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EE R Registered Charity Number 1061812 F Derby Hospitals Charity Newsletter Spring/ Summer 2018 CELEBRATING YEARS Visit our new The Colour Run Support from Join our Lottery Charity Hub is back! Take Heart and win £1,000 Making patients lives better p2 p3 p11 p15 Spring/Summer 2018 1 01332 785731 [email protected] derbyhospitalscharity.org.uk Derby Hospitals Charity @HospitalCharity Welcome to the latest UPCOMING EVENTS edition of Here’s what is coming up in 2018. Why not sign up It is hard to believe that it is You may have heard about the now to join in the fun? Why not organise your own event – actually 20 years since the proposed merger between Derby just let us know your plans so we can help you separate charities for the and Burton Hospitals and when Please don’t forget to with your fundraising. Contact Vicky Carey – Derbyshire Royal Infirmary and this takes place the two charities [email protected] or call 01332 788861 Derby City General Hospital will also merge. We’ll bring you keep up to date with us combined to form the charity as more news about the charity’s derbyhospitalscharity.org.uk it is today. We have had name expansion later in the year. and on Facebook, Twitter and changes along the way, from Instagram and, very importantly, We’ve been meeting so many make sure you let us know how Southern Derbyshire Acute wonderful fundraisers and Hospitals Charitable Trust to you want us to keep in touch supporters that we have had to with you in future. Derby Hospitals Charity, but we add extra pages to fit you all in! If have always been here to support you have done some fundraising the hospitals by funding items to for us recently, see if you can spot help Make Patients’ Lives Better. yourself in pages 5 -12. Julie Chapman - Editor Colour Run Sunday 9th September 2018 at Markeaton Park Following the amazing success of last year’s event, the colour run is back for 2018! Register early to save your place to get covered from head to toe in a rainbow of colours… Registration is £20 and you will receive a free white t-shirt and paint packet. Registration for under 16’s is £10. Please note: This event is not really suitable for under 5’s Jingle Jog Charity Hub Opens! Sunday 2nd December 2018 We are thrilled to now have a The hub, which is easy to find Everyone’s favourite festive fundraiser! This fun charity hub in the main entrance opposite Marks and Spencers, run is for everyone, adults, children and dogs alike. of the Royal Derby Hospital was officially opened by Trust You don’t have to run, you can walk, jog or run – to make it easier for staff and Chief Executive Gavin Boyle The hub will be staffed it’s up to you! As this event is always very popular, supporters to access information on 22nd March 2018 and is a Monday to Friday please make sure you sign up early. about Derby Hospitals Charity and fantastic new interactive focal between 9am and 4pm REGISTER NOW: the service we provide. point for Derby Hospitals Charity so if you are visiting the www.derbyhospitalscharity.org.uk/events for fundraising, donations and hospital please pop along general enquiries. to say hello to the charity team. 2 Spring/Summer 2018 033 Leaving A FREE WILLS Fundraisers Gift FORTNIGHT 4th–15th JUNE In Your Will Our fantastic fundraisers have been very busy • Leaving a gift in your will is a fantastic way to • Appointments will support Derby Hospitals Charity. be available on a first once again... • We are once again working with Derby Solicitors come first served basis. Alexander & Co to offer our supporters who are • 30% off usual cost for the aged 55 and over the opportunity to have their Will writing service on other dates for Derby simple Wills written or updated free of charge Hospitals Charity supporters. for a fortnight. A gift in your Will costs you nothing now, but your • An up to date Will written by a solicitor can legacy will make a huge difference to patients for ensure your wishes are respected and avoid many years to come. difficult decisions and legal complications for Please contact Alexander & Co Solicitors on your loved ones. Sally Dean’s daughter, Elsie, aged 01332 600005 or email 11 had her head shaved straight • Free Wills Fortnight allows you to provide for [email protected] quote DERBY after her year 6 school leavers prom family and friends and also leave a gift to your HOSPITALS CHARITY raising a fantastic £1,035 for the Intensive Care Unit. chosen charity. The Apprentice and Graduate Andrea Elder, President of The Inner association at Rolls-Royce in Derby Wheel of Heanor presented a cheque for raised an amazing £4,589.17 for Ward £6,000 to Dr Prabir Chakraborti for the 303 with various fundraising events Clinical Oncology Department. including completing the Three Peaks Challenge in less than 24 hours. Thank you to Webs Training Limited who raised an amazing Could You Volunteer £420 for the For Derby Hospitals Charity? Breast Unit. As the charity expands, we need Can you spare a few hours to help out with this year’s events? An amazing £5,000 was Gemma Baines took part in donated to the DART more volunteers to help with the gruelling X Runner event • Colour Run • Jingle Jog Appeal from the Derby our fundraising and community to raise a fantastic £1,269 Sikh Community. events and manning the charity for Ward 301. Mrs Jocelyn Snape and hub in future. As a volunteer you family kindly donated £550 can gain new skills, build new 9 2 from the collection at her husband’s funeral to Kings friendships and broaden your SEPT DEC Lodge Ward 3 LRCH to buy a experiences. Speech Language app to help Luke Heathcote and patients communicate. Chelsea Litchfield donated £600 for the Please email Marie on Care of Bereaved Parents [email protected] fund in memory of Sherryann Worth held their baby Sophia Hazel a charity medium event for more information. Heathcote. at Derby Charnwood Spiritualist Church which raised £280 for the Oncology Department. 044 Spring/Summer 2018 055 Fundraisers Caz Harris organised a Masquerade Ball on 23rd September at Ashbourne Golf Club which raised £1,170 for the Children’s Hospital. Thank you to Party Medical for raising Staff in the finance department at Royal Derby Bobby Cliff took part in Tough £136.50 for the Let’s Go Outside project. raised £1,500 for the Kings Lodge Rehabilitation Mudder last year and raised a Staff on the Intensive Care Unit are Nicky Tatlow raised £2,800 for the Unit with a festive Christmas door competition. fantastic £2,083 for Dolphin fundraising to refurbish a courtyard where Combined Day Unit by holding a Scott Jarvis donated another £500 that he won for Ward in the Children’s Hospital. patients who are unable to leave their disco night and raffle at Littleover his photo of a Kingfisher that was selected for a Social Club last October. Nicky raised beds will be able to spend time outside Rebecca Simcock and Karen Hill held a Gig national calendar to boost the fundraising total. the money to say thank you for the and get some fresh air. & Grub evening and raised an amazing treatment and care she received. £2,620 for the Renal Unit Home Dialysis team in gratitude for the treatment their friend Jackie Smith received. Kinder House, Chellaston Academy have kindly chosen Arty Splats in to fundraise for the Children’s Mickleover raised Hospital throughout the year. £215 for the Tim Howard – Head of house Children’s Hospital Kinder and pupils Ariana and with their Christmas Will came along to present party they had back £210, the first of the donations in December. Rita Walia and Sahaly Thank you so much to the from a 24 hour sports event. Women’s Group raised staff at the Jurys Inn Hotel in over £1,000 for Derby Derby for raising £646.74 for Hospitals Charity’s the Children’s Department general fund – thank you by doing various fundraising ladies! activities. Laura and Mark Elliott who Mr Tony Chambers and Strategic came into the Children’s Communications Services Hospital today to present Limited support the Children’s Staff at Leisure a Cuddle Cot they Furnishings in Long Emergency Department on an Well done to Rebecca purchased – thank you so Eaton took on Mount ongoing basis. Mr Chambers Cumming who cycled from much. Snowdon to raise an is funding the blood gas London to Paris last year and amazing £3,000 for analyser for another year raised an incredible £775 for the Care of Bereaved and also donated a the Labour Ward. Parents fund towards camera and Ipad. cuddle cots. 9 year old Scarlett Gillian Hughes raised Zack Stevenson took Kirkpatrick who raised £1,391.68 from a part in a 3k run and £516 the Combined Zumbathon held last year at Pentrich Patchers made raised money to buy Day Unit by organising Shobnall Leisure Complex 50 bags for patients who some amazing craft a raffle to say thank with the money raised being attend for breast surgery materials for the you for the treatment split between the DART which they donated to the Children’s Hospital. they gave her Appeal and the Breast Care Elective Procedure Unit. Well done Zack! grandad. Unit at Burton Hospital. 066 Spring/Summer 2018 077 Kiren Rathaur took part in a bungee jump and raised an amazing £570 for the Kings Lodge Rehabilitation Ward.