Be a GOSH Ambassador
Why people choose to be an Ambassador:
They love talking and connecting with people
They are passionate about the cause they represent
They are more interested in doing something of value than developing a career
They like the flexibilty of being self-employed and choosing their schedule to work around their lives
They are good at fundraising and are very well rewarded
What does being a self-employed Ambassador look like?
You tell us your availability for the next 6 weeks and we will strive to fill those days up with bookings at sites.
You will generally be booked into sites within 20-45 minutes from where you live.
You turn up on site, we suggest, ready to start at 10am, set up your stand and start chatting to the public.
You generally finish around 4pm but can work longer if you wish.
You are paid a fee for each person to secure as a donor of the charity.
On average our self-employed Ambassadors are paid £3-400 per shift.
People generally work 2-3 days a week.
You invoice us, we can help you with this and are paid every 2 weeks.
WHO IS GOSH?
Great Ormond Street Hospital, often known simply as GOSH, is one of the world's best-known children's hospitals, based in the Bloomsbury area of London.
Origins
GOSH was founded in 1852 by Dr Charles West, a physician who was frustrated that children in Victorian London had almost nowhere dedicated to treat their illnesses. At the time, general hospitals often refused to admit young children at all, partly out of fear that childhood diseases were too infectious and partly because paediatric medicine barely existed as a distinct specialty. West rented a small house at 49 Great Ormond Street with just ten beds and opened it as the Hospital for Sick Children — the first hospital in the English-speaking world dedicated purely to children.
The hospital grew quickly thanks to public support, most famously from the author Charles Dickens, who was a passionate advocate and used his writing and public readings to raise funds for it. Another well-known supporter came later: J.M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan, gifted the rights to his famous character to the hospital in 1929. That gift still generates royalty income for GOSH today, and Parliament has granted the hospital a perpetual right to royalties from Peter Pan performances and publications in the UK.
What it does today
GOSH is now a specialist paediatric hospital and research centre, part of the UK's National Health Service (NHS). It treats children and young people with some of the rarest, most complex conditions, often cases that have been referred from other hospitals when local treatment options have been exhausted. Its specialisms include:
Complex heart conditions and cardiac surgery
Cancer, including rare paediatric cancers
Neurology and neurosurgery
Rare and genetic diseases
Organ transplantation
It works closely with the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, combining clinical care with cutting-edge research — GOSH has been involved in pioneering treatments including early gene therapy trials for immune disorders and other genetic conditions.
As a charity-supported NHS hospital, GOSH also relies heavily on the GOSH Charity to fund research, equipment, and improvements to its facilities beyond what NHS funding alone covers.
