Emma Billingham

The End of my Journey

We finally completed our 8k swim and we completed it today with our children. I would like to thank everyone who donated, combined we raised £200 between us. I wish it could have been more, (there's still time) but I am thankful that we were able to help this amazing charity provide some support for the children and their families. I have achieved a personal goal too, reaching 2k/80 lengths!!! in a  single swim session, it nearly killed me but I did it. As most of you know, I am not a well person and this has been hard to do. I am so happy that I completed this challenge. 

The start of my journey.

This October I will taking part in an 8k sponsored swim. I would like to raise money with your help, help Great Ormond Street Hospital go above and beyond for seriously ill children, enabling kinder and better treatments, bringing hope for children with the rarest and most complex illnesses, and making hospital a little bit easier and a lot more fun for the thousands of children who are treated here every year. Every day around 750 seriously ill children and young people are seen at Great Ormond Street Hospital. This hospital depends on charitable support. Your donation can provide life saving medical equipment, research into children's health, support for children and families, rebuilding and refurbishment. Even just a sofa bed for parents so they can stay with their children throughout treatment and keeping families together during scary times. 

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

I’m challenging myself to swim 8km this October 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.