THEN, NOW, ALWAYS: OUR MISSION NEVER CHANGES IMPACT REPORT 2017/18 NAVEEN, AGE SEVEN Naveen comes to GOSH regularly. He is recovering after recent spinal surgery on Sky Ward. OUR MISSION Our mission at Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity) is to enhance Great Ormond Street Hospital’s (GOSH) ability to transform the health and wellbeing of children and young people, giving them the best chance to fulfil their potential. On behalf of the hospital's young patients, their families and the staff at the hospital and charity, thank you. We will always be grateful for your support. Impact Report 2017/18 3 THEN, NOW, ALWAYS 2017/2018 GOSH wouldn't be the place it is without 800+ the millions of people who have supported £99.4m it. From the day we opened to today, your tireless event volunteers raised by you – generously gave their time incredible fundraising efforts have improved our best fundraising year ever! and energy to whoop, cheer and help events the lives of seriously ill children. They will run smoothly, raising vital always need us. And we will always need you. 13,000+ funds for GOSH. Bernard Bears sold at Premier 1855 31,759 Inns across the country in 2017, raising an impressive £80,000. Go Bernard! 152 raffle players took we received our first legacy a chance to win, raising gift. Legacies continue to be a £588,799 in the process. volunteer community vital part of our income today. ambassadors delivered 10 45 outreach talks in local communities this year, helping us reach 3,500 people. the number of beds when GOSH opened. Today, 11,694 there are 455. 2,000 people ran, pedalled, £54m paddled and perspired patients and their families in sporting events for enjoyed festive frolics at GOSH this year. our Snow Ball. raised through the incredible Wishing Well Appeal. People 1929 from all over the country came together to help us open the Variety Club Building in 1994 to replace buildings that were no JM Barrie donated the copyright longer able to meet the needs of Peter Pan to GOSH. The magical of GOSH’s patients. 1 story continues to raise vital funds £136,000 for the hospital, but we promised JM Barrie we’d always keep the member of the Royal Family amount private. paid us a visit to celebrate raised by Smyths Toys and the completion of the Mittal our friend ‘Snot – the toy no Children’s Medical Centre by one wanted’, during their 2017 opening the new Premier Inn Christmas campaign. Clinical Building. 4 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity Impact Report 2017/18 5 SHEILA Sheila started volunteering for GOSH Charity 30 years ago, supporting our Wishing Well Appeal. Since then, she's helped at many events and spent countless hours volunteering in the charity offices. 6 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity Impact Report 2017/18 7 A MEMORABLE YEAR Since its doors first opened in 1852, GOSH has relied heart surgery is an option for more children, and The coming year promises to be just as exciting. on the tremendous generosity of people like you. a new scanner that will tell doctors more about Thanks to GOSH Charity funding, work will start on And while every year brings new challenges, your what’s going on inside the cells of the body – a new medical centre tailored around the needs of unwavering support means GOSH Charity can helping to diagnose diseases and monitor whether children with sight and hearing loss. We are also continue to support the hospital in a wide variety treatments are working. And that’s not all. We also looking forward to the completion of the Zayed of ways, allowing its groundbreaking work to invested in an advanced intraoperative MRI (iMRI) Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children, and continue day in, day out. suite that will allow the hospital to scan children together, GOSH Charity and Sparks will launch our second national call for research projects. We will also during brain surgery – reducing the need for repeat It’s 30 years since the launch of the Wishing Well continue to ensure we maintain the highest standards operations. And we funded the appointment of Appeal – a very successful fundraising campaign of governance, to protect you, our supporters. two world-leading professors in brain tumour that laid the foundations for the charity we and stem cell biology. These are just a few of the With your help, the year ahead promises to be just as are today. This year is also the third year of our highlights of what we’ve achieved, thanks to you. impactful and we look forward to sharing more with ambitious five-year strategy, Raising Our Sights: you over the coming months. A 2020 Vision. With those things in mind, we are When it comes to fundraising, the creativity and absolutely delighted that, thanks to your ongoing enthusiasm behind your efforts always amazes dedication, we have had our best fundraising year us, and this year they have been more diverse, ever. The £99.4 million you have helped to raise determined and dynamic than ever! Scores of will go towards changing the lives of seriously ill you have taken part in sporting events, bake children both now and in the future. Thank you sales, skydives and tower climbs, and increasing so much. numbers of you are giving what you can monthly. We’ve continued to benefit from exciting corporate It would be impossible to reflect on the last partnerships and received some transformational year without mentioning an incredibly special gifts from individuals. day – the completion of the Mittal Children’s Medical Centre, with the opening of the Premier This was also our first year of partnership with Inn Clinical Building. We were delighted that Her the children’s medical research charity Sparks, Royal Highness (HRH) The Duchess of Cambridge which is now part of the GOSH Charity family. John Connolly Tim Johnson was able to lead the formal opening ceremony Testament to the power of partnership, we had Chairman of Trustees Chief Executive in January. What makes this building so special great success with our first joint national call for GOSH Charity GOSH Charity is not just the incredible benefits it brings for research, receiving more applications from medical patients, families and hospital staff, but the fact researchers than ever before. An incredible £2.1 that the majority of funding came from people like million was invested into 14 pioneering paediatric you. Without your support, the new centre would research projects from across the nation. never have been built. We know that the children, Sparks' fundraising also went from strength to families and staff at GOSH are grateful for the strength with record years for the Rugby Legends' difference the new facilities are making now, and Dinner and Clay Pigeon Shoots, and more people the benefits they will bring for many years to come. than ever applying to run the Virgin Money London It’s also been a great year for state-of-the art Marathon. It has all contributed to a fantastic fundraising year and we are incredibly grateful to technology and research. We have committed to everyone involved. providing new facilities that will mean less invasive 8 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity Impact Report 2017/18 9 HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE YEAR Spooktacular weekend Running for GOSH Immune systems restored Children from GOSH attend a special Children, families, hospital staff and GOSH clinicians demonstrate that a little-known Halloween party to celebrate our Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) employees gland of the immune system can be transplanted into partnership with Premier Inn & join over 4,000 people in Hyde Park, children like Aidan (left) with life-threatening DiGeorge Restaurants reaching a phenomenal London at RBC Race for the Kids, a 5k syndrome, restoring their ability to fight off infections. APRIL 2017 £10 million milestone. fun run to raise vital funds. Supporting innovation New stem cell facility Funding boost for arthritis research in surgery A state-of-the-art stem cell research facility The Centre for Adolescent As part of a drive to opens at the UCL Great Ormond Street Rheumatology receives £2 million. support much-needed Institute of Child Health (ICH). Researchers This unique centre is funded by surgical research, we are developing ways of using a child’s Arthritis Research UK in partnership appoint Sebastian own cells to treat conditions affecting the with GOSH Charity. Toescu as our first muscles, liver, brain and sight. surgical scientist. A new roof for research Genetic eye screening test launched Four-legged festivities nationally We celebrate the topping out of the Zayed Centre ITV presenter Paul O'Grady for Research, the point when construction reaches Developed by GOSH and ICH pays a Christmas visit to researchers, Oculome looks for its highest point. The building was made possible by GOSH with some of his furry a transformational gift from Her Highness Sheikha mistakes in more than 400 genes friends from Battersea Dogs known to lead to eye disease. The Fatima bint Mubarak, the wife of the late Sheikh & Cats Home. Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. test is now available across the NHS. A very special visitor HRH The Duchess of Cambridge visits Funding child health research around the UK patients, families and staff for the GOSH Charity and Sparks announce an official opening of the Mittal Children’s investment of £2.1 million in 14 child health Medical Centre, home to the new research projects across the UK. p24 Premier Inn Clinical Building. p48 Arthritis collaboration grows 2018 MARCH Two new research leaders Back to the eighties Researchers from the ICH and GOSH are awarded £5 We announce two new GOSH Charity We go retro with million to lead a national study to find better treatments Professors: stem cell biology expert 1980s-themed for children like Joe (left) with juvenile idiopathic arthritis Rick Livesey (left) and leading cancer campaign 'Then.