Aspen Pledges £100,000 to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity in London

Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited (“Aspen”) is pleased to announce a donation of £100,000 to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity) to support the development of a new, state of the art Critical Care Unit (CCU) within the hospital’s Children’s Cancer Centre for which construction works commenced in 2024.

The contribution will be gifted over a four-year period through the Tick Tock Club at GOSH Charity, which is a community of benefactors who are passionate about children’s healthcare and aim to make a real and lasting difference for critically ill children from across the U.K. and beyond.

Sarah Stanford, Chief Executive Officer, Aspen U.K.  has been appointed to the Tick Tock Club Board. Commenting on Aspen’s partnership and this voluntary board, she said: “The world-class Critical Care team at GOSH does incredible work, and their facilities are vital in helping families face the unimaginable. We are proud that Aspen is able to support GOSH and their work to transform the lives of children with life-threatening illnesses, and I am honoured to have joined the Tick Tock Club Board.”

Established in 2006, the Tick Tock Club at GOSH Charity has raised more than £43 million to help create three world-class clinical centres and one new state-of-the-art intraoperative MRI suite at the hospital. The Tick Tock Board is a group of volunteers who give up their time to help shape the direction of the club and play an active role in supporting the delivery of their £20m Tick Tock Campaign to build a brand new Critical Care Unit.

Funding the new CCU within the Children’s Cancer Centre will provide additional space for the 1,300 children treated in the CCU at GOSH every year and will ensure the hospital’s staff can continue to deliver the best possible care to children from across the U.K. and beyond who are dealing with the most serious and life-threatening illnesses. While four floors of the Children’s Cancer Centre will be dedicated to cancer services, the CCU will deliver care and treatment across many clinical specialties at GOSH.