News

29 January 2012 - Facebook
Our profile is growing on social networking site, Facebook, and we now have over amost 150 "Likes". Have you visited our page yet ? If not, click on the button in our left menu bar and have a look !

29 January 2012 - Next Committee Meeting on 20 February 2012
Our next planned meeting is Monday 20 February. It will take place at 7.15pm in the Seminar Room within the Neo Natal Unit at the Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health, at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh. As ever, we are always happy for new members to come along and get involved and share new ideas and skills and would love to see you.

23 September 2011 - BRACELET Study
We have been contacted by a team of researchers are looking for bereaved parents whose baby took part in a clinical trial in neonatal intensive care, and who would be willing talk to them about their experiences (or fill in a questionnaire) for the BRACELET Study. If you are interested in finding out more please see the attachment to this message or visit www.bracelet-study.org.uk.

21 September 2011 - 2011 Christmas Card Collection
I am pleased to announce that our 2011 Christmas Card Collection is now available for sale and to view online, ahead of the despatch of the "hard copy" brochures ! There are some lovely cards available this year (OK, I'm biased as I helped pick them !) and some old favourites available as a bargain pack this year. Be sure to order early to make sure you get the cards you want ! You can view the cards here.

28 August 2011 - Next Committee Meeting on 12 September 2011
Our AGM in June was "downgraded" to a normal committee meeting. Our next planned meeting will now be our AGM, which is Monday 12 September. It will 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. As ever, we are always happy for new members to come along and get involved and share new ideas and skills and would love to see you.

14 August 2011 - A couple of updates

Donations - we do receive regular donations and we select one or two to mention and note them on our Fundraising page. I have added a couple of recent ones.

Simpsons Babies - we have been contacted by Michelle Kernachan who wished to share her story and pictures of her son Craig, born in 2008. I'll not spoil it by giving away too much here, visit the Simpsons Babies pages for the full story.

11 March 2011 - Recent Fundraising Activities
Our Fundraising page has been updated with details of many events which have taken place recently, including the Loony Dook where three brave women raising funds for us were featured in The Sun and News Of The World. newspapers. Click on the link above or in the menu on the left for more information.

14 August 2010 - CAF Payments links
We recently advised that we would no longer be able to accept donations via CAF. I am pleased to announce that this service has been reinstated and, as you will see, that the links have been added back to our site. The only minor point is you will need to fill in our name in the search box. For an accurate search please use our full name - Simpsons Special Care Babies.

26 March 2010 - Simpsons Babies
Another parent has kindly shared the story and pictures of her daughter, Janna Marie. These can be found via the Simpsons Babies page.

14 November 2009 - 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.

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.