The OSCAR (Ocean and Shipping Community Advancing Children’s Health and Research) campaign is raising funds towards areas of urgent need at Great Ormond

Street Hospital (GOSH) and its research partner, the UCL Institute of Child Health.

The campaign is led by Phil Parry, Chairman of Spinnaker Consulting Ltd, whose son Oscar received lifesaving care for acute leukaemia at GOSH. After over five years of different therapies and being extremely unwell, Oscar became the first patient ever in the UK to receive a ground-breaking stem cell transplant, which was thankfully a success. Oscar is living proof of the importance of pioneering research.

We are aiming to raise £1 million for lifesaving medical research into childhood cancers and immune diseases. Our researchers are leading global advances in this field, reprogramming children’s natural disease-fighting immune cells to give them the best possible chance of overcoming their illnesses.

Through the OSCAR campaign, we have a unique opportunity to create a shared legacy, delivering tangible support to help advance pioneering medicine for children around the world. Your support is changing the future of paediatric medicine by helping our young patients’ immune systems to heal themselves.