In your area

At Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity we have a small team of regional fundraisers and volunteers.

Our regional fundraiser team:

• Claire Ferguson, Surrey

• Martin Harris, London

• Our regional fundraisers are always pleased to hear from people eager to support the charity and the hospital. They can help you plan your event and offer advice on:

• gaining publicity through your local media

• seeking corporate sponsors from local businesses

• advice on how to obtain raffle prizes

• recruiting volunteers or support for your event

• how to obtain charity posters, literature, cash collection tins and stickers

• online sponsorship e.g. Just Giving

• health and safety guidance

Here are some of the organisations and groups we are currently working with:

• acting and drama groups

• book clubs

• colleges and Universities

• dance clubs

• festivals and carnivals

• floral societies

• golf clubs

• gyms and leisure centres

• horticultural societies / Gardening clubs

• individuals

• Inner Wheel

• libraries

• Lions

• local attractions

• masonic lodges

• mayors

• mother and toddlers groups

• operatic societies

• Probus clubs

• pubs

• religious groups

• restaurants

• Rotaract clubs

• Rotary clubs

• Round Table

• scouting groups

• Sea Cadets

• small businesses

• sports clubs

• theatre groups

• University of the Third Age

• volunteer centres

• women's institutes

• youth clubs

And here's how your gift could help

• £250 could help fund a play room for play therapy; an essential part of helping children get better quicker – as well as somewhere to have fun
  
  

• £500 could help fund a vital signs monitor, equipment used in many areas of the Hospital
  
  

• £1,000 could help fund a ventilator – life saving equipment used in our intensive care wards
  
  

• £1,500 could help towards the cost of the Morgan Stanley New Clinical Building- which will provide the modern, world –class facilities our patients and their families deserve
  
  

• £2,500 could help towards the cost of an ECMO machine, which takes over the function of a child’s heart and lungs when their own have failed

If you have a fundraising idea then please get in touch - we would love to hear from you.