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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 Thanks to their generosity, hospital’s outdated Cardiac Wing demolished and redeveloped.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.

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