Frances Costelloe

Frances' fundraiser for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity

Fundraising for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
£1,980
raised of £1,200 target
Donations cannot currently be made to this page
Swimming 8Km over the month of June, 30 June 2024
In memory of Bibi
Childhood and cancer. Two words that should never go together, yet children are diagnosed with cancer every day. Help build the Childrens Cancer Centre at GOSH and save more lives.

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For the month of June I have decided to try and swim 8km to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital and their Children’s Cancer Centre. I have wanted to raise money for GOSH for a while but these swims and this fundraising are in memory Bibi.

Bibi was an incredible girl who was in my son’s class at school and who I had the pleasure to get to know. Her family are incredible people and the support that the community showed raising money to help Bibi fight cancer illustrated the goodness of people. If you would like to sponsor me please do so below - any amount would be truly amazing.

For those that sponsor me £40 or over I will send an art print in A4 in the photos of the Swimmers in London Fields watercolour. I will pay for this myself and cover the postage. They will be a signed limited edition of 100.

I will be documenting my swims on Instagram. I intend to swim 8 x 1km sessions. In all honesty I’ve only swum 1km once but I do swim a lot.

Wish me 🍀 luck !

Childhood and cancer. Two words that should never go together.

But every week, around five children in the UK lose their lives to cancer. Thats five families who are faced with the worst news possible.

A child doesnt have to die from cancer for it to take their life. It can take away their childhood, their opportunities to learn and even to have children of their own one day.

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) cares for children with the hardest to treat cancers. Were already pushing the boundaries. Pioneering research is underway to find the most effective treatments and cures, which give hope to children and their families.

But these advances have outstripped GOSHs current cancer care facilities, and the hospital needs a new home to create breakthrough therapies which will benefit children all over the world.

Help us build the new Childrens Cancer Centre at GOSH and save more childrens lives.

If you can help build it, you can help beat it.

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About the campaign

Childhood and cancer. Two words that should never go together, yet children are diagnosed with cancer every day. Help build the Childrens Cancer Centre at GOSH and save more lives.

About the charity

We are Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity. We stop at nothing to help give seriously ill children childhoods that are fuller, funner and longer. Because we believe no childhood should be lost to illness.

Donation summary

Total raised
£1,980.00
+ £482.50 Gift Aid
Online donations
£1,980.00
Offline donations
£0.00

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