Meet our partners
Transformational support from our corporate partners has helped build clinical buildings, open patient accommodation, fund the hospital’s Play team and so much more.
Every partnership makes a difference.
Together we can give seriously ill children the best chance and the best childhood possible.
Meet some of our partners
Premier Inn and Restaurants (Whitbread)
Our charity’s flagship partner is Premier Inn and Restaurants, the biggest hospitality company in the UK. Since 2012, Whitbread has been supporting our work through its Force For Good programme.
Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Whitbread’s team members, guests, and suppliers, an incredible £27.5 million has been raised for Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity) so far, through fundraising activities like sleep-a-thons, skydives and donations made during hotel stays.
This impressive amount helped fund the Premier Inn Clinical Building at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), which opened in 2018, as well as the Sight and Sound Centre supported by Premier Inn, which opened in 2021. The Sight and Sound Centre is the UK’s first dedicated facility for children with sight and hearing loss.
In 2022, following a company-wide partnership vote, Whitbread team members chose to continue supporting GOSH Charity by raising £20 million by 2027 as part of GOSH Charity’s Build it. Beat it. appeal. An incredible £10 million has already been raised towards building the new Children’s Cancer Centre, which will bring life-changing care and hope to children facing cancer.
We couldn’t be more excited about the future milestones we will achieve together.
Butlin's
Butlin’s, the Home of Entertainment, has partnered with GOSH since 2015, most recently pledging £1 million towards the Children's Cancer Centre.
The collaboration has its roots in 1938 when Sir Billy Butlin charged Sunday daytime visitors travelling on the Butlin’s Railway one shilling to enter Butlin’s resorts, with all proceeds going to GOSH.
Later, Butlin’s donated funds to help purchase the hospital’s first CT Scanner, and today a wide variety of fundraising methods are used to support the charity. These include guest donations when booking online and resort sales of co-branded products.
Butlin’s mascots, Billy and Bonnie, the entertainment teams and Redcoats bring zeal and energy to GOSH Charity events, such as the patient parties and RBC Race for the Kids.
Butlin’s support is very important to us at GOSH Charity, especially because it helps to fund the hospital’s Play team.
This toy-toting team helps makes hospital a little bit easier and a lot more fun, while helping to ease fears and concerns for patients, siblings and parents.
We’re delighted to have raised an incredible £1 million for GOSH Charity. This money has helped to fund the hospital’s most urgent needs, including ground-breaking research to help find new treatments and cures. Thanks to the amazing fundraising efforts of our team and guests, the money raised has helped many families in so many different ways. We look forward to continuing our support and hopefully raising even more money for this special charity.
Disney
GOSH and Disney have a long history together. In 1951, Walt Disney himself visited the hospital, beginning a legacy that would transform the lives of seriously ill children.
Nearly 60 years later, in 2010, Disney made an extraordinary commitment to raise £10 million to help fund the development of the Morgan Stanley Clinical Building, which is now a world-leading centre of heart, lung, kidney, and neurological care.
Following this, the Disney Reef opened – a colourful, underwater-themed outdoor play area that brings together special lights and sensory elements with Disney favourites, including Mickey Mouse and Goofy. Located at the heart of the hospital, the Disney Reef helps to create special moments of togetherness and provide inspiration to seriously ill children and their families.
Disney also continues to bring joy to those who need it the most at GOSH by delivering magical activities, such as character visits and bedside screenings of Disney films.
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
RBC is a global financial institution that has supported GOSH Charity since 2010 as part of its commitment to help communities prosper. It's been the main sponsor of our fun run, RBC Race for Kids, since 2010.
So far, RBC has raised over £6.5 million for GOSH Charity through employee fundraising, trading days, donations and more.
It's funded the Royal Bank of Canada Neurosciences Unit at the hospital, and is now funding the refurbishment of a parent accommodation site. Situated opposite GOSH, the accommodation will be called Royal Bank of Canada House.
RBC has also pledged £3 million towards the new Children's Cancer Centre at GOSH.
Costco Wholesale UK
GOSH Charity’s partnership with Costco Wholesale UK began in 2021, when it pledged to raise £1 million for the new Children’s Cancer Centre at GOSH, becoming our very first Founder Partner for this world-leading facility.
Since then, Costco Wholesale UK, along with its members and staff, have gone above and beyond in their fundraising efforts, raising a phenomenal £2.35 million to date!
Most of Costco Wholesale UK’s fundraising takes place during its annual Fundraising Fortnight, when staff sell items such as pin badges, pens, and paper bears for members to write messages of support for children at GOSH.
Since 2023, every year Costco Wholesale UK has donated 50p from every celebration cake sold over a one-month period, helping to make a lasting difference to the lives of seriously ill children treated at GOSH.
Alongside this, it generously supports our Play team with gifts in kind and shares our family stories far and wide to highlight the incredible impact of GOSH Charity.