News

22 December 2009 - Some Fundraising Snippits

- Mrs Fraser and Mrs Sanaghan, PTs from the Music department of Beeslack Community High School, wrote to SSCB forwarding a wonderful gift of £100. This has come about through the talents of pupils busking at the recent School Christmas concert. Well done to the talented young people who took part both in busking and the Christmas concert. SSCB is delighted to have been a part of the evening in Penicuik.

- Culverwell Property Consultants very generously gifted to SSCB the amount they would have spent in sending Christmas cards. Many thanks for the continued thoughtfulness of this Edinburgh company.

- Relatives of Jacob wanted to mark his life with a donation to help other newborns and did so to SSCB in support of ill newborns.


We thank them all for thinking of us.

30 November 2009 - Simpsons Babies
Another parent has kindly sent in the story and pictures of their daughter, Jasmin, and their experience of their time in NNU. We are extremely grateful for them for sharing this with us anc can be accessed from the Simpsons Babies page, or directly from this link.

19 November 2009 - Christmas Cards Update
Good news and bad news ! The good news is we have had a very good year with our cards sales and have now sold out of a few designs. The bad news is that this means there is a more limited choice of designs remaining. If you have still to place your order please check the Christmas Cards page to check availablility.

We have also had one or two orders go astray, either not reaching us or orders despatched but not being received by the person ordering from us. We can only apologise for this and the timing appears to hint that they may have been caught up in the recent postal dispute. Our hope is that they do turn up in due course but this is obviously outwith our control.

14 November 2009 - A few updates ...

Steele House, Graeme High School, Falkirk - We were invited by the school to attend their assembly and receive a cheque from them as one of the recipients of their charity fund raising. One of our committee members, Sandy Weir, went along and collected it for us - for the fantastic amount of £1,400 ! This is the second large donation we have received from them and we are delighted and very grateful that they continue to think of us.

Next Committee Meeting Dates - Our next scheduled meeting dates are booked for Monday 15 March 2010 and Monday 14 June 2010. The June meeting is provisionally scheduled to be our AGM. They will all take place at 7.30pm in the Seminar Room within the Neo Natal Unit at the Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health, at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh. We are always happy for new members to come along and get involved. If you wish to come along , simply e-mail either info@sscb.org or webmaster@sscb.org and let us know. This is not compulsory and is purely to make sure we have enough chairs - anyone deciding to come along as a last minute decision will still be made very welcome.

Gill Mitchell MBE - As previously announced, our secretary Gill Mitchell was awarded an MBE for her services to charity, more specifically to OUR charity. She recently took a trip to London for her presentation ceremony, where she received her award from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace. Gill has been exceptionally modest about the whole thing, but I think it has finally sunk in, and we are all very proud of her.

She has kindly allowed us to publish this picture of her, taken after receiving the award. Click on the image to enlarge it.

22 August 2009 - Update to Simpsons Babies
Ann Smith has sent us an update and photo's of her daughter Dani, who is now approaching 20 ! This has been added to our Simpsons Babies page.

9 August 2009 - Update to Fundraising Page
A small update has been made to the Fundraising page, featuring 2 walkers who dated money to us afer the Walk For Scotland in June.

9 August 2009 - Christmas Card Sale in October
Yes, Christmas Cards already ! We will be having a stall at Fairmilehead Parish Church fair on 24 October, from 10am to 2pm where we will be selling our 2009 Christmas Card collection. This is an ideal opportunity for anyone in the Edinburgh area wishing to see the cards "properly" to come along and see them and get their choice early !

14 July 2009 - Donation From Leith Academy
We are delighted to have received a donation of £1,000 from the pupils and staff of Leith Academy. The full details can be found on our Fundraising page.

6 July 2009 - Donation From Corstorphine Inner Wheel
Our secretary, Gill Mitchell, attended a cheque presentation recently for a magnificent £2,300 ! The story and picture can be found on our Fundraising page.

26 June 2009 - A couple of snippits of fundraising ....

Our sincere thanks go to Charles' parents who gifted £100 to SSCB. We appreciate their kindness.

A Fundraising Evening organised by Laoise and Kiera's Nana raised £700 for Simpsons Special Care Babies. It was held in the Bowling Club at Whitburn and had generous support of local businesses towards great raffle prizes. £700 was much more than they hoped to raise and the family greatly appreciated the help of all the community in being able to gift this to SSCB. SSCB is very grateful for the hard work and energy which went into the evening and thank everyone sincerely for their support.

6 June 2009 - A couple of updates ....

Another Simpsons Bayby Raising Funds - another of the children featured in our Simpsons Babies page has been busy raising funds for us. Bobbi McBurnie, who is now age 7, has raised over £2,400 ! Her story was published in the East Lothian Courier and it can be read by clicking on the story She is a real Bobbi dazzler.

Funds Raised by SWIP - On Friday 24 April 2009 members of staff from Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, Edinburgh One, Morrison Street were met with the logo of Simpson's Special Care Babies on their way into work. Very generously they gifted an amazing £431.04 to the door collection. This amount has been matched by Lloyds TSB Charity Foundation and we send our gratitude to all at Edinburgh One.

13 May 2009 - Donation From A Simpsons Baby
Well, a grown up one at least. Emma Sutherland - now aged 9 - is featured in our Simpsons Babies page, decided to have a house sale to raise money for us and this resulted in a donation of £500 from her ! Her story is featured in the Edinburgh Evening News and can be read by clicking on this link.

3 May 2009 - Donation From Gorebridge Primary School
The children of Gorebridge Primary School gave Simpsons Special Care Babies and the Neonatal Unit an Easter surprise when they sent a cheque for £46 to the charity. This was their collection from their Easter Church Service. Pupils from Primary 5 and 6 chose the charity, deciding to support the babies cared for in the Neonatal Unit as they wished to link the new beginnings of Easter with the newborn babies. We thank everyone associated with this gift very much.

3 May 2009 - Criticool Thermakid Suit
Members who have kept up to date with us via the website will most likely be aware of the Criticool Cooling equipment we funded earlier this year which is now being used to help babies in the unit (see earlier update below on 1 March 2009). The parents of a baby in the unit allowed their baby to "model" the suit and gave us permission to post the pictures. Their baby did not need to be cooled but they were happy to allow the pictures to be taken. Many thanks to them. We are also indebted to a member of their family too, as we received a large donation from them of £1,000 ! Many thanks to them as well.
Click on the images to enlarge them.