Cots for Tots

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@Noahs_Ark_Zoo You can catch these giant slacks in the Play Barn from Thursday 21 to Wednesday 27 May. Keep an eye out for where they’ll pop up next as we approach the most unfashionable fundraising event of the year. 🩷 link.grandappeal.org.uk/wtd

Bigger than the elephants... Taller than the giraffes... Something huge has come to town! 👖 Pop in to @Noahs_Ark_Zoo to see the giant pair of cheesy trousers that have been installed to celebrate the upcoming Wallace & Gromit’s Wrong Trousers Day on Friday 19 June. 🎉

Thanks to your kind donations, we gifted kangaroo-themed books and cards to families on St Michael’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). We hope that NICU families enjoyed their gifts and took part in some kangaroo care with their little ones. 🫂

Last week, premature babies and their families celebrated Kangaroo Care Awareness Day. 🦘🩷 This day promotes Kangaroo Care – or skin-to-skin contact - between sick babies and their parents.

It’s officially ONE MONTH TO GO until Wallace & Gromit’s Wrong Trousers Day. 🤪👖 link.grandappeal.org.uk/wtd 👈 Join us on Friday 19 June and wear your worst trousers for a cracking cause. Simply donate what you can for the right to dress WRONG. ❌

📖 Read Reid’s story here: link.grandappeal.org.uk/reid

But as soon as Rebecca met the Southwest Neonatal Advice and Retrieval Service (SoNAR), who blue-lighted Reid to Bristol, they set her mind at ease. Rebecca explained how this calm, kind and attentive team helped her family navigate the most difficult day of their lives. 🩷

After Rebecca’s baby, Reid, had a heart attack, she was terrified to hear that he needed to be rushed from Gloucester to St Michael’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in Bristol. 🏥 Reid had gone 40 minutes without oxygen and was in an extremely fragile condition.

Don’t miss your chance to be a part of the SOLD OUT Cardiff Half on Sunday 4 October when you claim one of our remaining charity places. 😎 rebrand.ly/kx12v1w Claim your charity spot today before they’re snapped up! 💨

Can we take a moment to talk about this weekend? This feeling is staying with us for a while! 🏅 More than 70 Grand Appeal and Cots for Tots runners took on the 10k, and another 70 ran the Half Marathon.💪 Put your hands together for our 2026 Great Bristol Run heroes.👏

We’re wishing the best of luck to everyone taking on the Great Bristol Run alongside Anka. Feel good knowing you’re doing a great thing for poorly children across the South West. 🥰

On Sunday, Anka will be taking on her first 10k to thank St Michael’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Bristol Children’s Hospital for saving her baby’s life. 🩷 Read Anka’s story here: link.grandappeal.org.uk/jn8mlgq

Good news for anyone who missed out on a place in our Three Peaks Challenge... A NEW DATE HAS BEEN ADDED! 🎉 link.grandappeal.org.uk/threepeaks Join us from Saturday 3 to Monday 5 October. 🗓️ Sign up today and receive a whopping 15% discount with the code: SAVETIME.

Thank you to Barnaby’s mum, Tash, for sharing this wonderful Easter throwback of him in his bunny-ears hat. 🫶

Finding Easter treats placed on top of his incubator, along with a selection of handmade hats, clothes and blankets, made an already emotional moment even more special. Cots for Tots is proud to support families in NICU by helping them celebrate these precious milestones.

Easter can look very different for families with babies in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU). 🩷 For Tash and her family, last Easter at St Michael’s NICU marked a huge milestone. It was the very first day their baby, Barnaby, was able to fit into his baby clothes.

Wallace & Gromit’s Wrong Trousers Day is BACK on Friday 19 June. 📆👖 link.grandappeal.org.uk/wtdli-2025👈 P.S. This year officially marks 30 years of Wallace & Gromit’s Wrong Trousers Day, so keep your eyes peeled for exciting goings on in the lead up to the big day.👀

➡️ Every mile Ellie runs helps provide critical support to sick babies, children and their families when they need it most. You can support Ellie’s three-marathon challenge here: link.grandappeal.org.uk/Ellie

For families with a child in PICU, being far away from home brings extra worries. Thanks to fundraising heroes like Ellie, The Grand Appeal can provide family accommodation, as fund specialist equipment, and art, music and play therapy.

Meet Ellie, a fundraising hero and nurse on the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Bristol Children's Hospital. 💙 PICU is where children from across the South West come when they need life-saving care, often arriving suddenly and miles from home.