Forever Friends Appeal

The Royal United Hospital is the acute district general hospital for Bath and the surrounding towns and villages of North East Somerset and West Wiltshire – a very substantial catchment area covering 500,000 people.

The Forever Friends Appeal raises money for state-of-the-art equipment and facilities at the RUH. In the summer of this year we launched our new exciting project – NICU ‘space to grow’ - a £4.5 million campaign to build a new Neonatal Intensive Care Unit here at the RUH. Some 500 sick and premature babies use the existing facilities every year and we want to make sure that they are given the best possible start in life. The present building is old, and conditions are very cramped, making the care of our tiny babies extremely challenging.

As well as providing important additional space, we want to build a NICU that will be light, airy, and calm with a welcoming environment for both babies and parents. Sustainability will be the key objective of the new design and we will aim to do ‘more with less’ by maximising resource efficiency in planning, design, waste minimisation and recycling.

We are hoping that local companies will want to help us meet this challenge and, with this in mind, I am writing to ask you to support our NICU campaign. If your company will be sending out charity cards this year may I ask for that you consider this campaign. Every card purchased goes a small but significant way to helping us achieve this goal. Thank you for your support.

John Cullum
Chairman of the Forever Friends Appeal
Registered Charity Number 1058323

http://www.foreverfriendsappeal.co.uk/