FUNDRAISING MAGAZINE ISSUE 31 2015 Michelle Joins Team Humphrey! page 11 A BIG Chairman’s Message to everyone Thank You is written by Welcome to your latest edition of Julie-Anne Weaver and edited Thank You with stories of what by Dawn Stone. our supporters have been doing If you have a story that you would to help us and how with their like to be considered for the next support, and yours, we have been issue please contact us on 0161 276 4522. able to help our hospitals. We have recently been able to celebrate hitting the target for our Bicentenary Appeal Contact Us for the Eye Hospital, which you can read more about on page 16. Our celebrity supporters Central Manchester Hospitals have also been lending a hand and I was NHS Foundation Trust (CMFT) Contents delighted to meet and welcome actress Charity Michelle Keegan to our team of supporters. We hope that you will continue to join us in our challenge to make a difference to patients By post: Jenny’s We hope that you enjoy reading all about and their families at our family of hospitals. 6 Pennies what has been going on and what we have Charity Office coming up. Later on you will be able to read Thank you Citylabs about the exciting changes that we will be Maurice Watkins CBE Maurice Watkins Building making to our newsletter in the future. Chairman, Charitable Fundraising Board Nelson Street Manchester, M13 9NQ 9 Jon’s Sahara Sizzler 0161 276 4522 About Our Charity By email: [email protected] www.cmftcharity.org.uk Michelle Keegan Central Manchester University Hospitals The charity has three main areas of work: www.rmchcharity.org.uk 11 Joins Team Humphrey NHS Foundation Trust (CMFT) Charity • to provide state-of-the-art equipment for Royal Manchester Children’s supports continuing excellence in diagnosis and treatment, over and above Hospital Charity treatment, research and care at: that which the NHS provides • Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Saint Mary’s Hospital Charity • to support research projects to improve our Christmas Carols • University Dental Hospital of Manchester understanding of illnesses 14 @RMCHcharity @StMarysHosp in the City • Manchester Royal Eye Hospital • to help to create an environment that’s • Manchester Royal Infirmary more friendly • Saint Mary’s Hospital • Trafford Hospitals – including Trafford 18 Wiggle for Women General, Altrincham General and Stretford Memorial hospitals 2 Thank You | Issue 31 | 2015 Thank You | Issue 31 | 2015 3 In the Community www.rmchcharity.org.uk In the Community The team presents Fantastic Festive Fun the cheque Thank you to everyone who supported us before, during and after the festive Way of the Roses season. We received lots of support and visits in the run up to Christmas, which really helped to put smiles on our patients faces, including: A group of 12 cyclists cycled 170 miles on the Way of the Roses route to help raise money for our laryngoscope project for use on the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Patron Brooke Vincent children’s hospital. joined us to switch on our Christmas lights The team, known as the Longlands Way of the Roses, started in Morecambe and battled against heavy rain to make their way to Skipton for their first pit stop. £13,000 Manchester City players visited the wards raised with gifts, and players Toure and Kompany They also cycled through York before crossing the finish line in sunny Bridlington, very tired but proud to have completed the three day challenge. The RAF flew Father joined patients in a table football tournament Christmas in by helicopter The team raised a staggering £13,000. to help spread festive cheer Salford Red Devils rugby players took time out to come and say hello and even donated £1,000 Graeme’s new do! Graeme Grows for Ward 84 Graeme Nesbit is renowned for taking care of his appearance and is known to visit the barbers on a weekly basis to keep Patrons John Thomson, Jason Done, George Sampson and Ian Puleston- his short dark hair in shape. So it came as a big surprise to Manchester United his friends and family when he decided to bleach and grow players handed out Davies visited the hospital to hand out gifts kindly donated by Sambro UK his hair for charity! presents to patients Over £2,600 Graeme was inspired after hearing about a colleague’s son raised being treated on Ward 84 at the children’s hospital. Family’s Fundraising Tops 100k Graeme raised over £2,600. You name it and it is likely that the So grateful were £82,000 friends and family of Sienna Malley Sienna’s family for raised have already done it to support the the lifesaving care Aimee Drew Trust service which saved their daughter’s life. she received from Together they have raised a staggering the NWTS team In 1997 Aimee Drew from Marple sadly passed away from £100,000 for the North West and North that they have a then unknown immune problem. Following her death, Wales Paediatric Transport Service been fundraising her family started raising money in her memory and The family hand their fundraising recently topped £82,000. (NWTS) which is based at the children’s to provide further over the cheque hospital. specialist equipment, for Aimee’s dad visited the hospital to celebrate the Sienna, now four, was just eight-months-old the modified ambulances ever since. The family achievement, which initially funded a specialist doctor, when she contracted the Swine Flu virus. fundraising has meant that the team have been Dr Peter Arkwright, to treat children with a range of immune Originally admitted to her local hospital, Sienna able to buy a ventilator, two training mannequins and allergic conditions. The post is now funded by the was so poorly she needed to be transferred to and a Sonosite - a portable machine enabling hospital but the family continue to support the service. Aimee’s dad Ian Drew presents a different hospital for specialist treatment, and doctors to place drips in infants for drug and the cheque to members of the the NWTS team looked after Sienna during her fluid therapy during transfer. Aimee’s family also recently found out the exact cause of immunology and bone marrow transplant teams transfer. Aimee’s disease thanks to a breakthrough by Dr Arkwright and colleagues working in Paris. 4 Thank You | Issue 31 | 2015 Text RMCH00 £5 to 70070 to donate to Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Thank You | Issue 31 | 2015 5 In the Community www.rmchcharity.org.uk www.rmchcharity.org.uk In the Community Over the past few months we have seen lots of schools Jenny’s Pennies across the region fundraising to support the children’s hospital. Here are highlights of just a few… Thank you to patient Jenny Lloyd and family who have raised over £17,000 for the children’s hospital over the Teachers last nine years. from Little Carleton Bollington C of St Hilda’s Jenny suffers from an extremely rare condition, known as C of E Primary Polyglandular Addison’s Disease. The condition means that E School took on the challenge of walking up School supported her body doesn’t produce the adrenaline needed to calm Snowdon to raise money the children’s hospital down when surprised or stressed, causing her to turn grey and for the Kabuki Fund at Saint by collecting at their vomit. Jenny’s illness means she is unable to climb mountains Mary’s Hospital. The money Christmas nativity was raised in memory of pupil plays raising or cycle long distances to raise money but this hasn’t stopped her Jenny and mum Amanda over £490. from fundraising. Hannah Scales and her mum joined the team Jenny’s fundraising began when her local cub group began to donate their spare to help raise over Pupils from two Great Harwood change from the tuck shop. This money was collected in a tin, which became £1,300. primary schools were inspired to raise known as Jenny’s Pennies. Since then Jenny has organised a Kylie Minogue Over funds for ward 84 following treatment Evening and a Christmas party for the children in her local community. She their friend Milly has been receiving £17,000 at the hospital. has arranged coffee and cake sales at church, organised raffles and even raised fundraised in her school lunch hour by selling a variety of handbags. Pupils at St Wulstan’s organised a Let’s Play Out of School cake sale which raised over £400 club in Davyhulme held whilst pupils from the Federation of St cake stalls, face painting, Hubert’s RC Primary School battled raffles, auctions and sports snow, rain and wind to complete a 10 activities across three days mile cycle along the Leeds Liverpool raising over £400. Canal to Blackburn to raise over £430. The team with consultant Sarah after 100 Miles for Daisy completing the ride In September, Steven Berry and a number of his friends cycled 100 miles as a thank you for treatment his Meet Lisa eight-month-old daughter, Daisy received at the hospital. We are delighted to welcome Lisa Humphreys, our new Daisy suffers from Pallister Killian Syndrome – a rare Schools Charity Officer, to our fundraising team. condition which affects only 30 children in the UK, so Steven and his team cycled from Wigan to the children’s hospital As a charity we find that young people of all ages – from and back on both a Saturday and Sunday to raise money for reception to sixth form – really engage with fundraising to Ward 77 at the hospital.