A VERY special visitor will be making an appearance at Forest Green Rovers home match on Saturday – with the Cath Kidston designed Gromit sculpture coming to The New Lawn for the clash against AFC Telford United (3pm).

The Cath Kidston Antique Rose Gromit, which featured in the popular Gromit Unleashed campaign in Bristol, will make its star appearance in the Carol Embrey Suite from 2pm, with home fans encouraged to have their picture taken with the sculpture.

Supporters will also have the chance to make a donation to the Bristol Children’s Hospital, which has so far raised more than £5 million for life-saving equipment and other facilities for the hospital through the Gromit Unleashed campaign.

The figure was originally designed by Cath Kidston as part of 80 fibreglass Gromit sculptures installed across Bristol in the summer of 2013.

After the installation closed, club sponsors Yate Supplies snapped up the sculpture for £30,000 at auction, and are kindly bringing the sculpture to the New Lawn this weekend to continue the Gromit Unleashed campaign.

Derek Aston, managing director at Yates Supplies, said: “Yate Supplies are the very proud owners of Antique Rose Gromit and we are really excited that he is going to visit the New Lawn this weekend, and he will be really pleased for all your donations for The Grand Appeal."

Saturday’s match against Telford is also a Kids Go Free game for anyone under 16: fans can get their Kids Go Free tickets online at the FGR website using the special voucher code KGFTEL15.