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  • 179329
    Disadvantaged children engaged
  • £ 6.83 M
    Raised to fund projects
  • 178
    Participating charities
Data from July 2021 to June 2022

Our Vision

We believe that every child should have a healthy, happy and safe childhood so that all children are well prepared for life, breaking the cycle of poverty.

 

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The cost-of-living crisis is having a devastating impact on children living in poverty.

We are facing a growing emergency. 800,000 children are living in poverty in London. Our most recent research found that the equivalent of 40% of London children are regularly missing meals and going hungry due to the cost of living crisis.

Our most vulnerable children are facing the very real prospect of spending the summer holidays anxious, bored, lonely and hungry.

Please donate now to provide a London child experiencing poverty with much needed practical and emotional support, fun and friendship this summer and beyond, through what are set to be extremely difficult months.

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Our Christmas Appeals raised over £5.2M

We are overwhelmed with gratitude after a record breaking Christmas of fundraising!

The funds donated will provide practical and emotional support for more than 150,000 disadvantaged children in London. Many of the projects we fund offer a warm and safe environment where children can eat nutritious food, enjoy fun inspiring activities and receive wellbeing support.

With the cost of living crisis forcing many more families into poverty, our support is desperately needed. Rising living costs are causing poverty to become further entrenched with many families struggling with the impossible dilemma of choosing between heating or eating and increasingly being able to afford neither. Our latest research documents the impact of deepening poverty on children's mental and physical wellbeing.

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Young filmmakers highlight food poverty and London's housing crisis

As part of our mission to promote the voices of children and young people, we worked in partnership with the Octavia Foundation and a group of young people to produce two films in the summer of 2021. These films highlight some of the many challenges facing children and young people in London such as inadequate housing and food insecurity. The young people wrote, produced, shot, and edited these films with no prior experience. Both films were premiered at our London Child Poverty Summit in October 2021.

Can't Let Them In

18-year-old Ahmed lives with his parents and younger sister in a cramped one-bedroom flat. When an escalating leak seeps into the lower floor, it draws the attention of their furious neighbours as well as the imposing council. Riddled with shame in his circumstance, Ahmed refuses to answer or let them in... But with his innocent and curious sister in the flat with him, the knocking at the door becomes harder to ignore.

In The Music

14-year-old Desha is a timid young girl, obsessed with escaping reality in the world of her mixtapes - and it is with the help of her mixtapes that after getting herself in detention, she puts into action her plan to dress in a convert disguise and steal a keyboard from her school... But why is this shy young girl having to steal a keyboard?

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Every child should have a healthy, happy and safe childhood so that all children are well prepared for life, breaking the cycle of poverty.

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