Every day, 619 children and young people from across the UK arrive at GOSH. Every day, doctors and nurses battle the most complex illnesses, and the brightest minds come together to achieve pioneering medical breakthroughs.

One day my daughter was one of those 619 children. Having being diagnosed with Preprandial Hypoglycemia we were sent to GOSH to understand the why it happens and how to live with it. The work the teams at GOSH do is just remarkable. Not remarkable because of their medical knowledge although without it we would have been stuffed..... but the way the teams make you feel at ease, and allow you to also look after your child while they do what they need to do, but explain in simple terms what is going on.... Its hard to explain in words how the way they talk to you and the way they act and just make the process so at ease. The teams at GSOH are phenomenal, but this extraordinary hospital has always depended on charitable support to give seriously ill children the best chance to fulfil their potential.

In the past 160 years GOSH have been at the forefront of leading medical science 

• Appointing the UK’s first consultant paediatric surgeon, Denis Browne, in 1928.
• Opening the UK’s first heart and lung unit in 1947.
• Opening the UK’s first leukaemia research unit in 1961.
• Pioneering the first heart and lung bypass machine for children in 1962, to help repair heart problems.
• Performing the first successful bone marrow transplant in Britain in 1979, by the late Professor Roland Levinsky.
• Undertaking the world’s first stem cell supported tracheal transplant in a child in 2010.
• Becoming Europe’s first children’s hospital to offer a portable haemodialysis service in 2010.
• Opening Europe’s first research centre to tackle birth defects, the Newlife Birth Defects Research Centre, in 2012. 

I walking because of the support they gave my wife and I when our daughter was poorly. And to help raise just a proportion of the £100 million needed to keep them doing what they do best.... saving the lives of our children and allowing them to have a future.