Coming to GOSH
GO Create!
Arts and Humanities programme
GOSH staff Culture Club
As well as programming creative activities for our patients, visitors and families we are keen to enhance the lives of staff working at GOSH. As part of this commitment we have established the GO Create! GOSH staff Culture Club programme.
The Culture Club provides an opportunity for staff to balance their work life with the benefits of creative activities. Offering this programme is a way of saying thank you to staff for everything they do to make GOSH the place it is. Wherever possible we aim to make Culture Club activities free and keep them varied and exciting, making them appealing to a wide audience. In addition, the Culture Club provides opportunities for self expression and personal development. It is also a way for staff across the Trust to come together to enjoy activities not related to their everyday work life.
The programme is now in its second year. Throughout the summers of 2007 and 08, a series of events specifically for GOSH staff were arranged at local museums providing an opportunity to engage with the rich cultural wealth that surrounds Great Ormond Street.
In 2007 the Culture Club visited:
- The British Museum's Enlightenment Gallery
- Parthenon Marbles Gallery at the British Museum
- Living and Dying exhibition at the British Museum
- Hunterian Museum
- Wellcome Trust Collection
In 2008 the Culture Club visited:
- The British Museum (Hadrian: Empire & Conflict & Egyptian Death & Afterlife)
- GOSH Museum and Archives
- Charles Dickens Museum London
- Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England
- The Wellcome Trust Collection (London’s Buried Bones & Medicine Man exhibitions)
- The Foundling Museum
Some of the feedback from our events has been:
“I liked being part of a group and meeting and talking to colleagues from various departments within GOSH”
“Brilliant – all of it!”
“Very educational and informative”
Forthcoming Culture Club events
We have successfully secured funding to continue the Staff Culture Club for the next three years and would encourage staff to participate in the events organised. Information on the 2009 Culture Club Programme will be posted on this website and to Culture Club members by email, in the coming months.
If you would like to become a member of the Culture Club or would like any further information, please contact Chanel Cole on GOCreate@gosh.nhs.uk
The British Museum – Preview of the Hadrian: Empire and Conflict Exhibition (July 2007)
UCL Institute of Child Health
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust