Kids with cancer deserve more than a hospital
Every year around 1,900* children in the UK are diagnosed with cancer. New, breakthrough treatments are giving hope to children across the UK, but these advances have outstripped GOSH’s current cancer facilities, and cancer is still the biggest killer of children aged one to 14*.
GOSH cares for children with the hardest to treat cancers, but we need a new home for breakthrough treatments and pioneering research. And because cancer shouldn’t get to steal anyone’s childhood, we need a place that’s more than a hospital.
The Children's Cancer Centre will be a school, a playground, a garden and so much more, so that children like five-year-old Rajveer don’t miss out on their childhoods.
Meet Rajveer
Rajveer was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) when she was three. She was transferred to GOSH within two days of her diagnosis and began an intensive two-year treatment plan. She faced difficult side effects from intensive chemotherapy and steroids, which meant she was isolated from family and friends.
Gurpreet, Rajveer's mum, tells us: “Within two days of being diagnosed with ALL, she had a port in place, they started chemotherapy, transfusions, platelets, everything. I had heard about chemotherapy, but until you see it happening you don’t really know. It’s quite scary and it was very intense.
“She missed doing normal things like going to the park or to play centres. They may seem like little things, but for a child going through cancer treatment, it's a big thing. They should be socialising with kids their own age and just having fun, but they can't. These are key moments when they are so little.”
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£100could help fund an adjustable treatment chair, so children can be as comfortable as possible.
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£250could help fund a ventilator in the hospital’s Critical Care Unit, for patients who can’t breathe on their own.
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£500could help fund a volumetric infusion pump, which helps doctors provide treatment that is tailored to a child’s needs.
You can be part of the next generation of cancer care
Rajveer is now on maintenance chemotherapy and has started primary school, but living with cancer meant she missed out on many of the moments that make up a childhood. The new Children’s Cancer Centre at GOSH will be the next generation of kids’ cancer care, where pioneering cancer treatments will save more children’s lives and give kids with cancer the best childhoods possible.
As well as housing a new critical care unit and digitally advanced inpatient wards, the Children’s Cancer Centre will be a home-from-home where kids with cancer can still be kids.
Your donation today could make such a huge difference to patients at GOSH. By being part of our plans to build a brand-new Children’s Cancer Centre, you’ll be helping to give so many seriously ill children the best care, the best chance and the best childhoods possible.
Other ways to give
By phone: 0330 002 1514
By post: GOSH Charity, Bumpers Way, Bumpers Farm, Chippenham, SN14 6NG
Your kind donation will be used towards funding the development of the new Children’s Cancer Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital. In the event that we cannot use your donation as originally intended, e.g. costs change, additional funds are received over and above our target, the needs of the hospital or patients change, or the project is no longer deliverable, we reserve the right to redirect funds for use in accordance with the charitable objectives of GOSH Charity.
*Cancer Research UK, Children's cancer statistics, accessed May 2025.