 The Grand Appeal raised £12M towards the new building for the child-friendly hospital, which opened in April 2001.Since then, the charity has funded a wide variety of programmes for patients valued at over £5M including arts, entertainment, education, play and music programmes; equipment; family accommodation facilities; comforts for patients; ward enhancement and new medical facilities in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.At the beginning of July 2013, The Grand Appeal launched a project named Gromit Unleashed, a public art exhibition led by Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal and Aardman Animations, in which eighty tall artist-decorated fibreglass sculptures of Gromit were placed on the streets of Bristol and the surrounding area for ten weeks.