The Tick Tock Club - GOSH Charity’s giving club
What is the Tick Tock Club?
In JM Barrie’s classic tale Peter Pan, Tick Tock, the crocodile who swallows a clock represents the march of time.
The GOSH Charity Tick Tock Club reflects that same urgency, supporting the most critical priorities at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and enabling its world-class teams to provide the best possible care.
Members of the Tick Tock Club come together to make a transformational impact and a real, lasting difference to thousands of seriously ill children from across the UK and beyond. In return, members receive several exclusive benefits, including:
- Biannual updates
- Opportunities to meet leading paediatric specialists, researchers, and staff at GOSH
- Invitations to members-only events
- Recognition within the new Critical Care Unit the club is supporting
A transformational impact
To date, the Tick Tock Club has raised over £50 million to help create three world-class clinical centres and one new iMRI Suite at GOSH.
The suite includes an MRI scanner that provides high-definition images of a child’s brain during an operation. This enables surgeons to interpret real-time imaging and agree how best to proceed with the patient’s surgery, which improves the accuracy of epilepsy and brain tumour surgeries and increases patient safety.
"We need your support to build an incredible new Critical Care Unit, for the most seriously ill children, from across the UK and beyond, who come to GOSH. Help us bring the facilities in line with the care. Support those children, those families, those staff who are dealing with the toughest times. Support the Tick Tock Club."
Together we can build a new Critical Care Unit
The current appeal, to build a new Critical Care Unit (CCU) at GOSH, is the most ambitious appeal to date. The Tick Tock Club has raised over £6 million since the appeal launched in April 2023 – but there is still more work to do.
While GOSH’s expert teams deliver exceptional treatment, the current facilities are no longer fit for purpose – lacking space, comfort and access to outdoor areas for the 1,400 seriously ill children treated in the existing CCU each year.
Critical care has advanced significantly over the last few decades, and we are determined for our facilities to reflect this.
We’re asking for your support towards building a revolutionary new Critical Care Unit within the new Children’s Cancer Centre.
The new CCU will provide a welcoming and comfortable space for families to stay with their children, while ensuring GOSH staff are able to deliver life-saving care and get the respite they need during a long shift.
Key aspects of the new unit include:
- Eight state-of-the-art advanced care beds for critically ill children
- On-site accommodation so parents can stay with their children throughout treatment
- Two outdoor balconies for play and respite for both patients and medical experts
- Expanded staff facilities and rest areas
- A focus on staff wellbeing
- Welcoming reception and lounge
Make your legacy count
For over 170 years, philanthropists including Charles Dickens, JM Barrie and Queen Victoria have recognised and supported the vital work at GOSH.
The Tick Tock Club would be honoured to work alongside you to bring the vision of a new Critical Care Unit to life.
On behalf of the patients, families and staff at GOSH, and everyone at GOSH Charity, thank you for considering a gift towards the new Critical Care Unit.
