SPONSORED SWIM FOR GOSH

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 is 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 via my Just Giving Page - any amount would be truly amazing.

For those that sponsor me £40 or over I will send an art print in A4 of the below 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 !

ABOUT GOSH

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 doesn’t 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 Children’s Cancer Centre at GOSH and save more children’s lives.

Swimmer at London Fields Lido, Frances Costelloe, 2022