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Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity raises money to enable the hospital to provide world class care and to pioneer new treatments and cures for childhood illnesses. With over 255,000 patient visits to the hospital every year, the charity needs the support of fundraisers and volunteers to help us continue to give hope to young patients and their families and .
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Description

We are Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity). We stop at nothing to help give seriously ill children the best chance and the best childhoods possible. We do it by funding groundbreaking research, cutting-edge medical equipment and life-changing support. For the children from all over the UK who are treated by Great Ormond Street Hospital every day. For children with rare or complex illnesses everywhere. For this generation and all those to come. Because we believe no childhood should be lost to serious illness.

Be part of it.

The 2025 TCS London Marathon

On Sunday 27 April 2025, over 450 runners will be taking on 26.2 miles for TeamGOSH, all raising money for seriously ill children at Great Ormond Street Hospital. 

How you’ll make a difference

Do you enjoy being part of amazing experiences that help others create memorable memories, and want to be part of the iconic TCS London Marathon? This is the role for you.

We’d like you to offer your time to help us cheer on our incredible GOSH Charity runners who are taking on the London Marathon. By joining the GOSH Charity team you’ll help to create an amazing atmosphere along the route, keeping our runners motivated. 

We are looking for a group of individuals to join and support our amazing Challenge Events team. The Challenge Events team sits within GOSH Charity’s Mass Participation team. We work with challenge event partners, like the London Marathon, to provide GOSH Charity supporters to take on amazing challenges in aid of GOSH Charity. 

Duties

You will be supporting TeamGOSH participants at one of our three cheer stations on the day. All of our cheer stations are based in London, and your role will be to cheer on our runners as they pass, helping us given them a fantastic on the day experience and an extra boost to get them across the finish line. 

Exact roles and timings will be allocated closer to the event day, however all our volunteers are valuable and important in making the event a success. Our cheer station locations are; 

  • Cutty Sark (Mile 7) – Approx timings 9am – 1.30pm
  • Crossharbour (Mile 17) – Approx timings 11am - 4pm
  • Embankment (Mile 24) – Approx timings (Group 1; 11.30am-3.30pm, Group 2; 2.30pm-6.30pm)
Training
· Ongoing dedicated support from the Senior Challenge Events Executive, who is managing the London Marathon for GOSH Charity
· Regular updates how your support is making a difference
· Pre event briefing information via email and briefing on-the-day from the cheer station lead
· Volunteering Policy and Volunteer Handbook

Time commitment

The approximate full volunteer timings are detailed above, but if you can only do part of this, we would still welcome your support.
Application deadline

Categories

This organisation is one of our community partner organisations.

Like all volunteer recruiters we work with, they have signed up to our service standards, agreeing to abide by our policy on partnership working to keep you safe and supported whilst you volunteer.

You’ll never be out of pocket for volunteering through us – with in-London travel expenses to and from your volunteering guaranteed.

In addition, the team here at Students’ Union UCL Volunteering Service is here to support you throughout your volunteering journey – you can get in touch with us at any time.