The Tick Tock Club - GOSH Charity’s giving club
In JM Barrie’s classic tale, Peter Pan, the crocodile (Tick Tock) who swallowed a clock is a significant symbol, representing the march of time.
For us, the Tick Tock Club is a symbol of the hospital’s most urgent needs – and the need to make change.
The Tick Tock Club supports the most urgent priorities at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), providing our world-class team with the facilities to match and enabling them to give children and families the gift of time.
What is the Tick Tock Club?
Established in 2006, the Tick Tock Club at Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity) is a giving club for those who are passionate about children’s healthcare.
Members come together to make a transformational impact and a real, lasting difference to thousands of seriously ill children from across the UK and beyond.
Some of the benefits of joining the Tick Tock Club include:
- Becoming part of a world-class community helping to give children at GOSH the best chance and best childhood possible.
- Receiving bi-annual updates on the impact your support is making to the lives of children, their families, and hospital staff.
- Meeting other Tick Tock Club members, key paediatric specialists, researchers, and support staff on tours at GOSH and at charity gatherings.
- Invitations to exclusive events.
A transformational impact
To date, the Tick Tock Club has raised over £43 million to help create three world-class clinical centres and one new iMRI Suite at GOSH. This suite includes an MRI scanner that provides high-definition images of a child’s brain during an operation. This enables surgeons to interpret real-time imaging and agree how best to proceed with the patient’s surgery, which improves the accuracy of epilepsy and brain tumour surgeries and increases patient safety.
Together we can build a new Critical Care Unit
Our current appeal, to build a new Critical Care Unit (CCU) at GOSH, is our most ambitious appeal to date. We've raised £4.3 million since we launched in April 2023.
"We need your support to build an incredible new Critical Care Unit, for the most poorly children, from across the UK and beyond, who come to GOSH. Help us bring the facilities in line with the care. Support those children, those families, those staff who are dealing with the toughest times. Support the Tick Tock Club."
The CCU at GOSH is where the most seriously ill children from across the UK are treated. But the hospital’s current CCU is not fit for purpose. The facilities are neither spacious nor comfortable for the 1,300 children treated there every year - or their families who want to be near them. The amazing staff provide exceptional care to these patients, but the current facilities are holding them back.
Within our revolutionary new Children’s Cancer Centre, we need to build a new CCU.
It will span the entire fourth floor of the new centre, which has been designed in collaboration with clinical experts to ensure our facilities can help them deliver exceptional critical care at GOSH.
But we can’t build it without you.