Local Co-operative Supermarket at Pottington Industrial Estate has raised a phenomenal £2,360 for the Special Care Baby Unit Appeal, taking their magnificent total to £4,530 over the past two years.

Co-op Manager Nigel Price said “The team have organised lots of fundraising activities including a quiz, book sales, Nissan Garage gave a donation and the amazing support of our customers.  Our customers have been fabulous”.

Deputy SCBU Ward Manager Charlotte Woollacott cares for our babies on the Unit and said “This incredible amount of money will help us purchase much needed equipment for our Special Care Baby Unit to care for all the vulnerable babies that we treat on the unit.”

L-R:  Fundraiser Julie Whitton, Co-op Manager Nigel Price, Co-op Asst Simon Tout, and Yvonne Lovelock and in front Kerry Bailey

The Park Community School organised a School Concert and raised an amazing £400 for the Special Care Baby Unit Appeal. The money raised from the concert by these talented students will enable us purchase much needed equipment for the Special Care Baby Unit.

Head of Music, Matthew Street, organised the event in aid of the SCBU Appeal as his wife is due to give birth to twins in the coming months. We wish them both the very best for the future.

L-R Ryan Adamson (music technician), Year 11 students Alfie Stone, Alison Bell and Jasmin Husband, Lorraine Gutteridge (music teacher), Julie Whitton (Over and Above fundraising officer) and Matthew Street (Head of Music)

The Caroline Thorpe Ward has received an amazing £600, which was raised by Steven Bailey and the Rolle Quay Inn from a fishing event, organised in memory of Katie Gammon, aged 17, who sadly passed away from Cystic Fibrosis in August 2015.

The money will be used to support children with cystic fibrosis that are treated on the children’s Caroline Thorpe Ward. Over and Above hospital charity Fundraiser Julie Whitton said “This money will be a great help, and will enable us to purchase equipment to support our young patients over and above what the NHS can provide”.

If you would like to support the hospital charity “Over and Above” and have any events and fundraising ideas planned for 2016 please contact the fundraising team on 01271 311772 or email ndht.charity@nhs.net

Photograph: Play Worker Fran Greenaway, Steven Bailey’s daughter Marta Nowak and Staff Nurse Jess Willis.

North Devon VW Club raised an incredible £5,750 from their Final Fling event for the new Seamoor Chemotherapy Unit at North Devon District Hospital.

Organiser Jamie Tallin said “The Club wanted to raise money towards new equipment for the chemotherapy unit and we are delighted with the result. It was by far the most money our club has raised from a single event.”

Fundraiser Julie Whitton showed the Club members around the new unit over the weekend so they could see where their fundraising will be spent.

Julie said “The VW Club are an amazing bunch of people who found the perfect way to raise funds while having a great time at the Final Fling Festival at Little Roadway Farm in Woolacombe.  The staff at the new chemotherapy unit have a long list of equipment that they would like to purchase to treat our patients in the new Seamoor Unit, and this money will help towards making that a reality.