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Winter/Spring 2019 Newsletter Kindly Sponsored By piedpiperappeal www.piedpiperappeal.co.uk offi[email protected] 0300 422 6119 Tonne of Toys a Huge Success With incredible support from the local business community, we managed to absolutely smash our 1000 toys target, and have kitted out the Children’s Centre at GRH with enough toys to last the entire year! Kingsholm Children on the wards and their visiting siblings received Take Over Christmas gifts throughout the festive period and the playroom was restocked with Pied Piper goodies, but the The Play Specialists make a huge difference to children’s’ experiences in giving doesn’t stop there! hospital through supporting them with procedures in the most positive way. Children for example who have to have daily injections to manage diabetes, will work on filling a reward chart with stickers and upon Pied Piper Takes Over at completion receive a gift to reward their bravery. Other children may have Gloucester Rugby birthdays or reasons to celebrate whilst in hospital. 999 Emergency Fancy Dress Week By kitting out the Play Specialist cupboard with this many toys, Pied Piper If you know of a school or business that’d like to celebrate ensures no child will go without reward or recognition during their visit to On 29th December, Gloucester Rugby welcomed both Sale the hard work our emergency services do, whilst raising The Children’s Centre! Sharks and a Pied Piper Appeal crew of volunteers to some funds for Pied Piper and having a bit of fancy-dress Kingsholm Stadium. Handing out Pied Piper balloon models fun, please contact the office to get involved in our annual in return for donations, an enthusiastic Old Cryptians Rugby 999 Week; this year from 23rd-26th April! Club supplied an army of volunteers to collect donations Big Thanks To… around the ground. Thank you to Plastim Ltd, Gloucester Ladies Who Latte members, Studio Fit Gloucester and Cheltenham, Waterstones Gloucester, Smyths Toystore, Save The Date Huge thanks to businesses and individuals who volunteered Officeworx, Generation Events, Gap Personnel, Fay Powell, Huntley Hairdressers, Allcooper, CCP, Simon Ellis, Baylis Vauxhall and Yvonne Denman of Wed 13 March Pied Piper Ladies Day Hospitality too – Tewkesbury Printing, Play Specialists from GRH Utility Warehouse for your kind donations. at Cheltenham Festival Children’s Centre, Boiswood LLP, Jelf, CGT Lettings, Tania Bowman and Mike Wilkinson – we raised over £4,000 on the Sat 16 March 80s Disco Night at Wotton Hall Club day! Sat 16 March Spring Concert at Rodmarton Village Hall School Stories Sun 7 April The first of this year’s NGS Open Gardens at Highnam Court In February – Valentine’s Day no less – we delivered a lovely red 23-26 April 999 Week – celebrate our emergency 7-seater vehicle to Paternoster School in Cirencester. With brilliant services! accessibility, the school’s new Seat Alhambra can be driven by any Sun 12 May Dragon Boat Regatta at Gloucester Docks teacher with a standard driving licence and allows more pupils to Sat 22 June Pied Piper Junior Aquathalon at Sandford gain access to the local community. Annette Fidderman, acting head teacher added: “Trips out of school form an important part of the Parks Lido curriculum allowing the school to offer a broad range of experiences, Sat 29 & The Pied Piper Summer Show which strengthen the skills they are learning in the classroom. The car Sun 30 June will enable the pupils to be a part of the wider community and the Fri 5 July Pied Piper Golf Day at Brickhampton Festive Fitness Fundraising Fun! wonderful opportunities it offers around the Cotswolds.” We offer Court Golf Complex The gym team at Sports Direct Fitness in Cheltenham raised our thanks to the Friends of Paternoster School for raising £4,000 over £300 with a festive workout morning, cake sale and raffle towards this vehicle, and to Severn Signs who kindly branded the car Sun 14 July Sportive - Entries now open! on the weekend before Christmas! A lovely community of for us too. gym-goers, we hope to work with them again for seasonal celebrations that raise awareness and funds for our cause. In January, Rachael visited Hopelands Preparatory School in Stonehouse to assist Millie, one of the pupils, in delivering an assembly. Millie was inspired to fundraise for The Pied Piper Appeal and Chamwell Centre Update - ‘Breaking Ground’ gave an excellent presentation to her peers. The school are all united in their efforts now, soon to With the final payment of £110,000 from Pied Piper’s £500,000 be getting involved in 999 Week, hosting cake sales and collecting stamps for us! pledge imminent, building work has begun on the Chamwell Centre! Expected to take around 18 months, the centre will A huge thank you to Milestone School for allowing us to use their main hall to host our Quiz Night offer a variety of inclusive activities for disabled children, this February, where the sponsors GB Solutions have gone ‘back to school’ with themed questions families and the local community. We’ll keep you updated as and an evening of fun competition. the build progresses. Crypt School in Gloucester are hosting a cake sale on 1st March to raise funds for The Pied Piper Appeal. As one of their nominated House Charities, we are delighted to be getting more involved Get Kitted Out in supporting the pupils as they co-ordinate fundraising activities themselves. Tee Off to Raise Thousands The office team have been working hard to secure us Brickhampton Court Golf Complex kindly hosts us again on some fabulous Pied Piper branded clothing in association Spotlight on Supporters Friday 5th July for our annual Golf Day. A brilliant day is with Raging Bull Sportswear. Look out for the range of always to be had, with outstanding hospitality, top-quality supporter items that will be available for anyone to buy We have been overwhelmed with support by so many golf, plenty of food and drink and many laughs! Teams are online from April. Every item purchased helps to raise local organisations this winter. Here are a few who’ve got on £325 to enter and we expect this to book up quickly, so funds. Buy and wear with pride! board in the last few months. contact the office to secure your space now! Season's Celebrations In early December, we welcomed in the festive spirit at a packed St Peter’s Church in Gloucester. Tireless supporters Maddie, Christine and Louise worked incredibly hard to coordinate a beautiful service. Thank you to St Peter’s Primary School, Stagecoach Performing Arts, soloist Rachel Kirby, Gloucester Cathedral Youth Choir and the Tewkesbury Town Band for performing on the night. A staggering £1,245.14 was raised; our biggest total to date at this annual event! Throwback To… This year marks our tenth anniversary of hosting a summer show. Originally the Gloucestershire Motor Show, the event has evolved over the years into a great day out for all the family. These are some of the photos from our very first show back in 2010 which was a huge success. Each year the event has grown bigger and better. Combining classic cars and attractions for petrolheads with a jam-packed live music and performance stage, a fashion, beauty and craft marquee, dedicated Kids Zone and activities throughout the day, the last weekend of June is well worth booking out your diary for. Held at the glorious Highnam Court on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th June, the Pied Piper Summer Show is our biggest event of the year and we are looking to raise upwards of £50,000 to put towards projects that help sick and disabled children in Gloucestershire. Pied Pi e pe h ANNIV R ER r T EA S Y A R 0 Y 1 With family tickets at just £25 or £10 per adult and £5 S 2 0 1 9 per child, it’s a great day out and all in aid of a good u w Saturday 29th & m ho cause. Keep an eye on piedpipersummershow.co.uk mer S Sunday 30th June for updates and information. How You Have Helped Thank You! Thank You! We rely very heavily on our team of wonderful volunteers who run turnstiles at Gloucester Rugby home games, bucket collect at Thanks to every single one of our supporters. With your support, we have other events in the county, do a variety of jobs in our Brockworth financed the following projects in the last few months: shop and serve teas and cakes at Highnam Court Open Garden events to name but a few. We couldn’t do any of it without you, so thank you! Paternoster School People Carrier £15,000 We also must thank the local business community and Milestone School Music Therapy with Gary £6,000 individuals who’ve chosen to support us with fundraising efforts and continue to do so. Here are a few of the last quarter’s Paediatric chronic ventilation training course for a GRH Nurse £267.30 highlights. Plastim Ltd donation to ‘A Tonne of Toys’ £1,000 Respiratory update training for two GRH paediatric nurses £731 Sir Thomas Rich’s School – supermarket bag packing £250 Mr and Mrs Talbot’s Christmas Light Display £2,100 Pied Piper Wish Holidays SEVEN FAMILY HOLIDAYS Gloucestershire Hauliers Association Dinner £2,500 Mr R Mather – in lieu of family Christmas gifts £250 Circle 2 Success Cheese Club raffle £333 Our Wish Holidays also continue to be extremely important and we have Specsavers Gloucester December fundraising £1,684 sent four families to Euro Disney, one to Malaga, one to Lanzarote and Charlie Sharples GRFC Testimonial Year £11,460 two families to Center Parcs to make lifelong memories.