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A photo of the bedrooms in the new Powis Place Accommodation, showing a double bed, a bright window, a yellow chair and small desk.

GOSH Charity opens new family accommodation

9 Aug 2022, 3 p.m.

We have two new parent and carer accommodation complexes, established with the support of GOSH Charity partners. Just ninety seconds from GOSH, they provide parents and carers of one of our patients with a free place to stay.

GOSH Charity Play Date with a photo of kids playing in a field

Host a Play Date for GOSH Charity

20 May 2022, 4 p.m.

Host a Play Date this July and raise money to help fund our amazing Play team. Learn about GOSH Charity's upcoming event below.

Margot's nurse, Hannah, on Flamingo ward in her uniform.

Supporting families through difficult times

12 May 2022, 7 a.m.

Last year, Hannah, one of our intensive care nurses, supported a family through an incredibly difficult time in their lives, when their daughter Margot sadly passed away 24 hours after she was born...

Patient Henry pictured with mum, Shevonne.

Henry: our animated festive hero

2 Dec 2021, 1:24 p.m.

This year, 4-year-old Henry and his family will be home for the festive season, having spent Henry's first two at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). As part of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity’s Christmas campaign, enjoy our film.

The Power of Play

8 Sep 2021, 9:30 a.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital’s expert Play team knows play can help children cope with whatever life throws at them. They've teamed up with GOSH Charity to share expert play tips and resources with parents across the UK.

Gene therapy offers hope to children with rare and fatal brain diseases

29 Jun 2021, 10 a.m.

Scientists and doctors at UCL GOS ICH and GOSH have given hope of a gene therapy cure to children with a rare degenerative brain disorder called Dopamine Transporter Deficiency Syndrome (DTDS)

50th patient treated with thymus transplant at GOSH

12 Apr 2021, 3:44 p.m.

The 50th patient was treated at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children last month with a pioneering treatment to transplant otherwise-discarded thymus tissue into very young children who lack a working thymus.

GOSH Charity Launches Families Appeal

22 Feb 2021, 9:34 a.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity) has recently launched the Families Appeal - a new campaign to support children and families that come to GOSH every day.

Zog and the Flying Doctors

23 Dec 2020, 1 p.m.

For Christmas 2020, Scholastic has worked with staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) on the UK’s number one picture book pair Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler for a timely celebration of doctors, nurses, carers and hospital staff.

NHS Charities Together donation helps support GOSH staff disproportionately affected by COVID-19

2 Dec 2020, 2:34 p.m.

NHS Charities Together, the umbrella organisation for NHS Charities, has donated a further £50,000 to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity) to help support GOSH staff who are disproportionately affected by COVID-19.

Still from animation showing GOSH staff decorating the hospital wards

Home for Christmas campaign - GOSH Charity's magical animation

24 Nov 2020, 12:30 p.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity) has launched its new campaign “Home for Christmas”.

illustration of penguin, reindeer, robin, snowman and fox, with snow falling

The Virtual Snow Ball 2020

21 Oct 2020, 12:26 p.m.

GOSH Charity's annual Snow Ball will be coming to GOSH patients virtually on 10 December 2020!

GOSH Charity launches The Power of Play

21 Apr 2020, 9:07 a.m.

To support families through this challenging time, Great Ormond Street Hospital’s (GOSH) Play team have assembled a treasure trove of advice, games and articles to help children and young people across the UK and beyond cope with today’s uncertainties.

Through Piper's Eyes

16 Feb 2020, 10:53 a.m.

Two-year-old Piper has spent her life so far visiting Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) after being diagnosed with a rare condition that caused her to be blind from birth. Her mum, Jade, shares their story.

Christmas at GOSH: Lily's story

5 Dec 2019, 3:55 p.m.

Lily, who features in The Sun’s Quids for Kids Appeal, was treated at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for a type of cancer called acute myeloid leukaemia. We caught up with Lily's mum, Sam and one of Lily's Play Specialists, Lizzie Penn, to learn more

Raise 'Quids for Kids' in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity

24 Nov 2019, 9:30 a.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital is delighted to have its supporting charity, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity) selected as one of the three charities to benefit from the ‘Quids for Kids’ Christmas fundraising appeal this year, ch

RBC Race for the Kids: GOSH’s fun run and family festival

16 Sep 2019, 9:56 a.m.

The work of Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has long depended on charitable support to go above and beyond for seriously ill children and their families. RBC Race for the Kids, Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity’s biggest fundraising event of the ye

A year with GOSH Arts

2 Aug 2019, 2:40 p.m.

"A hospital is a clinical place, but it can also be a cultural space - a community of potential audiences and artists." See some of GOSH Arts most exciting creative projects from the last year, in their new Shorthand web page.

Designing hoardings with a difference

3 Jun 2019, 2:43 p.m.

Artist Isobel Manning has been involved in an exciting project to transform the hoardings of the developing Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Sight and Sound Centre, supported by Premier Inn, into an accessible art installation.

Henry in the Eagle Ward play room interacting with the VR camera

Experience Great Ormond Street Hospital in VR

14 Feb 2019, 9:30 a.m.

We've opened our (digital) doors – come in and visit us in virtual space.