00:00Well, we're delighted to present the Greatest Drug Show on Earth here at Mal Cribs in our Grommet Unleashed Pavilion.
00:09And all 54 sculptures from the trail, plus the miniatures and nearly 100 individually designed schools' Norbots are here for one and only time,
00:20for two weeks before they go to auction and new homes around the world.
00:24Oh, and can you tell us a bit more about the new Norbots that schools have designed?
00:32So we've got nearly 100 Norbots designed by school pupils from Bristol, around the region and deep into the southwest.
00:42And each one of them has brought such humour and warmth to their Norbot sculptures.
00:49And it's wonderful to see those, all the different designs. They're like an army of Norbots, all saluting, and it's a magnificent sight.
00:59So we have 53 sculptures on the trail all around Bristol and the surrounding area, all summer, for eight weeks.
01:06And we've been blown away by the visitors. You know, people have had a fantastic time out on the trail.
01:11We were lucky with the weather this summer. It's been a pretty dry summer.
01:16So we've seen families of people out enjoying the trail with their maps and their apps.
01:21We've also seen, for the first time, families enjoying the trails at different parts of their lives.
01:29So some people have been out and told us that they first did the trail with their children when they were little in 2013.
01:35And then they've come back again and done it now, 12 years later, when the children are teenagers.
01:41So it's wonderful to see progress of families through the trails.
01:45And, of course, it's all for such a great cause because it's all about sick children and babies at Bristol Children's Hospital
01:51and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, which is grand appeal.
01:55What we do, we are the charity for the Children's Hospital.
01:58And all the sculptures will go to auction on the 2nd of October to raise money for the charity.
02:04Aside from raising money for the auction, how much has the trail raised so far?
02:10We are blown away with people's reaction to sculptures and their donations.
02:14People are so generous.
02:16We've had people doing the hot dog dash around lots of different sculptures.
02:20We've had people cycling around all the sculptures.
02:23We've had people out raising money in all sorts of various ways.
02:27We're from corporates.
02:29We've engaged with communities, individuals and families.
02:33And we're just tossing it all up at the moment.
02:35So come auction night, we're ready to tell everybody how much we've raised so far.
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