Your donation can change lives in the UK

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.

The Observer has reported heartbreaking accounts of children so hungry they are eating rubbers, or pretending to eat out of an empty lunchbox because they didn't want friends knowing there was no food at home.

And empty stomachs make it harder for children to concentrate at school - putting their futures at risk.

Your donations can make a difference - please start giving monthly today.

In homes, classrooms, and neighbourhoods across the UK, we work alongside children in poverty to give them a chance of the future they deserve. 

Thanks to amazing people like you, we handed out over 2,300 direct grants to low-income families in 2022 (which typically amount to £400) - meaning parents could buy food, warm clothes and beds for their children.

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When children live in poverty, we all feel it.  

An average of 10 children in every school were pulled into poverty during the pandemic. And now, families who never thought they’d struggle are being rocked by the cost-of-living crisis.

The impacts could last a lifetime. It doesn’t matter how loving families are, poverty - and the lost time, isolation, and stress it brings – is holding children back now and long into the future. 

But we can change this story. Children’s potential is limitless. And when kids are given fair opportunities, they reach that potential and achieve their life goals faster. That’s not just good for them, but all of us; more nurses, teachers, inspiring leaders. More whatever they want to be. 

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