Thank You | Issue 22 - Royal Manchester Childrens Hospital Charity

ISSUE 22 2011 

INSIDE 

THIS ISSUE 

CHRISTMAS 

CHEER 

CELEBS 

GET A 

GRILLING 

SMALL 

CHANGE BIG 

DIFFERENCE 

IN THE 

COMMUNITY 

DUCK RACE 

PROJECT 

FOCUS

www.cmftcharity.org.uk 


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Contact Us 

Central Manchester University 

Hospitals NHS Foundation 

Trust (CMFT) Charity 

By post: 

The Lodge 

Oxford Road 

Manchester 

M13 9WL 

By post: 

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By email: charity.office@cmft.nhs.uk 


www.rmchcharity.org.uk 

Contents 

04 

Christmas round up 

 

05 small change 

big difference 

09 

Go Quackers in MAy 

10 TV’s THEO LENDS A 

HAND 

12 fashion aid 

14 

PROJECT FOCUS 

16 CELEBRITY GRILLING 

Chairman’s Message 

A New Year brings new challenges and goals. Our aim is to 

continue to ensure excellence in treatment, care and research 

at our family of five hospitals and to make a difference to our 

patients. 

In this issue you will read about what some of our supporters 

have been doing plus we will also be telling you about some of 

the projects you help to support. We are also asking for your 

help with a very important challenge that will see small change 

making a big difference to our patients and their families. 

As well as finding out the latest news in our newsletter you will 

soon be able to find out all our latest news on our brand new website at 

www.cmftcharity.org.uk which is due to launch this Spring. 

I do hope you enjoy this issue. 

With best wishes 

Maurice Watkins 

Chairman 

About the Charity 

Central Manchester University 

Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

(CMFT) Charity works hard to make a 

difficult time easier for young and old 

at our family of five hospitals. 

We support continuing excellence in 

treatment, care and research at: 

• Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital 

• University Dental Hospital of Manchester 

• Manchester Royal Eye Hospital 

• Manchester Royal Infirmary 

• Saint Mary’s Hospital 

The Charity has three main areas 

of work: 

• to support research projects to 

improve our understanding of illnesses 

• to help to create an environment that’s 

more friendly 

• to provide state-ofthe-art 

equipment 

for diagnosis and 

treatment 

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Christmas Round Up 

Celebrity Christmas Cheer 

Patients got an early Christmas treat when 

a number of our celebrity supporters 

visited the children’s hospital to hand 

out gifts. 

Gemma Atkinson, Terri Dwyer, Suzanne 

and Cole Page, Jason Manford and 

Antony Cotton 

spent time 

chatting with 

patients and 

their families 

and handing 

out toys kindly 

donated by the 

Disney Store 

in Manchester 

Arndale. 

Child’s Play 

Thank you to gamers from all over 

the world who kindly donated DVDs, 

computer games and consoles via the 

gamer’s charity, Child’s Play. 

Thanks to their generosity we received 

over £8,000 worth of products which 

will help to keep our young patients 

entertained. 

Raffle Results 

Thank you to everybody that supported 

CMFT Charity in the run up to Christmas 

by purchasing a ticket in our Grand 

Christmas Raffle. The raffle raised a 

fantastic £7,224. For a full list of winners, 

please visit www.rmchcharity.org.uk 

If you are one of our winners and have 

not yet claimed your prize, please get in 

touch by 29th April. 

United Helpers 

United players help to spread Christmas cheer by 

spending time with patients. 

Santa Flies By 

Thank you to the RAF 

for kindly bringing 

Santa and his elves to 

hand out gifts in the 

children’s hospital in 

the run up to the festive 

season. 

As Santa’s reindeer 

were resting ready for 

the big day, the RAF 

kindly flew Santa 

past the outdoor play 

area so he could wave 

goodbye to our patients. 

Patient Daniel with Santa 

and one of his elves. 

Big Thanks 

A big thank you to the many community 

groups, individuals and companies who 

kindly performed, visited and donated 

presents to our hospitals. Your support 

during the festive season is greatly 

appreciated and really helps to put a 

smile on the faces of our patients. 

Small Change 

Big Difference 

This year we are asking our supporters to really 

get behind us by donating small change to help 

us make a big difference to our hospitals and the 

patients we treat. 

When it comes to fundraising many people feel 

that unless they are able to make a large donation 

they are unable to make a difference: this campaign 

aims to dispel that myth because as the old saying 

goes, look after the pennies and the pounds take care of 

themselves. 

Here at RMCH Charity we are grateful for any donations 

that we receive and recognise, that collectively, pennies 

and small change can soon add up to really help make a 

difference to our patients. 

Over the coming year we are looking to 

place 500 collection tins throughout the 

North West and we need your help to do 

so. When filled with spare change, a 

collection tin, on average, holds around £30 

and if 500 tins were filled twice a year it 

would raise a whopping £30,000! 

If you know a shop or business in your local 

community that may be willing to provide a home 

for one of our collection tins, or if you could spare 

a few hours a week to contact local organisations 

to see whether they will take a collection tin 

on our behalf, please contact a member of the 

Charity team on 0161 276 4522. 

Together we can 

make a difference. 

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In the Community 

Jenny’s Pennies 

14-year-old Jenny from Prestwich continues to work 

hard to make a difference by fundraising for research 

into endocrine diseases at the children’s hospital. Jenny 

supports research as she was diagnosed with a rare 

endocrine condition, which means that her body could 

begin to shut down if she receives a shock. 

To date, Jenny has raised over £13,000 through music 

evenings, coffee stalls, Christmas parties and her latest 

venture of selling new bags. In addition her brother 

Thomas recently proved he had a head for heights by 

taking part in a skydive and donated his sponsorship 

towards his sister’s fundraising efforts. 

Louisa presents consultant 

Naomi Davis with a cheque 

for her Both Feet Forward 

Fund at the hospital. 

It all went Swimmingly! 

Congratulations to 11-year-old Louisa on completing a 

sponsored swim at Walkden Pool (Fit City) in Salford. 

Louisa, who is a pupil at Manchester High School for Girls, 

decided to swim 64 lengths, the equivalent of one mile, 

following what she calls a ‘eureka moment’ on a bus! 

Louisa raised over £38 which has been donated to 

support children with clubfoot. 

The Aimee Drew Trust 

Ian Drew of the Aimee Drew Trust recently met with 

Dr Arkwright to recognise the fundraising achieved by the 

Aimee Drew Trust over the years. The Trust was set up in 

memory of Aimee who had a rare immunology condition and 

sadly lost her battle with lymphoma in 1997. 

Since forming, shortly after Aimee’s death, the Aimee Drew 

Trust has held many events including an ‘Allo ‘Allo themed 

evening, head shaves and a 70s night to fundraise to 

support the immunology department at the hospital. 

The Trust has raised over £70,000 which has helped to 

support research and the purchase of new equipment, such 

as infusion pumps for use in the immunology clinic at the hospital. 

Jenny sells her bags to help 

make the pennies add up! 

Ian presents the cheque to 

immunology staff, including Dr 

Arkwright, to mark the achievement 

of the Aimee Drew Trust. 

Corrie Come Dine with Me 

Patron and former Coronation Street star Tupele 

Dorgu recently appeared on Channel 4’s Come 

Dine with Me Coronation Street special. 

Tupele, who played Kelly Crabtree in the soap, 

was joined by Phil Middlemiss (Des Barnes), 

Julie Goodyear (Bet Lynch) and Ken Morley (Reg 

Holdsworth) for four nights of fine dining. 

Despite cooking up a treat for her guests, it was 

Phil who took the crown and showed himself to 

be a true gent by splitting the £1,000 winnings 

between each contestant for their chosen charity, with 

Tupele donating her share to the children’s hospital. 

Ruby’s Winter Walk 

After hearing that the daughter of a friend was 

undergoing treatment on Ward 84 at the children’s 

hospital for a rare type of cancer called 

Rhabdomyosarcoma, Jamie Whittaker decided to use 

his legs to support the work of the ward and organise a 

fundraiser in honour of Ruby, now 19-months-old. 

After placing a post on Facebook and receiving lots 

of messages from people wishing to get involved, Jamie 

organised ‘Ruby’s Winter Walk’. Jamie was joined by a staggering 600 well 

wishers and supporters to walk four miles on a very cold winter’s morning. 

Even comic Jason Manford, who is related to Ruby’s mum Adele, got involved. 

The walk that started and ended in Debdale Park in Gorton raised over £16,000. 

100 Miles for Franky 

Dave Dean and friends recently ran 25 

miles-a-day over four days to raise money for 

the children’s hospital in memory of Dave’s son 

Franky who died in 2008, aged two. 

The group started in Blackpool and crossed 

the finish line 100 miles later in Manchester’s 

Whitworth Park, close to the children’s hospital. 

Thanks to their hard work and determination, 

Dave and his friends have raised over £8,200 

to date and the money is still coming in! 

Jason Manford with 

organiser Jamie, 

Ruby and family. 

The runners mark their achievement by 

posing for a celebratory picture! 

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Carol and Marilyn present 

Humphrey with the cheque. 



Hoedown Raises £2,700 

Sneaky Moon Line Dancing Club members Carol 

Bates and Marilyn Bailey recently visited Royal 

Manchester Children’s Hospital to present a cheque 

for the proceeds of their line dance fundraiser held 

at the John Alker Ex-Serviceman’s Club in Flixton. 

The duo presented a cheque for over £2,700, 

raised by the Urmston-based club, to Royal 

Manchester Children’s Hospital Charity mascot 

Humphrey. The line dancing evening was organised 

by Carol and Marilyn along with fellow member 

Lorraine Kennedy. 

Winning Our Hearts and Minds 

Over £25,000 was raised for the cardiology unit at the children’s 

hospital recently thanks to the fantastic efforts of three friends 

fundraising under the banner ‘Hearts and Minds’. 

The Hearts and Minds challenge saw many events taking place 

including a golf day and a bike ride that saw participants cycling 

400 miles from Mizen Head – the most southern point in Ireland 

– to the most northern point, Malin Head, in just four days. 

Cyclists celebrate with 

Keith Duffy. 

The 2010 challenge came to a close with a celebration charity ball 

held at Lancashire County Cricket Ground’s, The Point, which was attended by over 

700 guests. 

More events are planned for 2011, with the hope of beating last year’s total! 

To find out more visit www.heartsandmindschallenge.org 

Celebrate and Donate 

We have recently launched ‘Give in Celebration’ cards, which are a personal, 

meaningful way of thanking your guests for celebrating your special occasion. 

Suitable for place settings at weddings, civil partnerships, christenings or any other 

celebration, the personalised cards show that the host has made a donation to the 

children’s hospital instead of a more traditional ‘favour’ or small gift for their guest. 

For those hosts who wish to give their guest a keepsake to remind them of their 

donation, children’s hospital pin badges or ‘trolley’ key rings may be purchased 

from the Charity team and attached to the cards. 

For more information or for an order form, please visit our website, 

www.rmchcharity.org.uk, or contact the Charity team on 0161 276 4522. 


Go 

quackers 

for Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Charity 

at Bramhall and Woodford Rotary Club’s 

Duck Race 

and family fun day 

Upcoming Events Not to be Missed 

08 May Duck Race 

11 May Teddy Toddle 

14 May Mini/Junior 

Manchester run 

15 May Great Manchester Run 

Bramhall Park, 12pm - 4pm 

Sunday 8 th May 2011 

To sponsor a duck or find out more visit www.rmchcharity.org.uk 

or www.bwrotary.org.uk or call the Charity team on 0161 276 4522. 

80% of the funds raised will directly benefit Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital 

Charity. The remaining 20% will be used to support other Rotary charities. 

18 September Great North Run 

14 October Wear what u want 

day 

26 October PJ DAY 

To find out more about any of our events, or for new additions to our events calendar, 

visit www.rmchcharity.org.uk or www.cmftcharity.org.uk 




TV’s Theo Lends a Hand 

TV personality and BBC dragon Theo Paphitis is once 

again backing a campaign that asks small to medium-sized 

businesses to support the children’s hospital by getting 

involved in the Many Hands Campaign. 

Theo joined over 100 guests at the campaign launch which 

was hosted by BBC presenter and journalist, Ranvir Singh 

at Room Restaurant in Manchester. Theo took to the 

stage to ask companies to ‘think outside the box’ in the 

challenge to each raise £1,000 over the next 12 months 

and to tell guests how by coming together they can be 

part of something special which will directly benefit 

patients at the hospital. 

As well as offering great networking opportunities 

to the companies taking part, the campaign is also 

offering ‘Many Handers’ the chance to enter the Many 

Hands Award, with the winner receiving one day’s free 

coaching from leading business coach Nick Robinson, 

as well as the opportunity to meet with Theo. 

In the current economic climate we know it can be hard 

for businesses to make the impact they want to a charity – 

the Many Hands Campaign is a great way for companies to 

come together and fundraise towards one goal. 

The campaign is kindly being supported by 

thebusinessdesk.com, Journey9 and Montpelier 

Chartered Accountants - leading advisers to SMEs. 

To find out how you can get involved in the 

Many Hands Campaign, or to learn more 

about the Many Hands Award, log onto 

www.rmchcharity.org.uk/manyhands 

Thank You 

Thank you to the many companies 

including Bruntwood, Blemain 

Group, PJH Group and Momentum 

who kindly donated toys and gifts to 

our patients over the festive period. 

Chairman Maurice Watkins with 

host Ranvir Singh and BBC dragon 

Theo Paphitis. 

Guests had the chance to 

network before the event began. 

Happy birthday Barry! 

Heaton Mersey-based hairdresser 

Barry Jones celebrated his 21st 

anniversary by kindly fundraising for 

the children’s hospital. 

Barry raised over £2,300. 

Patrick Viera, Carlos Tevez and 

Joe Hart are given a musical 

master class by patients Riley 

and Jack. 

Players are joined by Humphrey, 

Charity Chairman Maurice Watkins, 

City Chief Executive Garry Cook 

and club mascot Moonbeam, to 

officially open the play area. 

Stockport Law Society 

A Stockport Law Society Dinner has 

helped to make a difference to patients 

at the children’s hospital. 

Manchester crime writer Bill Rogers 

spoke at the dinner held at the 

Alma Lodge in Stockport. 

With items including 

a Sale Sharks 

hospitality package 

and a meal at 


restaurant San Carlo 

up for grabs in the 

auction, the evening 

raised over £1,300. 

Manchester City Players Play Out 

City stars and officials got the chance to see firsthand the 

difference that the Club’s support has made to patients at 

Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital when they visited 

the hospital for the official opening of the Manchester City 

Football Club-funded outdoor play area. 

Carlos Tevez, Patrick Vieira and Joe Hart joined patients 

and their families at the hospital for a party in the new 

play area, which was formally opened by Manchester 

City FC Chief Executive Garry Cook and Maurice 

Watkins, Chairman of Royal Manchester Children’s 

Hospital Charity’s Fundraising Board. 

The opening also provided the perfect opportunity for 

Manchester City to announce that the children’s hospital 

would continue to receive support from the Club and 

their fans in the 2010/11 season, as one of the Club’s 

nominated charities. 

The Club has pledged to donate 

£25,000 to fund the production of an 

animated DVD which will be used as 

a tool to prepare patients and their 

families about what to expect when 

they are preparing for a planned 

stay at the hospital. 

www.mcfc.co.uk 

Stockport Law Society 

with a cheque for £1,300. 

New Partnerships Announced 

We are delighted to announce that two 

new companies have chosen to support 

the children’s hospital by signing up 

as corporate partners over the next 

12 months. 

Sainsbury’s HR Shared Services and 

Gorvins Solicitors are now busy organising 

a programme of staff fundraising events 

as well as encouraging staff to take part 

in the Great Manchester Run to help us to 

continue to support excellence in treatment, 

care and research at the hospital. 

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Fashion Aid 

Thanks to the hard work of staff from GAP, Marks & 

Spencer, John Lewis and The Trafford Centre the first ever 

charity boutique was a resounding success. 

The exclusive boutique – named Fashion Aid – was open 

for one weekend only at The Trafford Centre, and offered 

shoppers the chance to grab a bargain from leading 

retailers who had kindly donated clothes and accessories. 

With items such as Cath Kidston bags up for grabs, 

the store raised over £10,000 which GAP very kindly 

match funded resulting in over £21,000 being donated 

to the hospital. 

Premex Donates 

Premex employee Hayley Davies said thank you recently for 

treatment her son has been receiving at Royal Manchester 

Children’s Hospital. Hayley’s son has a rare condition, known as 

congenital hyperinsulinism, which causes low blood sugars in 

babies and children. 

Hayley wanted to thank the Northern Congenital Hyperinsulinism 

Service (NORCHI), based at the hospital, by raising money to help 

make a difference to other patients with the same condition. 

Over the course of 2010, Premex employees organised a number 

of events and raised over £1,920 which the company has match 

funded meaning that a fantastic total of £3,840 has been donated. 

www.premexservices.co.uk 

Bruntwood Beat Their Pledge 


Hayley and her son present 

a cheque to Corporate 

Fundraising Manager Jenny 

Clarke and staff nurse 

Lindsey Rigby. 

Bruntwood, the family-owned commercial property 

company, have donated £510,000 to Royal 

Manchester Children’s Hospital Charity, smashing 

their original target of £500,000. 

In 2005, the staff of Bruntwood made a pledge to raise 

£500,000 for Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and, 

over the last five years, with the support of their suppliers 

and customers, have been working hard to achieve this goal. 

They have undertaken a wide variety of activities including 

cycling over 25,000 miles, baking cakes, swapping clothes 

and jumping out of airplanes, to mention but a few, 

to meet this target. 

www.bruntwood.co.uk 


Teddy 

Toddle 

Over 30 nurseries and play groups from across the 

region took part in our 2010 Teddy Toddle, which saw 

two lucky groups receiving a visit from Humphrey. 

Each organisation that registered to take part in the 

short sponsored walk was entered into a free prize draw 

to win a visit from our mascot Humphrey with Brinnington 

Sure Start Children’s Centre in Stockport and Rockwood 

Nursery School in Burnley being the lucky winners. 

Humphrey visited both nurseries, walking round Brinnington Park in Stockport and 

then joining in the fun with the different nursery classes in Burnley. 

Thank you to all of the nurseries, crèches and play groups that took part 

and helped us to raise over £7,250. 

Teddy Toddle is now back for a second year and you can join in the fun of a short 

sponsored walk to help us make a difference to our patients. 

We are once again asking nurseries, crèches and play groups to get involved by 

organising their very own short sponsored walk for toddlers and pre schoolers on 

or around Wednesday 11 May. 

Any organisation that registers to take part in The Teddy Toddle before 15 April 

will be entered in to a free prize draw to receive a visit from Humphrey on Teddy 

Toddle Day. 

All organisations and groups that register, regardless of date, will receive a free 

Teddy Toddle pack which will include stickers, sponsor forms, balloons and 

certificates, as well as activity sheets for hildren. 

If you are unable to take part in or organise your own 

Teddy Toddle then why not 

pop along to the Charity’s 

very own Teddy Toddle at 

The Trafford Centre on 

Saturday 14 May. 

To find out more please 

contact a member of 

the Charity team on 

0161 276 4522 or visit 


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Project Focus 

Home from Home at Saint Mary’s 

We are supporting a project to 

refurbish the Midwifery Led Unit 

(MLU) at Saint’s Mary’s Hospital to 

provide women with a more homelike 

environment. Research amongst 

our patients suggests that although 

women choose to have their baby 

in hospital they want a more “homefrom-home 

environment”. 

Evidence also suggests the homelike 

environment is associated with 

less need for pain relief in labour, 

less medical intervention and greater 

satisfaction with care. 

Our aim is to soften the environment 

with textures and lighting to make 

the rooms less clinical and more 

warm and inviting. We are also raising 

money to purchase an additional 

Birthing Pool 

birthing pool to give more patients the 

option to birth in water. 

We are also hoping to purchase 

additional equipment for the MLU 

such as birthing balls, birthing bean 

bags, supportive seats, a birthing 

studio, additional TENS machines and 

birth couches. 

The total cost of improving the 

environment and providing additional 

equipment to make labour as 

comfortable as possible for women 

and their partners is £43,487. 

If you would like to know more about 

what this money will buy and how you 

can really help us to make a difference 

please contact a member of the 

Charity team on 0161 276 4522 or visit 


Birthing Balls 

Water Aids Recovery 

The therapy and dietetic department at the children’s hospital provides up-to-date 

specialist services to children and young people throughout the North West with 

varying abilities. One of the areas within this speciality is the Hydrotherapy area 

which helps a child’s rehabilitation and recovery following injury or illness and 

provides therapeutic procedures. 

We would like to ensure that our first class paediatric Hydrotherapy area is provided 

in a child-friendly environment that creates a feeling of wellbeing, calm and fun 

whilst also helping recovery and lessen the stress associated with being ill. 

We want to make the Hydrotherapy pool area more child-friendly using visual and 

audio techniques from water and aquarium-themed art work to sound art. Providing 

rehabilitation in a less clinical environment will aid a child in their treatment making 

it more interactive and improving the delivery of care to children with complex 

medical and social needs. 

An illustration of how the 

unit could look. 

With the help of charitable donations we will be able to equip this area 

with the latest therapeutic lighting, visuals and sound technology. 

Our vision for how this unit could look can be seen in the 

images at the top of this page. The cost of ensuring our young 

patients benefit even more from this specialised treatment 

in a less clinical environment is £300,000. 

Breathe Easy 

Thanks to a donation from the 

Freddie McGuire Trust, patients on 

the paediatric intensive care unit are 

already benefiting from a piece of 

equipment that provides respiratory 

support, helping us to provide the right 

care at the right time to critically ill 

children. 

The Optiflow is a non-invasive piece of 

equipment that administers humidified 

oxygen at pressure to children or 

babies via a face-mask or nasal 

cannula (tube into the nose). 

To find out more about how you can get involved and 

support the Hydrotherapy project please contact a 

member of the Charity team on 0161 276 4522. 

This form of respiratory support helps 

to reduce the irritation of the airways 

plus, compared to other ventilators 

there is less equipment around the 

patient lessening the psychological 

and emotional stress for our patients 

and their families. 

The Optiflow 

also helps to 

make feeding and 

cuddles easier, all 

helping to make 

a difference to 

the treatment and 

care our critically ill 

patients receive. 

Staff nurse with the Optiflow. 

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Celebrities Got a Grilling 

Saint Mary’s Hospital 

Mr Aziz officially opens 

the sitting room. 

Celebrity Grilling: The Sequel, hosted by Angus Deayton, 

saw two celebrity teams going head-to-head to cook 

signature dishes, shake things up behind the bar and 

serve up a unique experience to guests at Restaurant 

Bar and Grill in Manchester. As well as trying to impress 

guests with their skills, the two teams had to meet 

the approval of celebrity Head Chef, Something for the 

Weekend’s, Simon Rimmer. 

Actor John Thomson captained Team Fork, which also 

included Hollyoaks stars Nick Pickard and Ashley Taylor-Dawson, Coronation 

Street stars Samia Smith and Brooke Vincent and former Hollyoaks actress 

and TV presenter Terri Dwyer. 

But it was former England and Liverpool footballer John Barnes who led Team 

Knife to victory on the night! John was joined by Sale Sharks and Welsh Rugby 

International Dwayne Peel, fellow Sale Sharks and England Rugby International 

Charlie Hodgson, Bolton Wanderers footballer Ivan Klasnić, Blackburn Rovers 

footballer David Dunn and Hollyoaks stars Jessica Fox and Rachel Hassan. On the 

night John was also offered £1,000 to perform his famous World in Motion rap – and 

he didn’t disappoint. The former Liverpool winger rose to the challenge and helped 

the event to raise more than £50,000 for the children’s hospital. 

Thanks also to patron Cole Page for providing the 

pre dinner entertainment and Key 103’s Mike Toolan 

and Hugh Ferris who really got the auction going. 

Team Knife 

Chairman Maurice Watkins 

helps soap stunners prepare 

for battle. 

Team Fork 

Aziz Family’s Gift to NICU 

Thanks to the Aziz family the new parents sitting 

room on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at 

Saint Mary’s Hospital is a welcoming and homely 

place to take a break from the unit and to chat to 

other parents who have a child in the unit. 

Alizay Aziz was treated on the unit so the family held a fundraising birthday 

party. After speaking to the family support group they decided to buy comfy 

leather sofas, lamps, pictures and shelves with the money they had raised. 

Bag Packing for Neonatal 

Sally Barber and colleagues from the neonatal intensive care unit developmental care 

team decided to go the extra mile recently to make a difference to their patients. 

The group organised a Sunday bag pack at Tesco in Portwood to raise money towards 

developmental equipment. 

After helping shoppers to fill their bags they raised over £460 which will be used to 

buy positioning aids such as a snuggle up nest which gives tiny babies the type of 

boundaries that they had in the womb. 

Supporter’s Letter 

Dear Charity Team 

Our grandson was born 10 weeks premature at Saint Mary’s Hospital. Without the 

specialist care given to him by the unit, both before and long after his birth, along 

with much love, he would not be the thriving baby boy he is today. My husband 

recently celebrated his 65th birthday and, as a thank you, asked for donations to the 

unit instead of gifts. 

The amount raised is just a small thank you to all the wonderful staff who gave so 

much support, love and care to our family during those long weeks of worry and 

anxiety. 

Many Thanks 

Mr and Mrs Johnson 

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University Dental Hospital of Manchester 

Jive Night Raises £600 

A jive night at Sale Masonic Hall helped to raise money for the children’s Cleft Lip 

and Palate service at the dental hospital. 

The event, organised by the It’s Only Rock and Roll group saw around 150 guests 

enjoying a 50s night with a live performance from Colin Paul and the Persuaders. 

Following an auction, including a jive shirt that went for a £100, donations from the 

group and Colin Paul donating the proceeds from the sale of his CD on the night, 

the event raised over £600. 

Jivers Then Got on Their Bikes 

Plus, nine family and friends of singer Colin Paul decided 

to take on the challenge of a Manchester to Blackpool 

bike ride. After cycling 64 miles the group raised over 

£700 with pedal power for the Cleft Lip and Palate fund. 

Despite finding it hard going, the group are thinking about 

doing it all again, hoping to beat their times from last year! 

Manchester Royal Eye Hospital 

The bike riders in Blackpool 

after cycling 64 miles 

to get there. 

Infants’ Charity Fun Run 

Around 150 pupils from Stamford Park Infant School in Hale took to the school field on a 

bright Sunday morning recently to help raise money for Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. 

As a thank you for treatment one of their Year 2 pupils received at the hospital, the school 

and its parent support group decided to ask pupils to raise sponsorship to take part in 

their annual fun run. 

After each year group completed ten laps of the 

school field, pupils were awarded a certificate of 

achievement. Thanks to their fun run 

fundraising the school raised over 

£900 for the eye hospital. 


Royal Infirmary 

All Aboard! 

Madeline Kelly, the daughter of 

a patient on the cardiac ward at 

Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) 

nominated the ward to be one of seven 

beneficiaries of the Orient Express Northern Belle Charity Dinner. 

The seven carriages on the Northern Belle train each represented one of the chosen 

charities and it was the Duart Carriage in support of the MRI that sold out first. 

Passengers departed from Manchester and Crewe, enjoying spectacular cuisine 

with a sumptuous five course dinner and elegant entertainment, helping to raise 

over £3,000 for the cardiac ward. 

Members of the CALLM Fund 

Committee strike a pose after 

setting up the raffle table. 

Consultant Mr McLaughlin accepts the 

donation from Madeline and Thomas Kelly. 

Butterfly Ball Spreads its Wings 

The inaugural Butterfly Ball held in support of Ward 

44’s CALLM (Caring for Adults with Leukaemia, 

Lymphoma and Myeloma) Fund at Manchester 

Royal Infirmary was a huge success with over 

70 guests attending the event at the Thistle 

Hotel in Manchester. 

After a bucks fizz reception, guests took part 

in a guess the weight of the giant cupcake 

competition for a chance to win a Pandora 

bracelet and the very same giant cupcake! 

With two corrects answers being guessed the 

winner was decided by a ‘dance off’ with hip 

wiggling and strange dance moves. 

The Butterfly Ball, along with challenge 

events and support from Ward 44 patients, 

has helped to raise over £10,000 which will 

be used to improve the patient experience 

on the ward. 

Pupils having fun in the fun run! 

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To make a donation simply select the amount you wish to donate and send your donation and 

completed voucher to: Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Charity, 

The Lodge, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL 

Please find a cheque enclosed for: £5 £10 £25 Other Amount £ 

I would like my donation to support: 

Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Charity 

Manchester University Dental Hospital Charity 

Manchester Royal Eye Hospital Charity 

Manchester Royal Infirmary Hospital Charity 

Saint Mary’s Hospital Charity 

Please note here if you would like your gift to support a particular ward, project or department 

within the hospital 

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Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Charity will reclaim on 

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