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The Province of Suffolk started delivering TLC teddies in 2005 and since then we have given out just over 25,500 bears to local hospitals etc.

The hospitals we cover are

Ipswich Heath Road and James Paget near Great Yarmouth.

In addition, we now give bears to Waveney Ambulance Depot and the new “Support Bear” to Feathers Future, a women’s refuge in Great Yarmouth.

TLC ‘Support’ Teddy

All TLC charities donate hospital teddies to A&E and minor injuries clinics. Over the last few years however, many Provinces have also started donating these teddies to hospital wards, refugees, hospices, women’s refuges.

To support the donation of TLC teddies to these organisations and hospital departments, we have developed a second bear called the ‘Support Teddy’.

The wording on the label of the Support Teddy is more appropriate for children who are in real need of a comforting teddy but aren’t necessarily ‘in distress’. In particular those children in bereavement counselling or finding themselves in a refuge.