Charities - children and youth

Barnardo's helps the UK's most vulnerable children and young people have a better start in life and so gives them the chance of a better future. As one of the UK's leading children's charities, we work directly with over 190,000 children, young people and their families every year. We run more than 800 vital projects across the UK. We help those without families find loving homes through fostering and adoption. We support children who have been victims of abuse and ensure young unemployed people receive training. We help families who are homeless and in poverty. We provide centres for children with disabilities and we support young carers.

Camp Simcha was founded in the UK and became a Registered Charity in February 1995. The charity aims to improve the quality of life for children and teenagers from the Jewish Community throughout the UK with cancer and other life threatening illnesses, as well as their families. Camp Simcha provides emotional and practical support for parents and powerful positive experiences for the children.

‘Creating opportunities and raising aspirations for disadvantaged children.’
Changing Children’s Futures is a network of 5 Hertfordshire schools serving communities with high levels of social and economic deprivation. Our aim is to ensure that all the children in our schools have a fair chance to succeed, develop aspirations for their future and therefore be able to create better lives for themselves.

One child in 600 develops cancer – around 1,700 new cases a year in the UK and
Ireland. The types of cancer found are quite different from those in adults and
treatment must take account of the child’s future growth and development.

Hearing a child has cancer is the start of a difficult journey that tests families physically, emotionally and financially. As the UK’s leading children’s charity, CLIC Sargent is there caring every step of the way, answering the needs of children, young people and their families in hospital, at home and in the community. We are there – often within hours of diagnosis - offering emotional and practical help to families who feel their world has fallen apart. CLIC Sargent Doctors, Nurses and Play Specialists offer the specialist care and support they need.

Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, known collectively as inflammatory bowel disease, are chronic debilitating illnesses involving severe inflammation of the digestive tract. The incidence of Crohn’s Disease in children has increased dramatically over the past few years but to date there is no known cause or cure.

One person in ten is dyslexic. That’s two to three children in every class and 10% of the workforce.

Dyslexia Action is a national charity and the UK’s leading provider of services and support for people with dyslexia and literacy difficulties. We specialise in assessment, teaching and training. Our services are available through our 26 centres and 160 teaching locations around the UK. Over 30,000 people benefit directly from our services every year, however there are many, many more people we simply can not reach. We are hugely reliant on voluntary funds as a means to enable us to help more people with dyslexia across the UK.

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) supports families and cares for children and
young people with life-threatening conditions across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk
and Suffolk. We provide care and support wherever the family wishes – in families’ own
homes, in the community or at one of our hospices in Ipswich, Milton and Quidenham.
Our care teams help children and their families with the emotional and physical
challenges they face, helping them to make the most of life. We deliver a range of
services that includes: short break care, specialist play activities, music therapy,

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children is one of the leading children’s hospitals in the world caring for sick children from all over the country – in particular those with the most rare or severe conditions. The hospital has the largest range of paediatric specialities under one roof in the UK and is the largest centre for children with cancer and leukaemia in Europe and the largest centre for children’s heart transplants in the world. The majority of our patients need to see at least two specialists and thousands every year need to see five teams or more.

Hope and Homes for Children is an international charity working to ensure that all children grow up in the love of a family. We are leading experts in closing orphanages and ensuring families are at the centre of children’s welfare.

Jewish Child’s Day helps Jewish children in need of special care in the United Kingdom, Europe, Israel and throughout the world. This includes children who are neglected or abused, blind or deaf or mentally or physically disabled.

Type 1 diabetes means that the body cannot regulate blood glucose levels on its own. Glucose is a type of sugar, which is a source of energy.

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic condition that stays with people their entire lives.

• It has a life long impact on those diagnosed with it and their families.
• People with type 1 diabetes rely on multiple insulin injections or pump infusions every day just to stay alive.
• Type 1 diabetes is most commonly diagnosed in childhood, but it can happen at any age.

The Lord’s Taverners is one of the UK’s leading youth sports charities and recreational cricket’s official charity.

Meningitis is a terrifying disease, which can kill in four hours. Every week, six families have to face the sudden tragedy of losing a loved one to this devastating disease. Babies, children, students and older people are most at risk.

Throughout history epilepsy has been stigmatised, overlooked and misunderstood. The National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy (NCYPE) is a national charity providing specialist services for children and young people with epilepsy, striving to make a positive impact on the lives of children and young people who are most affected by epilepsy, and other neurological conditions.

They only get one chance at childhood

The NSPCC’s purpose is to end cruelty to children. Our vision is a society in which all children are loved valued and able to fulfil their potential.

Norwood supports people with learning disabilities and children and families in need. We work with individuals to improve the quality of their lives and achieve their goals. Our services are provided to the Jewish community and also to people in the wider community.

Ordinary people. Extraordinary lives.

Carers are ordinary people doing something extraordinary. Each day they put aside their own lives to help someone unable to manage on their own, whether it’s their parent, partner, child, grandparent or even a close friend. It can be an incredibly isolating experience. And it means they often don’t have the chance of a ‘normal’ life. Doing things the rest of us take for granted, like enjoying time to ourselves or a trip to the cinema, are simply not possible.

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) supports families with seriously ill children by providing free “home away from home” accommodation at hospitals and hospices across the UK. We are driven by the passionate belief that every child in hospital deserves to have their family close by to provide much needed comfort and hope.

Research – Prevention – Support – Campaigning
Every 15 minutes somebody dies from lung cancer in the UK. We want to ensure that today’s children and young people do not become tomorrow’s lung cancer statistics.

We are the UK’s only lung cancer charity.

SOS Children is a global charity dedicated to giving a loving home to every child. Established in 1949, we now care for orphaned and abandoned children in 124 countries. Every child should belong to a family and grow up with the love, respect and security they need.

St John’s school for the deaf is a day and boarding school for hearing impaired pupils aged 5 to 19.
Pupils are taught by specialist teachers of the deaf and emphasis is placed on helping them to develop, understand and use spoken language. This approach is underpinned by a commitment to the use of technology to provide children with maximum access to speech.

Sunfield provides 52 week education and residential care for children between 6 and 19 years of age, from all over the U.K. who have severe and complex learning needs.

As children, most of us take for granted the chance to get out and about, exploring, climbing trees, visiting the park and hanging out with friends. For our children, and grandchildren, we expect nothing less, but for many with a special need, it just isn’t possible.

The National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) provides support and services that transform the lives of deaf children and their families.

Formed in 1911, UK Youth is a leading national youth work charity supporting 750,000 young people each year. Our programmes help young people develop the resilience, skills and competences necessary to make successful transitions to adulthood and receive recognition for their achievements.