Announcing our 2025 Charity of the Year – Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity

We’re proud to announce that this year Funding Circle’s employees will be fundraising for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, the UK’s largest dedicated charitable funder of child health. 

Every year, Funding Circle employees vote on who should be our Charity of the Year. All of the proceeds from our internal fundraising efforts go towards this chosen charity.

Through our employee-led Impact group, we give back to communities in need and raise awareness for worthy causes through charity and volunteering projects.

In 2024, we raised over £12,800 for Refuge, helping support thousands of women and their children to overcome the physical, emotional, financial and logistical impacts of abuse and rebuild their lives.

This year Circlers has chosen to support GOSH Charity, who fund groundbreaking research, cutting-edge medical equipment, and the building and refurbishment of child-centred facilities for seriously ill children.

“Helping communities is something that is a priority at Funding Circle, from the small businesses we serve, to the volunteering and fundraising efforts of our Circlers,” said Jenisha Limbani, Funding Circle’s Charity Group Lead.

“As part of our Impact work, we raise money for a different charity every year. So far we’ve raised over £80,000 for charities, including The Trussell Trust and Whizz Kidz.

“This is through events like the GOSH Walkie Talkie climb, football tournaments, Movember, running the London Marathon and our IT equipment charitable donations. We hope to raise even more this year!”

What do Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity do?

GOSH Charity’s mission is to give seriously ill children childhoods that are fuller, longer, and more fun. 

Together with Great Ormond Street Hospital, they go above and beyond for seriously ill children. GOSH Charity fund life-saving research into children’s health, enable kinder and better treatments and make a hospital stay a little bit easier for the thousands of children who are treated at Great Ormond Street every year.

Money raised by Funding Circle employees will help seriously ill children, as well as spreading awareness of GOSH Charity’s important work.  

How we’re supporting Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity

We always have a full programme of internal events, including fundraising and volunteering opportunities that let everyone get involved.

This year we are bringing back some employee favourites, including our charity football tournaments, FC sports day and a charity golf day.

By popular request, we’ll be hosting a Bake Off event, as well as pool and table tennis competitions. 

After a hugely enjoyable GOSH Walkie Talkie Tower Climb last year, we’re also hoping to send a team to once again take on the challenge of climbing the 896 steps of London’s Fenchurch Building.

Giving back 

At Funding Circle we believe that small businesses are at the centre of our communities and, as such, contributing to the community is a crucial part of our values.

We actively encourage all of our employees to get involved in volunteering projects by offering up to two days paid leave a year to make an impact on something that matters to them.

As well as fundraising for GOSH Charity this year, Circlers will be getting involved in numerous other projects, including: 

• Monthly volunteering with Nishkam SWAT’s Homeless Project
• Rebuilding Horsenden Hill and Stave Hill nature reserves in two joint volunteering days with our partners, Sage
• Thames River Clean
• A book drive and volunteering with the Children’s Book Project
• Movember Football Tournament

We look forward to seeing how much we raise this year for GOSH Charity, and having some fun along the way. You can donate to GOSH Charity here.