Supporting Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity

Despite the greatest challenges a child can face, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is a place where you’ll find some of the bravest people you could ever meet. And where the brightest minds come together to achieve pioneering medical breakthroughs that change the lives of thousands of children. That’s why Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity) has been our charity partner since 2012.

Now, we’re helping GOSH Charity take on a new fundraising challenge by raising £20 million by 2027 for their next life-changing cause – building the new Children’s Cancer Centre at GOSH.

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No one likes to think about children getting ill. But sadly, it’s a reality for many young people and their families. Every day, five families in the UK receive the devastating news that their child has cancer. And every day, young lives hang in the balance as patients, families and staff battle the most complex illnesses.

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Build it. Beat it.

The Build it. Beat it campaign is a fundraising appeal to help create a world-leading Children’s Cancer Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital. GOSH Charity aims to raise £300 million to help drive transformation in children’s cancer care and save even more lives.

Designed with the needs of children and families at its heart, the Children’s Cancer Centre at GOSH will be a state-of-the-art facility built to support children with some of the most complex and difficult-to-treat cancers.

This incredible centre will bring together inpatient wards, intensive care units and operating theatres under one roof, helping the hospital’s specialist teams work more closely together. As well as a cancer day care unit for children receiving chemotherapy treatment, the new Children’s Cancer Centre will also feature a hospital school and outdoor spaces like a roof garden, so children can still be children while they’re going through treatment.

GOSH already treats the highest number of children with cancer in the UK, and the hospital has a long history of pioneering medical advances and breakthroughs in cancer care. Investment in research and treatment has significantly improved survival rates, but cancer remains the most common cause of death in children aged one to 14, with some forms of cancer only having a 2% survival rate. That’s why building the new Children’s Cancer Centre is so important.

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Our GOSH journey so far

GOSH Charity has been our charity partner since 2012, and we couldn’t be prouder of what we’ve achieved together so far. Through donations made at our hotels and restaurants, as well as fundraising activities taken on by our team, we have raised an incredible £23 million, which has helped the charity reach some milestone achievements – like opening the Premier Inn Clinical Building in 2018, as well as Sight and Sound Centre in 2021.

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How The Premier Inn Clinical Building is making a difference

In 2012, Whitbread pledged to raise £7.5 million towards a brand new medical facility at the hospital. The Premier Inn Clinical building opened its doors in 2018 allowing hundreds of patients to be treated in brand new facilities including new in-patient wards, operating theatres and a day care unit.

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GOSH welcomes patients to their Sight and Sound Centre for children

With the help of a £10 million pledge from Premier Inn, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity) contributed £25 million towards the opening of this unique new centre, welcoming its first patients on Monday 21 June 2021. This incredible building is the UK’s first dedicated medical facility for children with sight and hearing loss and will aid over 8000 children a year.

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Bernard bear

Look out for our lovely cuddly bear called Bernard in our hotels which you can buy and take home to bed. Bernard costs £10 and all profits are being donated to GOSH. Just pop him on your room bill when you check out.