HOBBS House Bakery has handed over a lot of dough to the Grand Appeal to help sick children in Bristol.

The Chipping Sodbury company raised £3,750 for the Wallace and Gromit appeal over the summer by selling Shaun the Sheep biscuits, as part of the Shaun in the City trail which saw glass fibre figures of the popular Aardman Animations character located all over Bristol.

The hand-iced biscuits were available all over the city, including from The Grand Appeal’s shop opposite the children’s hospital, and the official ‘Shaun in the City’ shop at The Mall at Cribbs Causeway. Local businesses and organisations also flocked to order boxes of biscuits, and at the height of the trail Hobbs House was baking around 1,000 a day.

A donation was made to the charity for each biscuit sold and by the end of the ‘Great Sheep Round Up’ Exhibition in Bristol in September they had raised a tasty £3,750.40.

The Shaun in the City trail saw 70 individually-designed sculptures installed across Bristol this July and August, before being auctioned earlier this month in aid of The Grand Appeal, the Bristol Children’s Hospital charity, raising more than £1million.

The Grand Appeal will use the money raised by the Bristol trail to expand the family accommodation it provides at Bristol Children’s Hospital and St Michael’s Hospital neonatal intensive care unit.

Tom Herbert, from Hobbs House Bakery, said: “It was fantastic to be a part of this summer’s Shaun in the City trail in Bristol and we’re delighted that our biscuits proved so popular with Shaun-hunters.

“Hobbs House is a fifth-generation business and family is at the heart of everything we do, so it is very rewarding to know that the money we have raised will help The Grand Appeal to provide even more accommodation for families, so that they can be with their child throughout their treatment.”

Nicola Masters, director, The Grand Appeal, said: “We’d like to say a huge thank you to Hobbs House Bakery for their support of the Shaun in the City trail. Their brilliant bakers made and iced each biscuit by hand, and it was wonderful to see boxes of them on sale in so many different shops, cafes and businesses across the city.

“The money raised, alongside the funds raised at our auction, means we are well on our way to the £1.5million we need to double our current family accommodation capacity, helping us support even more sick children and babies from across the region, and keep families together.”