a comedy wards and will help the hospital keep set from Sean Collins. up with the growing demand for its than 6,000 children with chronic and life-limiting conditions each vital services. year, and have pioneered cutting-edge treatments for previously incurable diseases. Celebrity ambassadors take on the City at the Goodman Masson break BGC Global Charity Day Peter Pan world record
Every year on 11 September, financial services company BGC Partners donates its global revenues to charity in commemoration of those who lost their lives in the World Trade Center attacks. This year, the funds were distributed between charities around the world, and Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity is privileged to have been selected as one of the beneficiaries.
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity supporters Jack Wilshere, Barbara Windsor, Denise Van Outen, Rachel Riley, Vernon Kay and four of our amazing patients all got involved to raise money on the day by getting on the phone and helping to Record-breaking numbers of Peter Pans on the steps of St Paul’s. close those all-important deals.
We are extremely grateful to BGC On 29 August, 284 Goodman Masson employees and their families Partners and its staff for inviting donned green tights and tunics to break the Guinness World the charity to be involved in this Record for the most people dressed as Peter Pan. Much to the amazing day. entertainment of visiting tourists, the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral were filled with green as everyone gathered to take part in the world record attempt.
With the world record safely secured, the Peter Pans swapped their swords for collection buckets and set out across London, collecting Our fabulous celebrity a fantastic £1,860 for the charity. A big congratulations and thank ambassadors helping to you to everyone at Goodman Masson who took part. close the deal.
5 All the money from our Christmas campaign will help Hugo is getting ready support the hospital’s remarkable patients and their for Christmas, are you? families this Christmas. Hugo, who is the face of this year’s Christmas appeal, was born with a condition called exomphalos, which meant that his liver and With Christmas creeping up on us at an astonishing some of his bowel were outside pace, there’s never been a better time to order this his body when he was born. He year’s corporate Christmas cards. Great Ormond received life-saving emergency Street Hospital Children's Charity has a range of surgery at Great Ormond corporate Christmas cards or email footer options, Street Hospital when he was which highlight your company’s support for the just one day old. charity while raising valuable funds for the hospital. Each can be personalised with your company logo For more information and a message of your choice. about our Christmas e-cards, please email [email protected] or call 020 7239 3049
Festive fundraising
Christmas is the perfect time to get your company involved in fundraising for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. Whether it’s organising a Christmas jumper day, carolling in the office or asking colleagues to donate an hour's or even a day's pay, you'll be suprised at how generous people can be during the festive season. Our Christmas fundraising pack containing lots of festive fundraising ideas is now available, so please let your Account Manager know if you'd like to receive a copy.
Welcome to... Thomsons Thames
Worldpay challenge A big welcome to Worldpay, who has chosen to support Thomsons Online Benefits has set itself an ambitious target to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity as its new raise £208,000 over the next two to three years to help fund charity partner. With an exciting range of activities in the the new Cystic Fibrosis Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital. pipeline, we are looking forward to working together and The first event in their campaign was the Thomsons Thames smashing Worldpay’s first-year target of £100,000. Challenge, which involved travelling 130 miles of the Thames by any non-motorised means. Sophie’s Steakhouse Over 120 employees put their imaginations to the test, with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity will take some creative results! Some used traditional methods to centre stage on the theatre menu of Sophie’s Steakhouse cover the route, including running, cycling on Boris bikes, and in Covent Garden, with a £1 donation being made for each rowing. Others took part in an alphabet challenge, where they theatre menu sold. covered each five-mile stint via a different means of transport that started with a letter of the alphabet – from aerobics to zombies! So far, they have raised an impressive £115,000. Dorling Kindersley Welcome to Dorling Kindersley, who has chosen to support Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity by producing The Really Cool Activity Book, a winter-themed sticker book, where all profits from sales will go to the charity.
Terrifying The team from Thomsons Thomsons relaxing after their cycling leg zombies! of the challenge. 6 Meet a fundraiser: Sophie Marks
Sophie Marks is Secretary of the MetLife Makes a If you could run any event or activity where resource was Difference charity committee and has organised not an issue, what would you do? A big charity gala dinner or ball would be great to do! It’s and taken part in a wide range of fundraising something we’ve not done before, but could be on the agenda activities. MetLife has been in partnership with next year… the charity since 2013 and has raised more What would you say to someone who was thinking about the £100,000 to date for the hospital’s new supporting Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity? neurosciences centre. Here, Sophie tells us about Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity is one of the her experiences as a fundraiser. UK’s best-loved charities, and with good reason! The money the charity raises is put to such good use, and helps some of What do you like most about being a fundraiser? the most unwell children, not just in the UK but around the The feeling of raising money for a great cause is very world. It’s a cause that really resonates with everyone, and rewarding. And it’s great to work with colleagues and friends to it is a pleasure to fundraise for them. Plus the guys in the achieve something together. Corporate Partnerships team are brilliant to work with and are What has been your favourite fundraising activity so far? very supportive. I enjoy all of the office-based fundraisers we organise, like bake sales and raffles, as they’re a great way of building team morale. I’ve taken part in a few challenges too: my favourite was the Grand Union Challenge. A group of 30 MetLife staff took part in walking various distances – 25km, 50km and 100km (I did 50km!) – and we raised over £17,000. A great achievement.
What has been the biggest challenge so far? Walking 50km along the Grand Union Canal route in the pouring rain was definitely a challenge. We walked from Regent’s Park all the way out to Watford, and it was a tough walk – I still have the blisters!
What is your top fundraising tip to share? Fundraising is not easy, but the best tip I could share is just to get the message out there. When you are taking part in a challenge, make sure everyone knows about it. Your friends, family, colleagues… everyone! Don’t be afraid to ask people for sponsorship, as you’ll be surprised who’ll have a connection to Great Ormond Street Hospital and will want to sponsor you.
Sophie and company mascot, Snoopy, on their Grand Union Canal trek.
Congratulations and thank you! Universal Music UK Phones 4u Congratulations to everyone Well done and thank you to the from Universal Music UK who amazing team from Phones 4u took part in the Thames Path who completed an epic five day Challenge. Together they raised challenge to raise money for over £5,000 for Great Ormond the charity. The team travelled Street Hospital Children’s Charity. an impressive 295km from the company’s head office in MetLife Newcastle Under Lyme to Great Well done to MetLife Ormond Street Hospital, using a employees who took part in variety of non-motorised means. lots of fundraising events over the summer, including the Grand Union Challenge, Spartan Sprint and a skydive. The team from Phones 4U.
7 Ava’s story Useful information
Having given birth to her first child without any Fundraising materials complications, Kelly wasn’t worried when she attended We can provide you with a limited selection of the the first scan for her second baby. Unfortunately, that following fundraising materials to help with your events. changed very quickly when the scan showed that her Please notify your Account Manager should you like any: baby’s abdominal wall hadn’t formed properly, so the • balloons • Gift Aid forms intestines were on the outside of the baby’s body – a • collection buckets • posters condition known as gastroschisis. • collection tins • regular giving forms It was arranged that Kelly would have her baby at • company specific • sponsorship forms University College Hospital, around the corner from Great • paying-in forms Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), so that her baby could be Gift Aid transferred to GOSH straight after birth. Through Gift Aid, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s “I knew I would have the baby early,” says Kelly, “but a Charity will receive an additional 25p for every pound you scan at 35 weeks showed her bowels had dilated, so they donate. As long as you are a UK taxpayer you can download wanted to deliver her even sooner – I had to be induced a Gift Aid declaration form from www.gosh.org/donate/ gift-aid, complete the Gift Aid details on our sponsorship that day.” form, or contact your designated Account Manager. Baby Ava was born by normal delivery, weighing less than 4lb. Her intestines were now exposed to the air so an How to send us your donations operation needed to happen within hours. All donations can be posted or transferred to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. Please While Kelly waited to be discharged, dad Daniel went ahead ensure all donations include: to GOSH where the Surgery team started the delicate • your company name and address process of putting Ava’s intestines back inside her abdomen. • your name and contact details But Ava’s case was complicated, and this couldn’t be done • a brief description of your event in one go. Day by day, doctors eased more of the intestines Cheques: Please make cheques payable to Great Ormond in – a process aided by suspending them above Ava’s body Street Hospital Children’s Charity and send directly to your so that gravity helped them into place. Account Manager. We can provide bank details, but please After a week, Ava was ready to be closed up and shortly Bank payments: let us know in advance so we can identify your donation. after was well enough to move to Squirrel Ward. Finally, nine weeks after she was born, Ava could go home. Make payday count “I was scared but we were over the moon,” says Kelly. Have you considered donating to Great Ormond “Now Ava’s doing really well and hopefully she’ll be able to Street Hospital Children’s Charity through your salary each month? Payroll Giving is a simple, tax-efficient way lead a normal life. I still look at her and think, ‘I don’t know to show your support. Visit www.gosh.org/payrollgiving how they did it’.” to find out more.
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