# GOSH Charity launches VR hospital tour to show impact of funding

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/02/15/gosh-charity-launches-vr-hospital-tour-to-show-impact-of-funding/
- Published: 2019-02-15T09:15:09+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity) has launched a 
VR tool to highlight the impact of GOSH Charity funding on the hospital. **

The charity’s Digital Engagement team worked with virtual reality and creative production
agency [REWIND](http://rewind.co/) to create a VR tour that provides people with
the opportunity to explore the hospital’s facilities and wards alongside vital services
such as the chapel, play and sensory rooms which have all received funding from 
the charity.

The VR experience launched on 14 February – [GOSH’s](http://www.gosh.org) 167th 
birthday – and it is available on [YouTube](https://youtu.be/O-2iQ1-Ukjw), allowing
viewers to access the experience on a variety of digital devices, including desktops,
tablets and mobile phones.  

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Starting at the hospital’s reception area and narrated by Mat Shaw, Chief Executive
of GOSH, the guided tour weaves through a number of vital areas, each narrated by
a different member of staff.

Viewers experience a patient learning from their play specialist about medical procedures
using a cuddly toy, and see a sensory room and an MRI scanner capturing images that
will help to diagnose conditions and plan surgery. The tour continues inside a research
lab and through to the hospital chapel where they hear about GOSH’s multi faith 
spiritual care team and how they support patients and families. Next they visit 
a surgical theatre just as an operation is taking place before finishing with a 
visit to Eagle and Bear ward to meet patients and hear about those who are treated
for both renal and cardiac conditions.

 

**Editor’s note:** _the video previously embedded here (https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=O-2iQ1-Ukjw) is no longer available._

 

Mark Mackenzie-Ray, Digital Content Manager at GOSH Charity said:

> “Various teams at the charity identified VR as a useful tool that would help us
> to engage with existing supporters, as well as reaching out to potential fundraisers.
>    “The VR experience will provide individuals and organisations from across the
> UK with the unique opportunity to explore the hospital as an immersive experience
> without having to physically be there and see how their support could help GOSH
> Charity give children who are treated at GOSH the best chance for life.” 

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