GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL CHILDREN'S CHARITY — grant history

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Latest income

£140.4m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£317.0m

Accounts grants total

£336.5m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Education/training (3 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
Amateur Sport (1 grantee)
Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Northern Ireland (3 grantees)
Scotland (3 grantees)
Ireland (1 grantee)
Kenya (1 grantee)
Nigeria (1 grantee)
Occupied Palestinian Territories (1 grantee)
Rwanda (1 grantee)
Sierra Leone (1 grantee)
Throughout England (1 grantee)
Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Dr Karin Straathof	—	£6.2m
new	Professor Waseem Qasim	—	£6.2m
new	Professor Claire Booth	—	£6.2m
new	Various researchers	—	£440k
new	Professor Jane Sowden	—	£250k
new	Professor Anindita Roy	—	£125k
new	University of Oxford	—	£125k
new	DAME KELLY HOLMES TRUST	—	£80k
up	Great Ormond Street Hospital	£31.9m	£295.5m
not listed	University of Southampton	£5.3m	—
not listed	University of Edinburgh	£3.7m	—
not listed	Keele University	£1.1m	—
not listed	The Hospital for Sick Children	£582k	—
not listed	University of Manchester	£445k	—
not listed	Oxford University	£250k	—
not listed	University of Liverpool	£250k	—
not listed	Imperial College London	£190k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Great Ormond Street Hospital	FY2025	£295.5m	Children's Cancer Centre
Dr Karin Straathof	FY2025	£6.2m	Programme Grant for improving CAR-T therapies for solid tumours
Professor Waseem Qasim	FY2025	£6.2m	Programme Grant for improving gene editing techniques
Professor Claire Booth	FY2025	£6.2m	Programme Grant for accessible gene therapies
Dr Karin Straathof	FY2025	£1.3m	Programme Grant for CAR T-cell therapy for diffuse midline glioma
Various researchers	FY2025	£440k	Lift Off Grants - Discovery phase (6 projects)
Various researchers	FY2025	£435k	Lift Off Grants - Patient focussed phase (6 projects)
Professor Jane Sowden	FY2025	£250k	National Call for gene therapy for Norrie disease (in partnership with the Norrie Disease Foundation)
Professor Anindita Roy	FY2025	£125k	CRUK Data for Children’s and Young People’s Cancer Pilot Award for infant acute lymphoblastic leukaemia database
University of Oxford	FY2025	£125k	CRUK Data for Children’s and Young People’s Cancer Pilot Award (shared with Prof. Roy for recurrent cancer project)
Dame Kelly Holmes Trust	FY2025	£80k	Wellbeing Pilot Programme
Dr Melissa Hill	FY2025	£75k	Lift Off Grant for research into genetic information and gene therapies
Great Ormond Street Hospital	FY2025	£59k	Public Space Play workers pilot project
Great Ormond Street Hospital	FY2024	£31.9m	Redevelopment and environment
University of Southampton	FY2024	£5.3m	Research
University of Edinburgh	FY2024	£3.7m	Research
University of Edinburgh	FY2024	£1.9m	Research
Keele University	FY2024	£1.1m	Research
The Hospital for Sick Children	FY2024	£582k	Research
University of Manchester	FY2024	£445k	Research
Oxford University	FY2024	£250k	Research
University of Liverpool	FY2024	£250k	Research
University of Manchester	FY2024	£230k	Research
University of Southampton	FY2024	£191k	Research
Imperial College London	FY2024	£190k	Research
Cancer Research UK	FY2024	£127k	Research
King’s College London	FY2024	£124k	Research
Institute of Child Health	FY2024	£69k	Research
Oxford University	FY2024	£63k	Research
Queen Mary University of London	FY2024	£27k	Research
University College London	FY2024	£19k	Research
University of Liverpool	FY2024	£13k	Research
Imperial College London	FY2024	£12k	Research
Cancer Research UK	FY2024	£11k	Research
Newcastle University	FY2024	£10k	Research
King’s College London	FY2024	£10k	Research
Queen Mary University of London	FY2024	£10k	Research
University of Nottingham	FY2024	£10k	Research
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	FY2024	£10k	Research
Newcastle University	FY2024	£2k	Research
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	FY2024	£2k	Research
University of Nottingham	FY2024	£2k	Research
Great Ormond Street Hospital	FY2023	£20.9m	Redevelopment and Environment / Technology and Innovation / Patients, Family and Staff Support and other
Institute of Child Health	FY2023	£1.9m	Redevelopment and Environment / Technology and Innovation / Patients, Family and Staff Support and other
Cancer research UK	FY2023	£1.3m	Research
University College London	FY2023	£1.1m	Research
King’s College London	FY2023	£499k	Research
Queen Mary University of London	FY2023	£250k	Research
University of Nottingham	FY2023	£242k	Research
Newcastle University	FY2023	£230k	Research
University of Manchester	FY2023	£191k	Research
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust	FY2023	£113k	Research
The Hospital for Sick Children	FY2023	£63k	Research
Great Ormond Street Hospital	FY2022	£18.0m	Welfare and clinical development / General support
Institute of Child Health University College London	FY2022	£3.0m	Research
Queen Mary University of London	FY2022	£1.2m	Research
University of Cambridge	FY2022	£472k	Research
The Hospital for Sick Children	FY2022	£249k	Research
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health	FY2022	£63k	Research
Birmingham Children's Hospital	FY2022	£38k	Research
Imperial College London	FY2022	£2k	Research
Oxford University	FY2022	£2k	Research
UCL Institute of Women’s Health	FY2022	£2k	Research
University of Manchester	FY2022	£2k	Research
University of Southampton	FY2022	£2k	Research
University of Warwick	FY2022	£2k	Research

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 316989000 vs reference 336500000 (5.8% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.