Right now, 1 in 4 children in the UK live in poverty.
Families near you are struggling to afford the basics. As their children go back to school after the holidays, many are worried about how they’ll afford the essentials and children are going back feeling hungry, tired and isolated. In an average classroom, 9 children are living in poverty.
That’s where you come in. Your support gives families a real helping hand. Thanks to people like you, children like Emily can start school with a filling breakfast to fuel her day at school so she can concentrate in lessons and have the energy to play with her friends.
Together we can help children and young people feel safer, happier, healthier and more hopeful, by directly supporting them and their families with specialist services across the UK, raising awareness and campaigning to change the way the system works for the better.
We've been changing childhoods and changing lives for over 150 years, and we'll be here for as long as we're needed thanks to people like you.
How your donation helps children
How your money helps
For every pound we spend (excluding retail costs) approximately:
- 94p goes on working with the children and young people who need it most
- Less than 1p goes on investment management costs
- And the remaining amount - just over 5p - on raising the next £1
For more info about how we raise and spend our money, please look at our latest annual report.