Trusts

Trusts make a vital difference to our work - they provide essential support towards our education, training, employment, health and welfare work.

Without this invaluable assistance we would be unable to provide these key services to the children, young people and vulnerable adults we help.

We are very grateful to all our trust funders. Our challenge now is to continue raising even more to fund our rapidly growing services for people in need of support.

If you are a trustee or work for a grant making trust, or if you know somebody who may be able to assist us in this area, and would like to discuss how your help could make a real difference to our work, please contact David Tatham by email:
fundraising@stchris.org.uk or call us on 0208 780 7800.

We are grateful to everyone who has made a gift during the year, including large donations received from the following trusts, companies and individuals:

Allan Charitable Trust
Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust
P Ball
BBC Children in Need
The Bellinger Donnay Charitable Trust
City Parochial Foundation
Comic Relief
Mary Cox
ECI Partners
R Evans
Help a London Child
Henry Smith Charity
HSBC Trust Company (UK) Limited
Indigo Trust
Mary Sinclair Watson Charitable Trust
Iris M McGrath
The Rank Foundation
The Scouloudi Foundation
The Tanner Trust
The Woolton Charitable Trust

This support has been vital in ensuring real progress in the following areas:

Education, training and employment

St Christopher's has employed educational support workers to ensure that the children in our care have school places that they regularly attend, and are able to access alternative educational opportunities. We have also developed 'life skills' workshops in our Limegrove Resource Centre, to support homeless men and women whose lifestyles were too chaotic to maintain unsupported attendance on longer-term courses.

Health education for young people

Health education is important to help the young people in our care address the real health inequalities they face. The health support project has proved to be a popular and effective way of giving young people the vital information they need to make healthy lifestyle choices.

Family support service

We have developed this project to reduce repeated incidences of children running away from home and to support families whose children are returning from care or are facing a period in care. The project assists families in the crucial few months after a child returns home, and helps to strengthen communication and relationships within families.

Go Fund

The Go Fund helps our service users with expenses such as course fees, suitable clothing and travel expenses for job interviews.