How Monthly Donations Help Children In The UK
Sophie hula-s in her garden at home in Cardiff. Her family received our Early Years Grant in the summer of 2023.
In the UK the number of children living in poverty is rising: a staggering 4.5 million, or 9 in every classroom of 30.
Your monthly donation could fund life-changing projects and provide vital items like food, clothes and beds for children in poverty living across the UK.
Your donations mean we could provide:
- Access to food, clothes and home essentials: Provide families with direct grants to reduce immediate financial stress. This means that parents can buy food, warm clothes, and home essentials.
- Children's community programmes: building communities of people who care about children by bringing the right organisations together, to listen to what children need and make sure there are no gaps for children to fall through.
- Baby Banks: We facilitate the establishment and operation of Baby Banks in local communities across the UK. These supply families with crucial items including clothes, toys, cots, prams, nappies, and wipes.
Your monthly donation could provide children and families affected by war, natural disasters and other crisis across the world, with life-saving essentials like food, water and healthcare.
Poverty Steals Childhood
No child should pay the price of the cost of living crisis - but 30% of children in the UK live in poverty.
Years of stagnant wages and cuts to benefits payments have left parents on the lowest incomes, including those who are working, desperately struggling.
Poverty doesn't just affect a child's access to essentials; it impacts their development too:
- 33% of children living in poverty fall behind with their education.
- In England, 23% of children living in poverty miss expected levels of language development by the age of 5.
We’re one of the leading child poverty charities in the UK. By donating to Save The Children, you help us make a difference across the UK for child poverty and support those who need it most.
Our Work in the UK
Grants
We provide direct Family Grants to low-income families, enabling parents to purchase essential items such as food, warm clothing, and beds for their children.
Grants are a lifeline, helping to reduce some of the day-to-day stresses caused by the high cost of living, providing families with the tools to play and learn at home, and ensuring that children get what they need to thrive.
Baby Banks
We facilitate the establishment and operation of Baby Banks in local communities across the UK. These centres supply families with crucial items including clothes, toys, cots, prams, nappies, and wipes.
Along with the Baby Bank Alliance, we support and advocate for more than 400 baby banks nationwide, providing crucial funding, building networks and helping raise awareness of the important work they do.
Community Programmes
We work with communities in the UK to ensure children have the money, services, and power to end child poverty. We strive to build communities of people who care about children, listen to what is important to them, and work together to make things better.
Our Children’s Communities programme gets organisations and agencies working together to make sure there are no gaps for children to fall through. Our Early Learning Communities programme aims to improve early learning outcomes for children growing up in poverty in the UK.
Campaigning
We’re calling for the government to take action to reduce child poverty in the UK and give families the support they need. This includes scrapping the two-child limit and benefit cap, committing to a ‘Child Lock’ that ensures that child-related benefits rise in line with wages or average earnings, and delivering a strong child poverty strategy.
Why Your Donation Matters
For over 100 years Save the Children have fought for a fairer world for children.
Month after month, in the UK and around the world, we make sure children stay safe, healthy and keep learning through the toughest times. Whether they're at risk due to conflict, poverty or the global food crisis we ensure we are there providing vital resources such as food, water, education and mental health support to ease their suffering and help recovery.
We could not do this without our supporters who give a donation every month.
Monthly donations allow us to plan for the long term. To be not just reactive, but proactive in thousands of projects helping children across the world, all designed with one thing in mind: to improve the lives of children.
How Your Donation Can Help
Save the Children’s ambition is a world in which every child has the right to survive, learn and be protected. We were founded on the belief that every child deserves the chance of a future. This belief underpins everything we do.
Together with families, supporters and partners, we work to help every child get the future they deserve - focusing our efforts where the need is greatest.
Your donation could help ensure children:
- Get a healthy start in life: From training midwives through to setting up Emergency Health Units, we work to enable safe birth.
- Learn and go to school safely: Campaigning for marginalized and poverty stricken children, setting up temporary learning spaces and repairing damaged schools in conflicts.
- Protect children from hunger: Our teams provide counselling, breastfeeding support, malnutrition screening, vitamin supplements and cash transfers.
- Grow up in resilient families: Our family tracing team work tirelessly all over the world to reunited children parents and siblings for a lifetime of belonging.
Who are Save the Children UK?
Every child has a unique story. We help children rewrite theirs.
Save the Children fights for children every single day so they can fulfil their unique potential.
Month after month, in the UK and around the world, we make sure children stay safe, healthy and keep learning, so they can become who they want to be.
We could not do this without our supporters who give a donation every month.
Monthly donations allow us to plan for the long term. To be not just reactive, but proactive in thousands of projects across the world, all designed with one thing in mind: to improve the lives of children.
We know what needs to be done. To do it, we need you.
