The Grace Research Fund is a small local charity working in Coventry and Warwickshire to fund and support much needed research into the causes of premature births and the best forms of neonatal care, as well as to help improve the wellbeing of babies and their families.

They are not asking for money, just for your help.

Could you have one of their small recycling collection boxes in your business/office/school/organisation for just a few weeks? They can raise much needed funds from your old keys, mobile phones, watches, real/costume jewellery and domestic/foreign coins.

They will deliver it and collect it; all you have to do is say YES.

The Grace Research Fund was set up by Tracy and Simon Hayes in memory of their daughter, Grace, who was born 14 weeks early weighing just 1lb (453 grams) at birth. At five months Grace went home on oxygen but sadly due to her lung condition she died at aged just nine months.

The Fund is a collaborative effort, involving not just parents of premature babies, but staff from The University of Warwick Medical School, Warwick Hospital, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire (Walsgrave) and George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton. In some cases, the findings of the research will impact neonatal care nationally. Current research projects include looking into the causes and effects of infant pain.

If you are able to help them, please call Yvonne White on 07538 875144 or email grace.recycling@btinternet.com

Attached is additional information about the recycling collection boxes. For more information visit www.graceresearchfund.org.uk.