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| Teddies for Loving Care in Minor Injury Units - 17 January 2012The following has been received from Wendy, Lead ENP at Tetbury Hospital:
"The teddies scheme is extremely popular with the under 6 boys and under 10 girls, they love them I have had several phone calls, letters and pictures the children have drawn of the teddy in their new homes.
On a more serious note they are a great distraction for the children who need treatment, especially if the treatment is not that nice
But all children are nervous how ever small the injury and it really helps to break the ice
Thank you on behalf of them and from myself and my staff" |
| Grand Charity hand out more than £1 million - 26 December 2011The latest grants from the Freemasons' Grand Charity have been announced. These include:
Home-Start, £64,000
Place2Be (Leeds), £50,000
Red Cross (West Wales), £50,000
Youth at risk (Sunderland), £30,000
Who Cares? Trust, £30,000
Apprentice Stonemason, Worcester Cathedral (£25,000)
Skill Force (Bournemouth), £50,000
Epilepsy Society, £38,000
Smantha Dickson Brian Tumour Trust, £30,000
Tommy's, £40,000
Prostate Cancer research (University of East Anglia), £50,000
Hereford Cathedral, £5,000
More details available at www.grandcharity.org read more ... |
| GCF Freemasons Fund Grants - 11 November 2011The first Gloucestershire organisations to receive grants from the GCF Freemasons Fund in November 2011 have been announced.
These include:
Parry Hall Pensioners Club, Tredworth (£750)
Gloucestershire Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre (£800)
Thornbury & District Stroke Support Club (£1700)
The Family Haven, Gloucester (£2000)
Victoria Centre, Lydney (£2000)
Drybrook Helping Hands Club (£2000)
Headway Cotswold Trust (£2000)
Dean Forest Hospice (£2000)
Forest Pulse, Coleford (£2000)
Castle Gate Family Trust (£1815)
Gloucestershire Chest Fund (£2000)
Coopers Edge Community Group (£2000)
Age UK South Gloucestershire (£1848)
The partnership between Gloucestershire Freemasons and the Gloucestershire Community Foundation has enabled many small local charities to be supported in their valuable work in communities across the County.
For future grant applications see: www.gloucestershirecommunityfoundation.co.uk
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Gloucestershire Freemasons Pilot “Teddies for Loving Care”
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Teddies for Loving Care is a charity run by Freemasons with the purpose of supplying Teddy Bears to Minor Injury Units and Emergency Departments. The Teddies are given to young patients who attend the hospitals suffering from distress or trauma to help to comfort them when they are at their most frightened.
Adrian Davies (centre) pictured with Patient Holly Toop, Mark Smith and Wendy Hadfield
The Provincial Grand Master for Gloucestershire Adrian F R Davies JP accompanied by the Provincial Grand Almoner Mark Smith recently attended Tetbury Hospital and handed over the first delivery of Teddy Bears to the Lead Emergency Nurse Practitioner, Wendy Hadfield.
He said “There can be fewer distressing sights or sounds than that of a child who is admitted to hospital in pain and is frightenend. We hope that our small gift of a teddy bear will help to ease the initial pain and trauma of the injury or illness”.
Tetbury was selected as the pilot hospital because of the staff’s enthusiasm for the scheme and also as a fitting tribute to Phillip Bayley-Brown a Tetbury member who championed the scheme in Gloucestershire and who sadly died following a long illness shortly before delivery of the first bears.
It is envisaged that over the next twelve months “Teddies for Loving Care” will be introduced into other Hospitals across Gloucestershire. |
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