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Peppa Pig World and Paultons Park are proud to support Tommy’s – Peppa Pig’s chosen charity. Tommy’s exist to save babies’ lives by funding research and providing information on the causes and prevention of miscarriage, premature birth and stillbirth. Peppa and her family have helped to raise over £900,000 for Tommy’s since 2005.

Tommy’s Baby Races are a series of fundraising events that are being held throughout July to raise money and awareness for the charity.  Each race is 8km and are for parents to run or power walk with their baby in their buggy. The routes all follow paths perfect for buggies in beautiful parks. No Baby or Buggy? Then fear not you can still take part! These are events for the whole family; you can walk or run and children can join in by cycling or scooting alongside.

The events take place in beautiful, child-friendly venues across the UK in July 2012. There is an entry fee per adult and it includes a free t-shirt and goody bag after the event. Every penny you raise will go towards Tommy’s research and information programmes, which aim to prevent premature birth, stillbirth and miscarriage. Race locations include:

• London
• Aylesbury
• Windsor
• Cheltenham
• Ruislip
• Bedford
• Northwich
• Cambridge

All participants are welcome from mums, dads, pregnant women, friends and let’s not forget, your little ones! For more info and to find out which event is taking place near you with times, dates & how to enter, visit www.tommys.org/babyrace.

Happy racing!

Useful Links:

• Tommy’s Charity
• Paultons Park Charities

Please note Tommy’s Baby Race Events are not taking place at Peppa Pig World. 

The duck pond at Peppa Pig World has proved a surprising source of fundraising for the official supported charity of Peppa Pig, Tommy’s. Supervisors at Paultons have been collecting change that has been thrown into the pond throughout the 2011 season and collected an amazing £1483.34 for the Tommy’s charity.

Rowan MacMillan, Corporate Fundraising Manager for Tommy’s visited Peppa Pig World last month to be presented with a giant cheque from staff members who helped collect the money from the pond each morning and Peppa Pig herself.

Rowan MacMillan said: ‘We are delighted to be supported by Paultons Park and were amazed to hear that such a large amount of money had come out of the duck pond. The amount raised will go towards our on-going medical research into pregnancy and birth, helping to ensure that more babies are born healthy.

’Tommy’s mission is to give every baby the best chance of being born healthy by funding medical research into the causes of premature birth, stillbirth and miscarriage, and provide a free information service that educates all parents to-be about health in pregnancy.

Paultons also supports Tommy’s by selling unique collectable Peppa Pig badges which are available Peppa’s Toy Shop that raised an additional £10,000 for the charity in 2011.

For more information on the charities that Paultons Park supports visit our charity page.