Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
At a glance
Key takeaways
- If your project improves health outcomes or experience for seriously ill children, through research, patient and family services, equipment or child-centred facilities, it fits the charity's priority areas, and its geographic focus is stated as the whole of the UK.
- The Everyday Impact Fund is open only to GOSH staff, so an outside charity should not apply to it, and no eligibility rules are given for its other schemes, so check with the charity before applying.
- Core NHS costs and services, including estates costs, are not funded, though medical equipment can be, so do not ask for running costs of the hospital's core services.
- The charity weighs positive impact, strategic alignment with charity, hospital or institute goals, value for money and financial sustainability beyond charitable funding, so show how your proposal meets these.
- Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, but no typical grant size is given for outside applicants, so test a modest request with the charity first.
Overview
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1160024).
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity, registered in England and Wales under charity number 1160024, exists to transform the lives of seriously ill children through research, care and advocacy. It funds work through open funding schemes and strategic grants across five priority areas: research, patient and family experience, technology and innovation, staff support, and major redevelopment and environment. The charity plans to commit £40m over the next five years to improving patient and family experience at GOSH, and it funds about £5m a year for services at Great Ormond Street Hospital that aim to improve that experience. The annual report shows £40,708,000 paid out in grants.
What they fund
Priority Areas
GOSH Charity funds projects and programmes that aim to improve the health outcomes and experience of children and young people at GOSH and nationally. Its priority areas are research, patient and family experience, technology and innovation, staff support, and major redevelopment and environment. It supports seriously ill children and their families through research into rare or complex health needs, patient and family services, equipment, and child-centred facilities. The charity combines open funding schemes with strategic grants and aims to support work that adds value beyond core NHS activity. Its decisions are guided by positive impact for beneficiaries, strategic alignment, value for money and the potential for lasting benefit. It funds research nationally, including work with hospitals and academic institutions across the UK, to improve child health and care.
Themes
- Research
- Patient and Family Experience
- Technology & Innovation
- Staff support
- Major Redevelopment & Environment
Geographic Focus
Priority: The whole of the UK.
What they don't fund
- Core NHS costs and services (including estates costs), except medical equipment due to VAT exemption
How to apply
GOSH staff across all departments and hospital areas, at every level, may apply to the Everyday Impact Fund for small projects that improve the experience of patients and their families at GOSH.
Who can apply:
- Everyday Impact Fund: Open to all GOSH Staff across all departments and areas of the hospital and at all levels
Application success factors
What the charity says:
- The charity considers seriously ill children and their families the ultimate beneficiaries.
- The charity values positive impact for beneficiaries in the short, medium and long term, with excellence and quality.
- The charity looks for strategic alignment with charity, hospital or institute goals.
- The charity values transformational impact that will lead to a step change.
- The charity considers financial sustainability plans beyond charitable funding.
- The charity considers value for money, including the use of unique assets.
- The charity aims not to compound existing healthcare inequalities.
Where they fund
Where it says it funds
- United Kingdom
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Five years of accounts
| Financial year | Income | Expenditure | Grants paid | Accounts document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| year to 31 March 2021 | £68,451,000 | £46,092,000 | £25,994,000 | Accounts for year to 31 March 2021 |
| year to 31 March 2022 | £74,541,000 | £59,205,000 | £22,997,000 | Accounts for year to 31 March 2022 |
| year to 31 March 2023 | £107,691,000 | £69,051,000 | £26,747,000 | Accounts for year to 31 March 2023 |
| year to 31 March 2024 | £131,210,000 | £93,211,000 | £42,960,000 | Accounts for year to 31 March 2024 |
| year to 31 March 2025 | £140,352,000 | £348,011,000 | £40,708,000 | Accounts for year to 31 March 2025 |
Income vs grants paid
IncomeGrants paid
Total value each financial year
Grants paid stayed within income across the 5 years shown.
- Grants paid, year to 31 March 2021; year to 31 March 2022; year to 31 March 2023; year to 31 March 2024: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).
- Grants paid, year to 31 March 2025: grants paid out in the year.
Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.
Sources
Registers and filings
Other sources
- gosh.org
- gosh.org/apply-for-funding · read on 31 October 2026
- gosh.org/apply-for-funding/how-we-decide-what-to-fund · read on 31 October 2026
- gosh.org/apply-for-funding/research · read on 31 October 2026
- gosh.org/apply-for-funding/patient-and-family-experience · read on 31 October 2026
- gosh.org/about-us/contact-us · read on 31 October 2026
- Annual report (year to 31 March 2025)
This profile draws on the funder’s own website as well as its filed accounts.
Sources last checked on 31 October 2026.
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