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26th November 2023

Great Ormond Street shares ‘exciting’ update on Smiles-sponsored research into brain birth defect

Smiles With Grace has received an exciting update from researchers looking into the brain defect encephalocele. Professor Andy Copp at the Institute of Children’s Health and Dominic Thompson, Grace’s Neurosurgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), say research into the defect is “progressing well” and that there is preliminary evidence […]

20th February 2022

Smiles With Grace to sponsor GOSH’s ground-breaking research into encephalocele

Smiles With Grace will be the sole supporter of Great Ormond Street Hospital’s study into the rare, birth defect, encephalocele, with a £74,261 investment. Grace’s Neurosurgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), Dominic Thompson, and Professor Andy Copp at The Institute for Children’s Health will collaborate to conduct the ground-breaking, two-year […]

3rd October 2021

Smiles with Grace celebrates its 10-Year anniversary with a further significant £74k sponsorship at GOSH over 10 years

It’s been 10 years since Grace Boxall founded Smiles with Grace, with the aim to support projects to help sick children throughout England and Wales.

16th October 2020

Tom Bromwich dropped off Smiles With Grace Christmas cards at Cards for Good Causes

‘Smiles With Grace’ Christmas Cards and ‘Cards for Good Causes’

A couple of weeks ago, our lovely patron, Tom Bromwich did an amazing job dropping some of our lovely Smiles Christmas cards to Cards for Good Causes.

1st September 2019

Mark takes the ultimate cut in Grace’s memory

******* Mark had never met Grace but when he heard about her story and the wonderful work that Smiles with Grace does, he wanted to contribute. Being a bit precious about his hair, he thought shaving it off would be the thing to do, raising over £1,000 in the process. […]

16th May 2019

Smiles Study update May 2019

Here is the latest positive update on the Smiles Study form UCH/GOSH; Very excitingly the results of the whole genome sequencing has highlighted some really interesting candidate genes that we are looking into in more detail. The two genes that we were most interested in (and had been published by […]

23rd January 2019

Buy on Amazon and help Smiles

We have joined up with Amazon’s campaign to help charities. For any purchase you make on Amazon they will donate 0.5% to Smiles. Either simply go to SmilesAmazon when making a purchase or follow this link: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/ch/1142330-0

23rd January 2019

Thank you Eleanor Laing MP

************************** Eleanor Laing MP and Deputy Speaker kindly supported Smiles on her Christmas card. Eleanor was extremely supportive during Grace’s final years and we thank her for this. The card raised £250 for the charity. Thank you to Eleanor and her staff. ***********************

11th January 2019

Smiles Study Update January 2019

***************** Smiles is working on a couple of ground breaking studies with Professor Andy Copp at the Institute of Child Health at UCL and Dominic Thompson at Great Ormond Street. Dominic was Grace’s Neuro-Surgeon. Throughout the web site you will find progress reports, together with a report from one of […]