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Mendip District Council staff have raised a total of £1,459 for their Staff Charity of the Year, Time is Precious.

Every year, Council staff nominate a new cause to support for 12 months..

Throughout 2020, staff raised funds for Time is Precious, but with numerous lockdowns, it was challenging to undertake fundraising activities, with many staff working from home. As such, staff voted to continue raising money for the charity throughout 2021.

Funds have since been raised through sponsored activities and online fundraisers such as raffles, competitions and donating to the charity instead of buying Christmas cards for colleagues.

Stuart Brown, Chief Executive of Mendip District Council, said: “I am blown away by the dedication of Mendip staff to their Charity of the Year, Time is Precious.

Recently as already seen on the Bristol Children’s site, we have donated over £45,000 worth of interactive equipment to our hospitals.
We donated 11 projectors and a giant interactive mobile screen for the wards at Bristol Children’s Hospital and another giant sense projector for the RUH Outpatients department.

A member of the play team said:

Well what a rollercoaster!! Team TIP rocked, Thank you to everyone who took part in the Half Marathon in Bath or somewhere else.
Truly amazing people. We like to thank all our Trustees, volunteers, coaches, therapists and sponsors for making everything possible in difficult circumstances.
Massive thank you to everyone who has sponsored or supported our runners.

Thank you to Williamson Dickies Europe Ltd, from Midsomer Norton, who in December put on an event, ‘12 Days of Christmas’ within the business, which included a new event and theme each day, including a raffle supported by local businesses in the area with hampers, beauty vouchers and flowers. Through this, they managed to raise £630, which was doubled when the Company Directors agreed to match the amount to make it a amazing £1260.

A massive thank you to Amcor Flexibles for
the $5,000 donation. It was won by the company’s ‘High Performance Laminates Team’ (part of Amcor Flexibles EMEA) for the 2019 CEO Outperformance Awards. They won a ‘Customer Focus’ award for their work in Amcor and as part of the win, received $5000 to donate to a charity of their choice. Seven charities (UK, Europe and Worldwide based) were put forward to a vote across all HPL colleagues and Time is Precious came out on top as the overall winner.
The donation has gone towards are new Sense projectors.

We were honoured to be invited to the Somer AC amazing annual event The Jack & Jill 10k.
We were presented with a cheque of a fantastic £500 after being chosen their charity of the year 2018/19.

Congratulations to our founder and trustee Nicky on winning West Woman of 2019

140 runners took part in this years Bath Half Marathon for Time is Precious. Well done to everyone who took part and volunteered to make Team Tip so special to be part of. This year we was super proud to have 3 children pushed around the course, Harmonie, Devon and Ellie who have all used TIP equipment. Its been another amazing year and we like to thank all of you who for making it so special.

Two Anaesthetic Rooms on Day Surgery in RUH, were transformed in our latest project!
These rooms are used by children & adults & sure you will agree they make the room look less clinical & more child friendly.

Thank you to CDB painting and decorating and Smiles Decorating for your amazing work.
We could not do these projects without the fabulous support from you all.

A massive thank you to Stonebridge estate agents from Shepton Mallet for raising £850 at the Collett Festival.

The company held a raffle and was joined by Memorable Moments Face Painting doing a fantastic job with the face painting. 

A big thank you to everyone who ran for Team TIP at Yeovil Half Marathon. The run was in replacement of Bath Half after it was cancelled due to snow earlier in the month. It was just one of the

replacement runs happening in the coming weeks. We will post more pictures soon and details of Team TIP 2019 coming soon.

We could not do this without the continued support of you all.

Thank you to the following who have raised vital funds for us in the last few months.

*Retro Spin Disco £210
*Taylor Green Beauty Raffle £267
*TJ Crook £250
*Laura Beale 40th birthday £150
*Pam Hares & family Christmas Bingo £300
*Gill Richards Craft Fayre £331
*Henleaze Christmas Festival £500
*Somerset Vintage Classic Tractor donation £250
*Frome Ukulele Concert £1,000
*Thatcher & Hallam donation £100
*Holcombe Welcome Club £120
*Midsomer Norton Methodist Concert £300
*Dickies £753:40
*Yeovil Police Ball £707 (going to Yeovil Hospital)
*Bath 31st Guides Senior Section Cake Sale £36
*Heather Rushton 70th £70
*Gamwell Family £500

The Christmas Parsnip was a cracker!
Held by Frome Ukulele Club at the round house raised a amazing £1000
Thank you

Although Bath Half Marathon was cancelled, there was a lot of support already given to our Team TIP.

We would like to say a big thank our 2018 sponsors Wayne & Laura Darby-Jones.

There were also many companies who gave us things.
*Sun Chemical donated 168 bottles of water, a large fun photo frame & the photo area back drop. *Asda-100 Bananas, *Sainsbury’s-voucher for sweets & Jaffa Cakes, Jones Food Solutions- Mars Bars, and everyone who kindly offered to bake cakes, quiches & donate other items (many of you would of already made/ bought items).

Also, thank you to Jim Barron, John Reynolds, Paul Cosh & Gosia Krec, who helped to coach some of our fabulous runners.

Most importantly, a big thank you to our runners who trained so hard for a year and all the people that have sponsored and not asked for a refund. We are extremely grateful for your generosity, I can assure you, the money you raised will help so many ill (some terminal) children & families whilst in hospital.

Congratulations to Penny Seviour from Radstock for winning the Bayswater Experience.
A big thank you to Mulberry for donating this amazing prize.
We sold over 250 tickets and made over £1225.

To watch draw please click here

The new completed Waiting Area for day patients. Funded by TIP!!

Much nicer than having to share an area with sick children.

What a awesome day at the Time for Bricks lego event!

We raised an amazing £3782.86
Thank you to everyone who came along and for being patient as we got you all in. We had 1000 visitors.

Members of Frome RFC Under 13 team ran the Frome 5km in July. They wanted to keep up their fitness, train for the new season, do something which was a challenge and do something for the community. As a team they wanted to raise money and they chose the local Charity Time is Precious. In total they have raised £1038.75 and presented a cheque to trustee of the charity, Louise Coate.

Our  Sensory units have still been making a massive difference! This young lad was born with a condition called Congenital Lobar Emphysema, he was in hospital for 3 weeks as they had to remove the majority of his left lung. If left the condition would of been fatal.

The equipment was brought to him daily as he had a chest drain he couldn’t leave his bed and even though he was only 6 months when he was in, his mum could tell he looked forward to it. Every time it was wheeled in towards his bed he would kick his legs in excitement.

Your support makes a difference.

The final total raised at the Mulberry sample sale was over £13,500. Thank you so much to Mulberry, for choosing TIP to be charity of the year, and a big thank you to all our volunteers who worked in London.

TIP has completed another amazing project in the Bristol Children’s Hospital.
We have provided Wall Art in six of the HDU Cubicles!

The rooms use to be very stark and clinical and have no windows or natural light,with huge medical equipment standing with nothing to distract from the clinical environment.

This Wall Art has made a massive difference bringing a calming, less clinical environment for the children and families during an often emotionally heightened stay in HDU.

With six different amazing scenic designs which was all chosen by staff and parents.

Thank you all for supporting our voluntarily ran local charity:
Making a difference together xxx

What a fantastic event at the TIP Fun run organised by the Centurion Fitness Club.
Thank you to everyone who took part in the 5k and the children’s 1k.
A big thank you also to all our volunteers who helped at the event, as well as Spider-Man who ran with the children.
Also, making a special appearance on the run was local running legend “John Reynolds” and also making their debut today was our new mascot Mr Lion. Thanks again for everyone’s support.

If you wish to join our amazing Team TIP for Bath Half 2018, it’s not too late! Or if you have your own place & would like to join us, it’s still possible to get the amazing experience by joining us. You won’t regret it! Places are limited, as we want to ensure we look after our team/ runners, with a first class day!

The latest project we have just completed is a children’s bay on Day Surgery Recovery ward at RUH Hospital. Bringing some colour for when young patients wake up! A big thank you to Chris Ball (CDB painter & Decorator) and Andy Isles (Smileys) for giving their services for free to fit the wall mural. Along with the wall mural we have supplied two boxes of toys for children to use before they return to the Children’s ward.Thank you to everyone who supports TIP! Together we can make a difference.

Thank you to Lions for their amazing £2000 donation from a sponsored swim.

Thank you to Bath College for their on going support for TIP.

Well done to childcare students who did a great job raising money for Time is Precious during RAG Week (Raising and Giving Week) #BathCollege #Fundraising

Annual General Meetings are, by their very nature, sometimes quite boring. Not so at the Norton and Radstock U3A AGM, which was held recently at the Somer Centre.
The hall was packed with members and not an empty chair in sight. The meeting kicked off with Nicky Halford receiving a cheque for over £3,500 in respect of the local charity, Time is Precious.

The remainder of the meeting passed as AGMs do with a number of reports, election of officers and various administrative items. These were dealt with as quickly as possible, so that members were able to get onto the serious business of socialising and tea tasting.
Next year will see Norton and Radstock U3A’s twentieth anniversary, with plenty of celebratory events being planned. The U3A hold two meetings per month in the Somer Centre – a speaker meeting on the second Monday and a coffee morning on the fourth Monday. With a total of some 36 groups covering topics as varied as Art, Drama, Rambling, Psychology, Spanish, Local History and Table Tennis, to name but a few, there is something for everyone. If you would like to know more about U3A, please telephone: 01761 479606 for further details.

Thank you to the group for such an amazing donation!

Massive thank you to Frome Poker Club who chose TIP for their charity of the year and raised an amazing £1300.

Just wanted to announce: Time Is Precious did not win anything at the Charity video awards with the 2015 Christmas Video.  However a huge thank you to everyone who voted to get us through  to the final! congratulations to St Johns Ambulance who won overall.

Time is Precious have funded two specialist seats for Bristol Children’s Physio Department costing over £ 3500.

The specialist seating is hugely helpful for children who have had  brain injuries or are unwell following cancer/tumor removal. It can take time for them to build up the strength and muscle control to sit out of bed. It is also important for helping children to clear their chests.

Specialist seating has additional supports to help the child sit upright safely so that they can interact with family and play. A chair on wheels means  they can move out of the bed space and off the ward once they are a more medically well.

 Specialist Seating is very expensive but thanks to everyone who supports T.I.P, we can purchase these essential pieces of equipment and really make a difference.

Two 9 year old girls raise £120 by selling things they use. The girls done it off their own back with no help from a adult. Thank you girls