Christmas fundraising ideas and charity giving | GOSH Charity
From Christmas fundraisers at school and carol concerts for your neighbours to fun festive parties at home, we have a variety of fundraising ideas for you to explore.
By fun-raising, you’ll help Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity) bring comfort, hope and joy to seriously ill children and their families this Christmas.
Our top Christmas fundraising ideas:
Get crafty – sell all your Christmas crafts, from customised baubles and stockings to personalised gifts and stocking-fillers.
Set up a gift-wrapping station – wrap your friends’, family’s or colleagues’ Christmas presents in exchange for donations.
Have a Christmas party! Dust off your sequins and celebrate in style: take a look at our guide to throwing a ball or gala. Plan a stunning meal, auction and some festive entertainment for your guests and start selling tickets.
Host a Christmas fair – get in the holiday spirit with raffles, Christmas treats, market stalls and entertainment. You can sell tickets as well as take donations on the day. Use this guide to start planning.
Collect those spare Christmas coins – organise a bucket collection at your local train station, shopping centre or at a festive event. View our guide to help plan your collection.
Christmas carol concert – find a venue and sell tickets, or go carolling in your community, collecting donations from listeners.
Festive Fridays – Get into the festive spirit! Whether you're with colleagues or friends and family, wear your favourite festive knitwear, add some tinsel to your hair or go all out with Christmas accessories. Encourage donations to take part.
Ho-ho-hold your own Santa dash – organise a festive fun run with your local community. Just decide a date, time, local route and then make sure everyone wears their Santa hats!
How to get started with your Christmas fundraiser
Found your inspiration for your fundraiser this year? Keep us in the know by registering today.
Why fundraise at Christmas?
Serious illness doesn't stop for Christmas. And neither does childhood.
This Christmas, your fundraising for GOSH Charity could help keep families close, bring joy to the wards and fund vital research into new treatments and cures for childhood illness.
No child should have to spend Christmas time in hospital. But if they have to, we do everything we can to make it the best it can be.
Join us.
Bonus ideas for New Year fundraising
Make a positive change this January – start the new year by trying something new or making a change, and ask friends and family to sponsor you. Find more inspiration with our New Year New Me challenge.
Is your New Year’s resolution to run? We can give you the motivation you need – just sign up to one of our many fantastic runs happening in 2027.
Time to declutter! The new year is the perfect time to pass on the things you no longer need. Sell them, give them a new home and donate the proceeds to GOSH Charity.
How to pay in your festive fundraising
Paying in your Christmas fundraising couldn’t be easier. You can either:
Call us on 020 3841 3841 · Email community.events@gosh.org for details of paying by bank transfer
Post cheques and CAF vouchers to: Community Fundraising, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, 40 Bernard Street, London, WC1N 1LE. Please include a paying-in form
If you’ve fundraised using JustGiving or Facebook, there’s nothing you need to do – the money will make its way straight to us
Get in touch
If you need any help with your fundraising, check our FAQs, email community.events@gosh.org or give us a call on 020 3841 3131 and we'll be happy to help.