11 December 2018 A limited edition teddy bear, created to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the NHS, has so far raised more than £2,000 for Shropshire’s acute hospitals. Bevan the Bear was created by Ironbridge-based Merrythought – the only traditional teddy bear manufacturers left in the UK – to raise money for The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) [...]
20 June 2018 A bear created to raise money for Shropshire's two acute hospitals has gone on sale. Bevan the Bear has been created by Ironbridge-based Merrythought as part of our celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the NHS. He has been named after Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the NHS. Bevan comes in a limited run of 1,948 bears [...]
11 June 2018 The Trust that runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has teamed up with one of the biggest names in traditional teddy bear manufacturing to create a special souvenir to mark the 70th anniversary of the NHS. Julia Clarke, Director of Corporate Governance at SaTH, and Sarah Holmes, Director at Merrythought, with Bevan Bevan the Bear is [...]
19 February 2018 On 24 February Annie and Mark Hambley will celebrate the first birthday of their beautiful son Bodhi. Mark and Annie Hambley with son Bodhi (centre) with Clare Soltysiak, Fertility Development Co-ordinator; Victoria Gittins, Embryologist and Rosalind Grainger, Fertility Nurse. But for them, it will be no ordinary first birthday party. It will be a day when they [...]
