Volunteers may now register to take part in the 31st Grand Finale! During the January fundraiser, we will collect money to buy equipment for a quick identification of bacteria, which may cause sepsis.
The registration process for volunteers is a next milestone in the preparations for the Summer Blaze in January. The registration process for the Collection Centres was launched in October. The list of registered Collection Centres from Poland and abroad is growing fast. So far, we can proudly say that hubs from Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Cyprus, Norway, Croatia, Australia, the USA, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Canada, Singapore, Japan, France, and Italy joined our forces!
Would you like to volunteer to play with the GOCC Foundation? Easy-peasy! There are two ways to apply:
1. Register online via the iwolontariusz.org.pl platform.
2. Find your nearest Collection Centre and set up a meeting on-site.
Our traditional one-day fundraiser will be held on 29 January 2023, but you may support our initiative already in December via different online channels and fundraising events organized by Collection Centres.
An unforgettable adventure, sense of community, and a solid voluntary work – if you wish to implement these elements in your life, also after the GOCC Grand Finale is over – join our Peace Patrol!
Peace Patrol is amazing people, who make for an all-year-round volunteer group of the GOCC Foundation. They are the fore behind all the major events – the winter Grand Finale and the summer Pol'and'Rock Festival, as well as many other projects in between.
With the funds to be collected during the 31st Grand Finale, the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation plans to purchase:
The 30th Grand Finale was held on 30 January 2022. The main objective of the fundraiser was to collect money in aid of children's ophthalmology, to buy some of the most sophisticated devices to save and diagnose children's sight, focusing our efforts on bringing state-of-the-art machines to public hospitals and clinics in Poland. 1633 Collection Centres were engaged, including 90 international hubs in 29 different countries. They organised the work of almost 120,000 volunteers. On the day of the annual fundraiser, Dżem, happysad, IRA, Kwiat Jabłoni, De Mono, LemON, Sorry Boys, and Piotr Bukartyk played on our music stage. During the 30th Grand Finale we raised PLN 224,376,706.35!
In 30 years, the GOCC Foundation has raised the total of PLN 1.75 bln and purchased nearly 70,000 devices.
Five days before the 32nd Grand Finale of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, we visited the 'Pomnik - Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka' (Children's Memorial Health Institute) to ceremoniously inaugurate the first Ophthalmic Simulation Laboratory in Europe dedicated exclusively to the field of peadiatric ophthalmology.
For the eighteenth time, Jurek Owsiak, this time from the final stage on the PGE Narodowy meadows in Warsaw, opened the joyful run under the same slogan "Get Even with Diabetes". Crowds of running enthusiasts, after a five-kilometre route through the streets of Warsaw, will reach the finish line located in the same place.
Hundreds of participants wearing our original orange T-shirts? It's a signature feature of our "Get Even with Diabetes" Run! We will hold the 18th stationary edition of the run in the streets of Warsaw on 28 January. However, the virtual run starts today! You can still register online and add your time to the pool!
