We have successfully raised funds for the purchase of the baby heart monitor for the Maternity unit of the Great Western Hospital . The monitor has been bought at a cost of over £7500 , and is up and running in the Antenatal Ward.(see images below) A huge thankyou goes to all members of the public who supported this charity. Some of the notable contributors are mentioned below.


Click here to visit the website for the fundraising page of the Swindon and Marlborough trust.

28th April 2005
Highworth couple John and Marian Jenkins celebrated their Golden Wedding and instead of accepting presents they collected contributions amounting to £300 for the fetal monitor charity

January 2005
A big thankyou to all at RAF Lyneham whose service funds contributed to the charity in January 2005

23rd October 2004
Ladbrokes donate £3700 from fundraising evening at the greyhound stadium.




July 2004
Mr and Mrs Ponting of the Ancient order of the Moose arrange a charity day + singsong for the benefit of the monitor charity . Many thanks!!


Big boosts to fundraising were achieved recently
Shepherd's rest 16th April 2004
John Cullimore, Nick Weaver and Rob Beckinsale performed. See publicity poster circulated by pub!
Many thanks to Brenda and Steve for inviting us and setting up a great evening which made £192.70 for the baby monitor fund.
Congratulations to the couple who won £100 of shopping vouchers provided by the outlet centre. Thanks also to Shirley Ludford for her organisational abilities and support.

Area 51, 23rd April 2004
Under the Knife back together. What a night. Thanks to Brian Webster (bass) Val Stapleton (vocals) Nick Weaver (vocals and 1 man show!), Rick Ware (percussion) and Andrew Bond (guitar, keyboards and an unforgettable rendition of 'California girls' which became 'Cirencester girls' amongst others.
Jamie, thanks for your sound engineering!

Really big thanks to Val Mortimer and Sue Meakin who really organised the whole evening. So far over £720 banked and more on the way following successful auctioning of goods for the baby monitor charity.

McArthur Glen Outlet Centre, Easter Monday. April 12th 2004
A fairly unique experience organised by Nick Weaver. Many thanks to Mr McLlhagga for giving us £100 of outlet centre vouchers which were successfully raffled at the Shepherd's Rest, proceeds to the fund.
(Click on the newspaper clipping to read the article on This is Wiltshire)