Claire Philbrooks

Swimming 8km for Hope — Supporting Great Ormond Street

This March I’m swimming 8km to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital.

My daughter Elicia lives with Jacobsen Syndrome, a rare condition that brings ongoing medical care and challenges. Elicia was treated for birth complications at St George’s and Chelsea and Westminster, which makes me feel akin to any parent who has had to endure hospital stays with their child.

Although Elicia wasn’t treated at Great Ormond Street, I feel strongly about helping to raise money for hospitals like these that keep families with complex medical needs hopeful and reassured.

Every length I swim is for Elicia and in honour of the families who face long hospital journeys for their children.

If you can donate, share, or cheer me on, it would mean so much.

Thank you ❤️

I’m swimming 8km in March for GOSH Charity!

I’m challenging myself to swim 8km this March to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity).

Childhood is special. It should be a time of joy, wonder, curiosity and fun. Of making friends, making mistakes, and growing into the adults we become. But it’s also fragile, and sometimes all too brief.

That’s why Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity raises funds to help give seriously ill children childhoods that are fuller, funner and longer. 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 no childhood should be lost to serious illness.

And with every kilometre I swim, and every pound raised, we’ll be helping to give seriously ill children the best chance and the best childhood possible.

Please help me to achieve my goal by giving whatever you can; no amount is too small to make a difference.

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