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St Christopher’s is a charity with more than 150 years’ experience looking after children and young people. We need your donations in order to provide our life-changing services and create brighter futures for children and young people in care, leaving care and on the edge of care.

We use donations to make St Christopher’s homes special places where young people can create memories that will stay with them for a lifetime. We know it will be different than living with a family, but we can still make it memorable with your support. So, as well as teaching the obvious, like cooking and budgeting, we also spend time on creative activities thanks to the funds we raise.

Read more about our work by reading our latest impact report here

Help create brighter futures by donating below.

 

How your gifts make a difference

Click through the pictures below to learn how your donations can support our work with children and young people.

Relationships

Love, friendships and relationships are vital to us all. Young people want to keep in touch with the people who matter the most to them but this can be difficult for young people who have had to move many times in their young lives. With often sudden challenges of independence and adulthood this can get lost along the way.

We ensure that young people are supported to maintain the most important relationships to them at the time and pace that works for them – they are in the driving seat with our support.

Financial Stability

Finding and maintaining a job on top of all the responsibility of adulthood can be overwhelming, especially if it is a young person's first experience of working life. Because of their previous life experiences, many of the young people we work with do not feel confident in their skills, talents, potential. We spend time helping them discover their strengths and inner diamond.

We give young people the skills they need to succeed in the workplace, support them to explore job opportunities, and help them find the right career.

Resilience

Life can throw a range of challenges at young people, particularly those who have experience of care, which require resilience to overcome. These are skills that young people need to develop as they grow.

We empower young people in care so they are actively involved in decision making and can take charge of their future at St Christopher’s and when they move on from us.

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Support Into Employment

Support Into Employment helps care leavers navigate the complicated word of job hunting and benefits, whilst building their confidence. Learn More

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Skills for Life

We provide support & coaching for young people in learning practical skills that will help them on their path to independence. Learn More

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Participation & co-production

Children and young people are central to everything we do. We provide them with opportunities to be involved in decision making, from helping to shape new services and their own homes, to interviewing new members of staff.  Learn More

Other ways to donate

You can send a cheque made out to St Christopher’s Fellowship to:

Fundraising Department
St Christopher’s Fellowship
1 Putney High Street
SW15 1SZ

They help me set my own targets but then they keep helping me with the bits I need to do to achieve them. It feels like a real achievement, like climbing a mountain, because they help you realise everything you do to get there.
Lily, young person

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Without St Christopher’s I would not have been able to set up my new business

Koadie works with our Aftercare service on the Isle of Man that provides support to care leavers, including help to find employment or accommodation. She always wanted to set up her own nail business but ...