NHC Pulse SpingSummer 2017-v3 FINAL VERSION

Special appeals – together
we can change lives
BIG Appeal goes
to the movies
If you are planning a trip to Showcase Cinema over the next few months you
will see Nottingham Children’s Hospital’s Robin mascot on the big screen!
In a short animated film, Robin takes you on a
whistle-stop tour of the Children’s Hospital and
shows how you can support the Charity’s BIG
Appeal to raise £3 million to help young patients.
The cartoon - showing at Nottingham’s Showcase Cinema
for the next six months – shows Robin trying out a whole
range of fundraising challenges, from skydiving to getting
in a bath of beans, all putting the “fun” into fundraising.
The BIG Appeal is raising funds for much-needed parent
and family accommodation, state of the art diagnostic
equipment, and life-saving research into
childhood illnesses.
If you’d like to show the short film at your
school, community group, organisation
or business, please call us on 0115 962 7905
or email charity@nuh.nhs.uk
Hayden gets on his bike for BIG Appeal
One parent getting behind the BIG Appeal is Hayden Whitehead, who is gearing up for a
24-hour, 300-mile Nottingham to Edinburgh cycle challenge in July, inspired by his son’s illness.
Hayden’s four-year-old son George
was diagnosed with leukaemia after
collapsing at playgroup in March last
year. He immediately required blood
and platelet transfusions along with
chemotherapy and is now on a
three-year programme of
chemotherapy, weekly home visits
from community nurses and frequent
visits to the Children’s Hospital.
Feeling helpless in the face of his
son’s diagnosis, Hayden decided to
raise money for Children’s Ward E39
and for Children’s Oncology Day care
where his son is treated. He has
already raised more than £9,300 of
his £10,000 target.
Hayden says: “Visiting Daycare
Oncology unit three to four times a
week has opened mine and my wife’s
eyes to the fantastic work all the staff
do. They are there 24 hours a day,
seven days a week helping children as
young as three months old battling
cancer and offering kind words of
support and encouragement to the
parents. We cannot change George’s
diagnosis but we can support the
ward where these brave babies,
toddlers, children, and teenagers
spend so much of their time in
treatment.”
If you would like to support the BIG
Appeal go to the Nottingham
Hospitals Charity’s donation page at
http://nottinghamhospitals
charity.org.uk/donate/ or call the
Charity team on 0115 962 7905 to
make a donation or to volunteer, or
you can Donate by Text by typing
‘NUHC13’ and your chosen
amount (£1, £2, £3, £4,
£5 or £10) into a text
message, and send it to
70070. For example,
write NUHC13 £5 to
donate £5
via text.
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