RBC Race for the Kids

1. Sign up today

Set among the autumn leaves of Hyde Park, our family festival is the perfect day out for all ages and abilities.

2. Share your fundraising page

Raise money to help build a better future for children with cancer by telling your friends and family about your challenge and asking them to sponsor you. Your own personal fundraising page will be automatically set up when you register.

3. Run 2k or 5k

Walk, jog, wheel or scoot 2k or 5k and join the race to help beat childhood cancer. You will receive a race pack (including your race day t-shirt) before the event, and on completion you will receive a medal and a virtual goody bag.

How your fundraising will help beat childhood cancer

Cancer is the biggest killer of children aged one to 14 in the UK. But a child doesn’t have to die from cancer for it to take their life. Living with cancer is different for every child. It can mean countless rounds of debilitating treatment. Seeing your siblings through the windows of an isolation room. Not knowing when you’ll sleep in your own bed again. 

It can mean missing out on parties and playdates and trips to the park. It can mean missing the moments that make up a childhood. 

But we won’t let it. 

We won’t let cancer steal childhoods. 

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

But the rapidly changing pace of cancer medicine has outstripped GOSH’s existing cancer facilities., and the hospital needs a new home to help deliver breakthrough therapies. Somewhere that will treat the child, not just their disease. 

That home will be the new Children’s Cancer Centre at GOSH. A world-class facility with children at its heart. 

A place where children have access to play and education alongside pioneering treatments. Where families can stay together through some of the hardest moments. Where access to outdoor space is a priority, and a focus on nutrition helps fuel recovery. 

GOSH has a team of dedicated doctors, nurses and researchers who are specialists in the most complex childhood cancers. And there are architects and builders who can transform the hospital. Now we just need people like you. 

Join us to help build the Children’s Cancer Centre at GOSH and save more lives. 

Together, we can build it. Together, we can help beat childhood cancer.