Event Report: Southmead Hospital Charity

 Saturday 29th April 2023

Myself, Mike and Mark had been invited to attended a Charity fundraising day by local friends from Clevedon.

This is the second one we’ve attended helping to raise funds for Southmead Hospital.

Check out their Facebook page.

We were located next to the toy area, Mike couldn’t help himself and borrowed a Grogu toy 😂😂😂

Mike took his R2 off round the floor area, and stopped by the amazing face painting and balloon sculpture. 
There were lots of happy parents and kids 😂. Lots of people asked questions about the droids and building them, and then Mike was telling them to ask me for my autograph ✍️ 😂😂😂

Here are some of the days pictures:

And some more:

Father and son 😂

There were quite a few visitors who were not from Bristol , as became apparent when telling them about our upcoming event at the M-Shed Museum.

Looking forward to this, as well as Swindon’s Stars of Time event next month:

Disclaimer: my R5 is NOT the one used in the Mandalorian series 👍🏽

Event Report: Southmead Hospital Charity @ John Lewis

This one is down to Mike Berry….

A few weeks ago he had a customer pop in and noticed Mike’s droids. They got chatting about a, unknown at this time, mutual friend, Paul W of TRamp designs.

www.trooperamp.co.uk

There was an upcoming charity event at his store, John Lewis' in the Mall, Cribbs Causeway. Details were exchanged and Paul was contacted and he invited us to join them.

It was a VERY cold early morning, Mike picked me up in his van and we made the short trip up the road to Cribbs.  We were met and escorted to where we had been allocated a large area, near the toy section on the lower floor. A banner had been kindly supplied by Southmead Charity so that people knew why we were there lol. Three collection buckets saw a lot of donations deposited. Lot's of photos were taken and plenty of questions asked about the droids and how to make them....so we could see a few more builders in the coming weeks/months lol.

There were other things going on, a violinist, choir, guide dogs, face painting & balloon creations.

Jamie was passing by and popped in to say hi 👋🏼 

Was good to see him & chat. He was also kind enough to babysit the droids when we went to get food.

As a thank you we were presented with our very special tins

We finished up around 4pm and were kindly escorted back to the loading area to load ip Mike’s van. Another successful event.