What do we do?

The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity goes beyond its regular mission of supporting medicine in Poland, organizing the annual public fundraiser (the so-called “Grand Finale”), and holding seven national medical actions and programmes and one educational programme. Our Foundation engages in different humanitarian initiatives in response to natural disasters (e.g. “Stop Floods!”), humanitarian crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border, pandemic (fight against the COVID-19), war (support for Ukraine), or social initiatives (e.g. making a stand against child abuse – “Teddy Bear's Tale”, standing against hate together “No Hate, Just Rock!”).  

Visit https://en.wosp.org.pl/ for all details about GOCC!

Why do we do it in Ireland?

The strong community spirit of Irish people keeps us on our toes! We seem to be so much alike through love towards hard work and helping others, we simply can't resist doing charity.

Many Poles (if not all of them) have some sort of connection with the GOCC. The charity exists since 1993 and many of us grew up in the spirit of building a strong community spirit trough GOCC after turbulent history of our homeland.

The connection grew stronger each year, when more and more medical support has been provided to Polish hospitals, improving the wellbeing of the nation. Our children (quite a few of us now adult parents ourselves), parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and foes (!) received help thanks to the provided equipment purchased entirely from the public's donations.

We have been operating in Ireland since 2006, mobilizing Poles from all environments, teachers, students, businesses, private persons, moms and dads, kids and friends growing stronger year to year.

We are united all over the World!

The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity unites Poles from all over the world, i.e. Europe, South and North Americas, Asia, Australia and Oceania and even Arctic! We're positive we'll reach Africa at some point as well ;-)