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Brighter Future Funds

A rainbow on a white background. Underneath the rainbow the text reads Brighter Future Fund. The rainbow is in the style of a child's drawing.

A Brighter Future Fund is a lasting and meaningful way to remember your loved one, helping create a brighter future for seriously ill children at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and beyond.

Your Brighter Future Fund is a way for you to fundraise in memory alongside your family and friends. When you set up a Brighter Future Fund, you can tie all your events in memory of a loved one together, whether you’re fundraising yourself or others are organising a fundraiser.

Create a Brighter Future Fund

Setting up a Brighter Future Fund will create a lasting legacy for your loved one, helping to give seriously ill children at GOSH the best chance and the best childhood possible.

Your gifts in memory of your loved one will help enable kinder and better treatments, bringing hope for children with the rarest and most complex illnesses, and making hospital a little easier and a lot more fun for the thousands of children who are treated at GOSH every year.

Your Brighter Future Fund will have its own special logo, and you can set up a dedicated fundraising page where your friends and family can support you and remember your loved one, too.

A rainbow on a white background. Underneath the rainbow the test reads Brighter Future Fund. The rainbow is in the style of a child's drawing.

Your logo will include your loved one's name

If you’d like to find out more about setting up a Brighter Future Fund, please contact us, or set your fund up directly using this form.

The Lexi Mace Brighter Future Fund

Lexi with her mum, brother and sister. Lexi is a small baby wrapped in a blanket covered in teddies and held in her mum's arms. Her mum sits up on a blue hospital chair. On her left hand side is Lexi's older sister and on her right hand side is Lexi's brother. They are all smiling at the camera.

Annabelle and Luke couldn’t wait for their little sister to be born. When Lexi was welcomed into the world on a Friday in the middle of December, Sophie and Andrew, Lexi’s parents, were delighted. They proudly took her home to spend the perfect afternoon and evening as a new family of five.

Late that night, Lexi became ill and was taken to GOSH. Despite doctors’ best efforts, she died at just two days old.

Sophie and Andrew set up The Lexi Mace Brighter Future Fund to honour their daughter’s memory and give them a positive focus for the future.

"We can only feel grateful to Great Ormond Street Hospital. When the role of the doctors and nurses was no longer needed, the Family Liaison team took over and carried us through the worst week of our lives. They’ve continued to support us long after, helping us through a world we never knew before. When thinking of something positive we could do, my immediate thoughts were to raise money for the amazing hospital that tried to save our baby. Our little girl was with us for a moment, but she’s created a lifetime of love. Her legacy we hope will be one of a brighter future for the sickest of children and their families in a time of need.”

Sophie Mace, Lexi’s mum
Set up a Brighter Future Fund

Frequently asked questions about Brighter Future Funds

A Brighter Future Fund is one central fund in memory of someone special – built by you, your family and friends. Working together, you can create a lasting legacy in your loved one’s memory while helping seriously ill children.

See Lexi’s Brighter Future Fund.

At a time of loss, many people want to do something to help. A friend may sign up for a sponsored run, a relative might hold a bake sale, and a colleague may decide to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. However people choose to help – whether it's organising a fundraising event or making a regular gift to mark an important date – all the funds raised by you, your friends and family go into your loved one’s fund. You'll also get support and advice from us every step of the way.

Your gifts will help give seriously ill children childhoods that are fuller, funner and longer. Your donations could help fund groundbreaking research, cutting-edge medical equipment, and support services for children and their families.

If you’d like your donations to go towards one of our four key funding areas, please call us on 020 3841 3131 or email brighterfuturefunds@gosh.org to discuss.

We can provide advice and guidance on how to organise and publicise your fundraising events, plus lots of different materials, including collection boxes, posters, balloons and stickers. We also have a range of how-to guides and information on how to keep your event safe and legal on our fundraising pages. If you need more support, please call us on 020 3841 3131 or email brighterfuturefunds@gosh.org

There’s no requirement to use a JustGiving page, but it’s a safe and easy way to collect donations online. Anyone who wants to raise funds for your loved one’s Brighter Future Fund can also start a page, which can be easily linked to yours. This makes it easy to see at a glance how much money you’ve raised together for your loved one’s Brighter Future Fund.

This would mean our taking personal information from you, including passwords, so unfortunately, we’re unable to do this. It's easy to set up a page: Simply go to the JustGiving website and follow the instructions. This will take you through creating your page, adding your story and photos, and customising the email your donors will receive. For any assistance, please contact the JustGiving Customer Support team via help@justgiving.com or see their help section.

We have instructions on how to link individual pages to your Brighter Future Fund team page here. If you need more support, please contact us on 020 3841 3131 or email brighterfuturefunds@gosh.org

Find out how to set up your Brighter Future Fund team page here. If you need more support, please contact us on 020 3841 3131 or email brighterfuturefunds@gosh.org

You can extend your JustGiving page by following these instructions from JustGiving.

  • Contact us

    Email the Brighter Future Funds team or call 0203 841 3179

  • Bereavement support

    Thank you so much for fundraising for GOSH Charity at this difficult time. If you’re struggling with grief, help is available:

    If you’d like support following the death of a child cared for by GOSH, you can contact the hospital bereavement team.

    The Child death helpline is a free phone service for anyone affected by the death of a child. Call their helpline on 0800 282 986.

    If you’re grieving for someone who wasn’t a patient at GOSH, you can find information or speak to someone online or over the phone through Cruse Bereavement Support.

    If you’re supporting a child or young person who’s grieving, you can find support from Winston’s Wish.