From the awards programme booklet:
(Copied from MCHFT Celebration of Achievements Awards 2011/2012 programme booklet)
Friday, 9 March 2012
Mother's Pride
I am very proud of my daughter, Nicola, who last night won an Achievement Award from MCHFT for her voluntary work providing the parents of babies born asleep with very precious memories.
From the awards programme booklet:
"Nicola Cooper is an accredited hospital volunteer and a professional photographer who provides her time and expertise freely, mostly at short notice, to women and their families who have experienced a pregnancy loss at Mid Cheshire's Maternity Unit. Sadly some babies die before or shortly after birth taking away the hopes and dreams of their family's future: it is a very confusing and traumatic time when parents are required to make difficult decisions.With her camera, Nicola sensitively and unobtrusively captures precious moments and memories of the short time that the families have with their babies. By providing them with the photographs, families have something to cherish and validate their parenthood long after the funeral. Nicola is utterly selfless, a consummate professional and is valued and praised by every family with which she has worked."
(Copied from MCHFT Celebration of Achievements Awards 2011/2012 programme booklet)
From the awards programme booklet:
(Copied from MCHFT Celebration of Achievements Awards 2011/2012 programme booklet)
Monday, 5 March 2012
Ray of Hope Stall Dates for 2012
Ray of Hope's weekly stall, selling babywear and knitted toys, is open from 8.30-15.00 in the outpatients' hall, Leighton Hospital, Crewe.
The stall alternates between Thursdays and Fridays, so this week the stall will be open on Friday (9th March) and next week on Thursday (15th March).
Below are all the dates for the stall for the rest of 2012.
Please note there will be no stall on Good Friday, 6th April 2012.
MARCH
Thursday 1st
Friday 9th
Thursday 15th
Friday 23rd
Thu 29th
APRIL
Thursday 12th
Friday 20th
Thursday 26th
NO STALL on Friday April 6th
MAY
Friday 4th
Thursday 10th
Friday 18th
Thursday 24th
JUNE
Friday 1st
Thursday 7th
Friday 15th
Thursday 21st
Friday 29th
JULY
Thursday 5th
Friday 13th
Thursday 19th
Friday 27th
AUGUST
Thursday 2nd
Friday 10th
Thursday 16th
Friday 24th
Thursday 30th
SEPTEMBER
Friday 7th
Thursday 13th
Friday 21st
Thursday 27th
OCTOBER
Friday 5th
Thursday 11th
Friday 19th
Thursday 25th
NOVEMBER
Friday 2nd
Thursday 8th
Friday 16th
Thu 22nd
Friday 30th
DECEMBER
Thursday 6th
Friday 14th
Thursday 20th
Latest Donations - February 2012
Donations continue to come in to Ray of Hope for us to add to our fundraising total for Mid Cheshire Hospitals One in Eleven Appeal. We're so grateful to everyone who contributes.
Crewe and District Probus Club raised £405.75. Many, many thanks.
K Daley donated £150 in memory of her beloved triplets. Thank you so much.
Mr J Lawrence and family sent a donation of £225 in memory of Barbara, a cherished wife, mother and grandmother. Thank you.
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Thursday, 5 January 2012
News for November 2011 - January 2012
November
WI Winsford
£20 donation for talk. Thank you
Inner Wheel, Sandbach
Donation £100. Many, many thanks.
Mr and Mrs Higgin
£100 (plus Gift Aid) donation.
In memory of Thomas.
Thank you so much.
Mr and Mrs Ashmore
£75 (plus Gift Aid) donation.
In memory of Thomas.
Many, many thanks
Mr and Mrs Booth
£105
Donation from twins' christening.
Thank you for thinking of us.
January 2012
Wistaston
Community Council
£400 donation from
the fireworks night event.
Huge thanks to all
concerned.
Wistaston
Roundabout
£100 donation.
Thank you so much.
Mrs Read
£40.00 donation.
Thank you so much.
Saturday, 22 October 2011
News for September and October 2011
September
CCGS School
Graham Edgerton raised £112.28 plus £12.10 Gift Aid by doing the Tatton Park triathlon for us on 10th September. Total raised £124.58. Many thanks Graham, and to everyone who sponsored him.
Catherine Worrall's fundraising event was a great success, despite some very heavy showers. There was a cake stall, book stall, knitted baby clothes, tombola, face painting and a lovely cake raffled - that Cat had been up baking since 5.30am on Saturday morning! The event raised the grand total of £96.50. Very well done and thank you so very much to Cat, and to all her family and friends who helped to make it possible.
Darren Varley did a sponsored
run for the One in Eleven appeal.
Many thanks and
very well done Darren.
Gwen Madden and
ladies - £25 donation. Many thanks.
Gwen Moss - £5 donation. Many thanks
Employees of Health Shield, Electra Way Crewe, h ad a dress down
day and a 'Guess the Baby's Name' competition. They raised £85 which
was fund matched by Health Shield, so the total amount to us was £170. Thank you all so
much.
Jill Parton - £25 donation. Many thanks.
October
Saturday, 20 August 2011
News for July and August 2011
Fundraising for the new Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Leighton Hospital - the One in Eleven Appeal
July 2011
We're off to a good start with little badges we've had made
depicting our little bear with NICU in individual letters
on his balloons. This is the logo which you can see on the floor on the
entrance to the existing neonatal ward and also on the floor of the parents' sitting room. These little badges are £1.00 each and are available on our
stall, on the neonatal unit, from Bridge Farm Nurseries and various other places. If you would like one, you can phone me on 01270 582187.
My 7 year old
grandson Jack Parton did his very first triathlon on July 2nd, sponsored
for us. He raised a brilliant £200. Very well done Jack, we are all so proud of
you. His dad Jon is already experienced in triathlons and it looks as if Jack
may well be joining him.
Jen Poulton and
Nicola Marshall, the two mums who raised money last year towards the cold cot
we bought for the labour ward, have this year joined forces once again with some
wonderful workers from Barclays bank. They held another garden party this year,
again at the home of Mr and Mrs Poulton in Sandbach. Much work and effort was
put into it and a great deal of support from local people and also the Latter
Day Saints. We would like to give out heartfelt thanks to all of you.
Today we have banked £1,867.50!
£1,648. 50 was raised
by the Garden Party (and this is promised to be match funded by Barcleys Bank)
£120.00 was raised by
Ben from the Marathon
£99.00 was from a Teddy
Bears Picnic from Phoebe's play school.
Tremendous thanks
to all of you concerned.
More things are in
the pipe line and we hope with this blog that you will join us with this very
exciting venture.
August 2011
Graham Egerton will be doing the Tatton
Park Triathlon for us on the 10 September 2011. Please look on his Just Giving
page www.justgiving.com/graham-egerton and make a donation, no matter how small. Both
Graham and the Ray of Hope will be very grateful. Sarah Egerton can be
contacted on Facebook
August 27th
Stillbirth and
Baby loss in Crewe (Can be found on Facebook.)
Catherine
Worrall is holding a Fund Raising Event from 12pm to 4pm at the
Webby Community
Centre, Frank Webb Ave Crewe - p roceeds to the
Ray of Hope.
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
FOR LITTLE BABIES BORN ASLEEP
We had been knitting and sewing for a good while for babies on the neonatal ward, when we were aproached be one of the members of the maternity staff to ask if we would/could make garments for stillborn babies, from as small as 12 weeks. Of course we would and set about finding out the hospitals needs for this very important role.
We have patterns on our webpage www.rayofhope.co.uk and as you will see call them gowns for babies born asleep. We also have angels pockets both knitted and sewn for the very small and larger pockets if parents do not want baby dressed.
We supply to hospitals anwhere in the UK who we are in touch with and they request more from us as they need them.
These little items are very precious to us and to the parents. Some are used with baby and some are kept ( ie the liitle memory blankets) to keep with the memory boxes that we also supply to our own ( Leighton Hospital)
We have the tiny anels pockets from 15cms (6") square, some lace edged and some plain
Small gowns both cotton and knitted from approx 20cms (8") long
Medium Sized gowns and Larger gowns
Memory blankets and sometimes memory quits all between 30cms(12") and 60cms(24") square
Little bonnets/hats bootees and mitts to suit the above
If your hospital does not offer you any , please contact us direct.
We have provided moses baskets and recently purchased a cold ( refrigerated) cot, to enable parents to be able to spend those few extra special hours with baby. The cot cost over £2,000 and was purchased with the help of two bereaved familes who held a very succesful fund raising event for us.
We used to put a camera into the memory box with prepaid developing but we now have a professional photographer Nicola, www.nicspics.co.uk ---email ncooperdp@yahoo.co.uk--07968737488 joined our team who has offered her services on a 24 hour call and goes in to the hospital and meets parents and puts the photos on a disk. Parents will always have them and can view them as and when they feel ready and able. The service is free, any cost is to us. This has been really welcomed by the parents and Nicola receives many thanks.
Please feel welcome to join this blogspot and tell us your stories about your little ones. They are not forgotten Angels they are always very much part of life.
We have patterns on our webpage www.rayofhope.co.uk and as you will see call them gowns for babies born asleep. We also have angels pockets both knitted and sewn for the very small and larger pockets if parents do not want baby dressed.
We supply to hospitals anwhere in the UK who we are in touch with and they request more from us as they need them.
These little items are very precious to us and to the parents. Some are used with baby and some are kept ( ie the liitle memory blankets) to keep with the memory boxes that we also supply to our own ( Leighton Hospital)
We have the tiny anels pockets from 15cms (6") square, some lace edged and some plain
Small gowns both cotton and knitted from approx 20cms (8") long
Medium Sized gowns and Larger gowns
Memory blankets and sometimes memory quits all between 30cms(12") and 60cms(24") square
Little bonnets/hats bootees and mitts to suit the above
If your hospital does not offer you any , please contact us direct.
We have provided moses baskets and recently purchased a cold ( refrigerated) cot, to enable parents to be able to spend those few extra special hours with baby. The cot cost over £2,000 and was purchased with the help of two bereaved familes who held a very succesful fund raising event for us.
We used to put a camera into the memory box with prepaid developing but we now have a professional photographer Nicola, www.nicspics.co.uk ---email ncooperdp@yahoo.co.uk--07968737488 joined our team who has offered her services on a 24 hour call and goes in to the hospital and meets parents and puts the photos on a disk. Parents will always have them and can view them as and when they feel ready and able. The service is free, any cost is to us. This has been really welcomed by the parents and Nicola receives many thanks.
Please feel welcome to join this blogspot and tell us your stories about your little ones. They are not forgotten Angels they are always very much part of life.
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