#Great Ormond Street Hospital

[royalchildreneurope]

Tessy Antony De Nassau and Prince Noah of Nassau attend a fundraiser for Great Ormond Street Hospital -November 3rd 2023.

📷 : Tessy Antony De Nassau on Instagram.

[alwaysahiccupandastrid]

I’m fully convinced that the main reason Disney have made Peter Pan and Wendy a Disney+ release and not released it in the cinemas is because this way they don’t have to pay any money made at the box office to Great Ormond Street Hospital (a children’s hospital which receives royalties from any and all things related to Peter Pan)

If I’m wrong and GOSH are in fact profiting from this remake, then please let me know but… yeah.

[geekynerfherder]

2023 Charity calendar from Alternative Movie Posters.

A4 sized calendar in a limited edition of 150 with 3 donation options at £20, £25 and £30, and featuring a full length spread for each month with artwork by Hannah Gillingham, Tom Coupland, Kevin Bravo, Kirk Moffatt, Alex Murray, Angel Trancon, Eileen Steinbach, Scott Balmer, Tony Parkash, Juan Esteban Rodriguez, Halil Karasu and Kate Dykstra.

All profits go to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

On sale now through Alternative Movie Posters.

[chadstjames]

Explored Bloomsbury today. It has a rich literary history where some of the greats spent time there such as Virginia Woolf

I visited Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital where J.M. Barrie donated the rights to Peter Pan. I was pleased to see David who I met during my last visit still worked there.

Had a pint at the Ten Bells in Whitechapel. The pub has ties to the story of Jack the Ripper. Specifically his two victims, Annie Chapman and Mary Jane Kelly who were said to be regulars.

I really do love London. Every where you look, there’s a piece of history.

[insidecroydon]

Holloway to return as manager at Selhurst - for a good cause

Goals 4 GOSH, a charity football fixture that has already raised more than £100,000 for a children’s hospital, is returning to Selhurst Park on May 26. Coming back: Ian Holloway will be on the Selhurst Park touchline again for Goals 4 GOSH Among the celebrities expected to put on their football boots for this worthy cause are Paul Gorton and Harry Clark from BBC television’s The Traitors, while…

[teamivankaye]

Just dropped by Ivan on Twitter: First shot of the ELF! 👌😄👑 New Christmas charity single for the Great Ormond Street Hospital by @sagamusictv available for pre-order now! 🎄✨️

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[rebeccastackauthor]

Not long now for my stall at the Charity Christmas Fayre in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital. Pop along to get your copy of Gordon and/or Addy if you're in the area - be great to see you there. There'll be face painting, cakes, sweets, craft stalls, jewellery, personalised item stalls too.

Sunday 11th November 11 till 4 at Llanyrafon Social Club - Christmas Fayre in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital with face painting, my books, cakes, sweets, raffles, personalised gifts, craft stalls and jewellery

[havithreatendub4]

#Finding Neverland #2004 premiere #London UK

[fuzzysparrow]

In what year did Great Ormond Street Hospital open in London?

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) opened as the Hospital for Sick Children on 14th February 1852, the first UK hospital dedicated to inpatient care for children. GOSH is a children’s hospital in the Bloomsbury area of London that has been in practice for over one and a half centuries. Every day, over 600 children or young people arrive at the hospital for life-changing treatment. Thanks to extraordinary charitable support, doctors have been able to achieve pioneering medical breakthroughs and thousands of children have been given a new lease of life.

Without a doubt, the person with the biggest association with Great Ormond Street Hospital is James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) – or, one could say, 'Peter Pan'. In 1929, Barrie generously gifted his copyright of 'Peter Pan' to GOSH. The hospital continues to benefit from the character's popularity.

The hospital has relied on charitable support since it first opened and receives the majority of its money through the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. The NHS helps with the day-to-day running of the hospital but the fundraising income allows Great Ormond Street Hospital to remain at the forefront of child healthcare. The charity aims to raise over £50 million every year for research, rebuilding, life-saving equipment, and support for families.

[weaversweek]

GOSH! Bonnie Langford and the hit record

Here’s one for @partywithponies and the rest of the fan club: Bonnie Langford's one appearance on Top of the Pops.

On this day in 1988, the BBC's pop music programme played a clip from "The wishing well". What was this song, what's it got to do with a children's hospital, and why the chuff are Bonnie Langford and TV's Doctor Who on it?!

Great Ormond Street Hospital is a children's hospital in London. It's got a great reputation for medical care and research and pioneering surgery on young patients. This appeal was the first concerted effort to raise money for the work they do, and had a particular point - to refurbish the dilapidated buildings. £40 million needed to come from public fundraising.

The "Wishing Well" appeal would run through 1988 and smash through its target. It's rightly seen as a template for other charity appeals to emulate. Big events included a swimathon in February, concerts by Michael Jackson and Cliff Richard, a classic car auction, the Willow film premiere, and £1.5 million as the London marathon's default charity.

To raise awareness, there was a one-hour documentary on BBC1 in the gap between Christmas and New Year. There was also a charity single, three years after Band Aid invented the idea, and eight months after Ferry Aid kept the idea rolling.

To modern ears, "The wishing well" isn't a great song. Frankly, to ears in 1988, "The wishing well” wasn't a great song. It's simple, effective, unashamedly tugs at the heartstrings. It's optimistic, the rising cadences in the chorus point to a brighter future. Chris Copping wrote the tune, it was produced by Ray Santilli and Keff McCulloch.

Main vocals on the song came from Boy George (who seemed to do every charity single of the era, including Ferry Aid), Peter Cox from Go West, Hazel O'Connor, Grace Kennedy, forgotten 80s duo Dollar, and Noddy Holder from Slade. The chorus included one-hit wonders Jimmy Nail and Hollywood Beyond, the metal band Uriah Heep, 1970s popsters Showaddywaddy, Andy Scott of The Sweet, and Hot Chocolate.

And - like on Ferry Aid earlier in the year - the chorus featured anyone who was able to get to the studio. Folk from EastEnders, hitmakers from Spitting Image, The Rent Party, some stars of Grange Hill, Caron Keating made a film for Blue Peter, Shriekback, Roland Rat Superstar, Andy Crane and Simon Potter from CBBC's Broom Cupboard. All of them able to plug the single to their viewers / listeners / fans. And there was Lisa Maxwell, Michael Croft, Dave Joyner, Terry Rice-Milton, Tracey Wilson, Jodie Wilson, Patricia Conti, the Cantabile choir, the Housemaster Boyz, Jenny Day, Kevin O'Dowd, and "many more".

And there were Bonnie Langford and Sylvester McCoy from television's Doctor Who. They'd been invited by Keff McCulloch, as he'd written some of the incidental music for the recent series. Is there more Bonnie Langford in the video than her vocal contribution merits? Yes. Does it help to sell the single to casual buyers? Also yes.

At this distance, we forget that Bonnie Langford was simultaneously a Famous Person With Lots Of Fans, and Insufferably Uncool Because She'd Played An Irritating Girl On Telly Who Screamed And Screamed Till She Was Sick. Bonnie’s time on Doctor Who hadn't fully rehabilitated her, she'd only been in it for five minutes and we were all waiting for the way-cool Ace anyway. GOSH wasn't going to sell its record to those who thought Bonnie was uncool. It was for the mums and grannies, theatreland and luvviedom, and it hit the mark.

And that is why Bonnie Langford was on Top of the Pops. Up next, the new single from Terence “Trent” D’Arby.

[jbaileyfansite]

Jonathan Bailey wishing luck to the TeamGosh runners taking on the TCS London Marathon on Sunday 23, 2023 [x]

[world-of-wales]

CATHERINE'S STYLE FILES - 2018

17 JANUARY 2018 || The Duchess of Cambridge visited Great Ormond Street Hospital to officially open the Mittal Children's Medical Centre in London.

[persolaise]

Personal Post -- Fundraiser For Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital

Please donate to my fundraiser for Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London -- every single donation helps! Thank you.

I am raising money for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in London, partly to say thank you for looking after a very close relative of mine, and partly to help the amazing team there do all the things they do, every single day, to improve the lives of thousands of children. My aim (after I’ve prayed for my knees to stay strong and not let me down) is to raise at least £5,000 by running 60…

[thepastisalreadywritten]

J.M. Barrie (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937), the creator of Peter Pan, displayed his generosity by donating the rights to the play to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London during his lifetime in 1929.

This remarkable gesture ensured that the hospital would receive a perpetual royalty from any production of Peter Pan, providing a consistent source of funding.

As a result, the hospital has benefited from royalties generated by various adaptations, such as stage productions, films, and merchandise.

These funds have been utilized for research, infrastructure improvements, and the overall care of the children under their treatment.

Over time, the arrangement's specifics have evolved due to changes in copyright law, but the hospital continues to benefit from the ongoing legacy of Peter Pan.

[adropofhumanity]

The relative few children in Gaza who have been able to get out for treatment have ended up in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Italy, France, Malta and the United States, among other countries. But not the United Kingdom.

British doctors and charities, including Kandiah's, who are part of an initiative called Project Pure Hope, told Middle East Eye that they began efforts in January to bring four siblings and their cousin from Gaza as a "test case" to see what would happen.

Three of the siblings, whose parents were killed, had suffered traumatic amputations and required further medical treatment, which pediatric hospitals across Britain were prepared to provide.

Over £500,000 ($636,000) was raised, enough to cover their treatment, and arrangements were made for the children's aunt and grandmother to accompany them, according to those involved.

The issue was visas.

"We literally were asking to bring a handful of children," said Dr Omar Abdel-Mannan, a British-Egyptian paediatric neurologist and founder of Health Workers for Palestine.

Abdel-Mannan has worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, one of the world's leading facilities treating children, during a time he said upwards of 100 Ukrainian children were being treated.

"The double standards are very clear for anyone to see. I'm sad to see my own NHS, which is helping patients day in and day out, is unable to do this, not because of [a lack of] willpower from medics, but at a political level," he said.

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The 13 Clocks by James Thurber (1950)

The hands of all thirteen clocks stand still in the gloomy castle on a lonely hill where a wicked Duke lives with his niece, the beautiful Princess Saralinda. The Duke fancies he has frozen time, for he is afraid that one day a Prince may come and win away the hand of the Princess—the only warm hand in the castle. To thwart that fate, he sets impossible tasks for Saralinda’s suitors. But when the bold Prince Zorn of Zorna arrives, disguised as a wandering minstrel, and helped by the enigmatic Golux, the cold Duke may at last have met his match.

The Edge Chronicles by John Stewart and Chris Riddell (1998-2019)

Fourteen-year-old Quint Verginix is the only remaining son of famous sky-pirate Wind Jackal. He and his father have journeyed to the city of Sanctaphrax – a great floating rock, bound to the ground below by a chain, its inhabitants living with their heads literally in the clouds.

But the city hides a dangerous secret: deep inside the great rock, something horrible lurks. With his father away, Quint may be the only one who can save Sanctaphrax from the dreaded curse of the gloamglozer . . .

The Wandering Inn by Pirateaba (2018-present)

“No killing Goblins.”

So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours.

It’s a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon. She doesn’t belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of life, and where Humans are one species among many. But she must adapt to her new life. Or die.

In a dangerous world where magic is real and people can level up and gain classes, Erin Solstice must battle somewhat evil Goblins, deadly Rock Crabs, and hungry [Necromancers]. She is no warrior, no mage. Erin Solstice runs an inn.

She’s an [Innkeeper].

The Moorchild by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (1996)

Half moorfolk and half human, and unable to shape-shift or disappear at will, Moql threatens the safety of the Band. So the Folk banish her and send her to live among humans as a changeling. Named Saaski by the couple for whose real baby she was swapped, she grows up taunted and feared by the villagers for being different, and is comfortable only on the moor, playing strange music on her bagpipes.

As Saaski grows up, memories from her forgotten past with the Folks slowly emerge. But so do emotions from her human side, and she begins to realizethe terrible wrong the Folk have done to the humans she calls Da and Mumma. She is determined to restore their child to them, even if it means a dangerous return to the world that has already rejected her once.

Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean (2006)

In August 2004 the Special Trustees of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, who hold the copyright in Peter Pan, launched a worldwide search for a writer to create a sequel to J. M. Barrie's timeless masterpiece. Renowned and multi award-winning English author Geraldine McCaughrean won the honor to write this official sequel, Peter Pan in Scarlet. Illustrated by Scott M. Fischer and set in the 1930s, Peter Pan in Scarlet takes readers flying back to Neverland in an adventure filled with tension, danger, and swashbuckling derring-do

The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V. (2022)

Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. As a result, the avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Struggling with her newfound mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in the time and place where the creator of immortality will be born. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life, or will death really become a thing of the past?

Wishing Chair by Enid Blyton (1937-2000)

Once Mollie and Peter have discovered the Wishing-Chair, their lives are full of adventure. It takes them to all sorts of magical places, from the giant's castle where they rescue Chinky the Pixie, to the amazing party at Magician Greatheart's castle.

Die by Kieron Gillan (2018-2020)

DIE is a pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning unearthly horror they barely survived as teenage role-players.

Poison by Chris Wooding (2003)

Poison has always been a willful, contrary girl, prone to being argumentative and stubborn. So when she discovers that her younger sister has been abducted by the phaeries, she decides to seek out the Phaerie Lord to get her back.

But finding the Phaerie Lord is just the start of it. By leaving home, Poison steps into a murderous world of intrigue and danger, where the Lords of the Realm, a sinister pantheon of demigods, are conspiring to overthrow the Hierophant- the most powerful lord of all. For the Hierophant is writing again, and his pen will decide all their fates... including Poison's.

With only her wits and her friends to aid her, Poison must survive the lethal attentions of the Phaerie Lord, rescue her sister, and thwart a plot that could mean the end of her people. What awaits her is beyond anything she can imagine.

Deeplight by Francis Hardinge (2019)

The gods are dead. Decades ago, they turned on one another and tore each other apart. Nobody knows why. But are they really gone forever?

When 15-year-old Hark finds the still-beating heart of a terrifying deity, he risks everything to keep it out of the hands of smugglers, military scientists, and a secret fanatical cult so that he can use it to save the life of his best friend, Jelt. But with the heart, Jelt gradually and eerily transforms. How long should Hark stay loyal to his friend when he’s becoming a monster—and what is Hark willing to sacrifice to save him?