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Wallace & Gromit's Children’s Foundation are urging the nation to have fun in the sun, donning their weirdest, wackiest legwear and donating £1 for the right to look wrong!

Friday 24th June 2011.

Wrong Trousers Day is an annual national fundraising event. Thousands of people from all walks of life pay a pound to swap their normal attire and step out in weird and wacky clothes - or just something plain ‘wrong.’

Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Foundation is a national charity which raises funds to improve the quality of life for children in hospitals and hospices throughout the UK.

Created in 2003, it is the only national charity to receive the backing of the treble Academy Award-winning characters Wallace & Gromit, created by Nick Park at Aardman, who is also a trustee of the Children’s Foundation.

The Foundation also organizes the popular annual fundraiser Wallace & Gromit’s Great British Tea Party, launched in 2008. Held in December each year, people across the UK are invited to take part in a tea party in their area and make a donation to the charity.

The Great British Tea Party won Cause Related Marketing Campaign of the Year at the Marketing Week Awards 2010.

The charity works with an established network of children’s hospitals and hospices to provide the very best comforts and facilities available and to ensure children in hospital and hospices have a better, brighter future.

By funding an innovative range of projects, the charity is able to enrich and enhance the lives of patients and their families in regional centers throughout the country.

Wallace & Gromit’s Wrong Trousers Day raises funds for 59 children’s hospitals and hospices throughout the UK. Funds raised support projects and causes in local communities such as: art, music, play and sensory therapy; family services; state of the art equipment and child friendly environments.

This year the Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Foundation handed over a total of £171,603.33 to twenty-six children's hospitals and hospices, stretching from Winchester to Inverness.

Wallace & Gromit’s Wrong Trousers Day 2011 Fast Facts

• Wrong Trousers Day is a huge, annual fundraising event organised by the national charity Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Foundation.
• It is backed by the treble Academy Award-winning characters Wallace and Gromit, created by Nick Park at Aardman and inspired by their film ‘The Wrong Trousers’.
• This year’s Wrong Trousers Day takes place on Friday 24th June. For more information, call 0207 8418 987 or visit www.wrongtrousersday.org.
• Created in 2003, Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Foundation raises funds on Wrong Trousers Day to improve the quality of life for children in hospitals and hospices across the UK. Since 2003 Wrong Trousers Day has raised over £1 million.
• In 2011, 26 hospitals and hospices in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales will benefit from funds raised.
• To take part, people are invited to pay £1 and step out in their weirdest, wackiest legwear – or just something plain ‘wrong’!
• A range of Wallace & Gromit merchandise is available to purchase in aid of the Children’s Foundation, including £1 pin badges, T-shirts and mugs. Order online at www.wrongtrousersday.org or call 0117 9252 744.
• In the past, people have taken part in all kinds of fundraising events for Wrong Trousers Day, from head shaving to sky diving.
• Every year, 2.4 million children are admitted to hospital – that’s roughly 20% of all children under 16 in the UK.
• 20,000 children in the UK suffering from a life limiting illness will not make it to their eighteenth birthday.
• 1 in 3 families in the UK have a child who has been admitted to hospital.
• Nutricia are proud sponsors of Wrong Trousers Day 2011.

Nutricia are proud sponsors of Wrong Trousers Day 2011.

Roger Phillips, Nutricia's Regional Vice President and sponsor of Wrong Trousers Day, says:

Nutricia are delighted to support Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation Wrong Trousers Day.

Nutricia will be supporting the day with fund raising events at our offices and our Paediatric Representatives will work closely with selected children's wards to ensure a fun and successful day is had by all.

Our support of the Children's Foundation extends throughout the year and the next exciting activity for us to look forward to is when Team Nutricia take part in the Wallace & Gromit London to Paris charity bike ride.

Wrong Trousers Day 2011 Beneficiaries

Listed below are the hospitals and hospices chosen to receive grants for 2011.
England:
Leicester Royal Infirmary
Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Nottingham City Hospital Children’s Centre
Butterwick House Children’s Hospice (Stockton-on-Tees)
The Donna Louise Children’s Hospice Trust, Treetops (Stoke-on-Trent)
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital (Liverpool)
Brian House Children’s Hospice (Blackpool)
Helen & Douglas House Children’s Hospice (Oxford)
Addenbrooke’s Children's Hospital (Cambridge)
Naomi House Children’s Hospice (Winchester)
Sheffield Children’s Hospital
Leeds General Infirmary
Martin House Children’s Hospice (Wetherby)
Calderdale Royal Hospital (Halifax)
Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Bristol)
Guy’s Hospital (London)
Richard House Children’s Hospice (London)
St. Mary’s Hospital (London)
St. George’s Hospital (London)
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (London)
Royal Free Hampstead (London)
Shooting Star Children’s Hospice (London)
Scotland:
Raigmore Hospital (Inverness)
Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill (Glasgow)
Wales:
Children’s Hospital for Wales (Cardiff)
Ireland:
Antrim Area Hospital

Wrong Trousers Day Celebrity Support

Celebrities who have previously backed Wrong Trousers Day include:
‘Bad Girls’ Cast members - TV drama
‘Casualty’ Cast members - TV drama
Ainsley Harriott - celebrity chef
Anthony Minghella - film director
Bonnie Langford - stage and TV actress
Bristol City FC - football club
Bristol Rovers FC - football club
Chris Chittell - actor, played Eric Pollard in TV soap ‘Emmerdale’
Coronation Street Cast* - TV soap
David Baddiel - comedian
Frank Skinner - comedian
Gary Lineke - footballer and TV star
Gary Wilmot - comedian and actor
Jensen Spencer - actor, played Paul McClane in ‘Neighbours’
John Challis - actor, played Boycie in ‘Only Fools and Horses’
John Conteh - ex-boxer
Judy Finnegan - TV presenter
Kenneth Branagh - actor
Linda Robson - actress, appeared in TV sitcom ‘Birds of a Feather’
Michael Palin - actor
Michaela Strachan - TV presenter – BBC Really Wild show
Mis-teeq - all-girl pop band
Nick Park - animator
Paul Daniels - magician
Prince Naseem Hamed - World champion boxer
Ray Ashcroft - actor, played DS Daly in ‘The Bill’
Richard Madeley - TV presenter
Rolf Harris - artist and TV presenter
Ronan Keating - pop star
Sheffield Wednesday FC football club
Sophie Anderton - model
Su Pollard - actress, appeared in TV sitcom ‘Hi de Hi’
The Chippendales - stage artists
The Worzles - band
Uri Geller - telepathist and para-scientist
Westlife - boy band