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From fun-raising ideas to research breakthroughs and stories from the hospital, stay up to date on the latest from GOSH Charity.

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Lizzie smiling to camera while on the ward at GOSH. She's wearing a Christmas hat and standing next to a Christmas tree.

Play Specialist Lizzie reflects on 25 years at GOSH

19 Dec 2023, 1:16 p.m.

Lizzie started at GOSH as a volunteer in 1998. Twenty-five years on, she’s more passionate than ever about the vital role of play.

Naomi pictured at the event, conducting the choir

GOSH Frontage given powerful send-off ahead of Children's Cancer Centre build

8 Dec 2023, 12:27 p.m.

Earlier this week, over 100 singers from a variety of choirs in and around the local area came together to give a heart-warming farewell to Great Ormond Street Hospital’s Frontage Building on Great Ormond Street. This is ahead of works starting on t…

Portrait photograph of Professor Ulrika Kreicbergs

GOSH Charity and True Colours Trust announce funding partnership

7 Dec 2023, 4:02 p.m.

GOSH Charity and the True Colours Trust are delighted to announce a £500,000 five-year funding partnership towards the research programme of Professor Ulrika Kreicbergs, the new Chair in Palliative Care for Children and Young People at the Louis Dun…

GOSH patient Gabriel smiling and playing in park.

GOSH study into cancer care begins

5 Dec 2023, 1:39 p.m.

A new study into how autistic children and/or those with a learning disability experience and respond to cancer care and treatment started in October.

This new research will take place thanks to more than £188k from GOSH Charity’s National Call – the…

Orla wearing a Christmas Santa hat with a pink dummy in her mouth and wearing a flowery cardigan sitting on a hospital bed

In memory of Orla

22 Nov 2023, 10:18 a.m.

Orla was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumour in September 2022. Over six months, she underwent intense treatment at GOSH, which involved spending her second birthday, Christmas and New Year at the hospital. In April 2023, she rang the end-of-tre…