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The Children’s Society
Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 April 2012 08:20
Victor Hext is the Honorary Diocesan President for the Children’s Society, which is founded on a Christian vision and driven by Christian values.
Contact:
40 Riverhead
Sprotbrough
Doncaster DN5 7QR
Telephone: 01302 854467
E-mail:
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About the Society
The Church of England Children’s Society is a leading national charity, driven by the belief that all children deserve a good childhood. Guided by the unconditional belief in the worth and importance of all children, the Society offers help and understanding to those forgotten children who face danger, discrimination or disadvantage in their daily lives.
Its network of projects helps over 50,000 children and their families each year. Through its pioneering research and influential campaigning, it defends, safeguards and protects the childhood of all children.
To find out more visit the Society’s website (http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk) or click on any of the highlighted phrases below and follow the instructions:
- The main areas on which the Society focuses:
- The new project in Sheffield for refugee children - Embrace
- The exploratory Good Childhood Inquiry
- The Society’s campaigning and lobbying
- Leaves of Life teaching material for children
Ongoing research and development
Victor can arrange for a speaker to come to any deanery or church to give more details about the work of the Society and help to raise funds for its work. A speaker can take part in services or talk to any group (PCC, Mission Committee, Mothers’ Union etc), and addresses can be tailored to suit the occasion – from a 10 minute presentation in a service to a full evening, with a talk, questions and discussion.
Fundraising for the Society
Volunteers are the cornerstone of our work. Without your generous support, we could only reach a fraction of the children we currently help each year. Your hard work and dedication gives us the freedom to concentrate our work where the need is greatest, not just in areas where government funding is available. Together we can give countless children the vital help and support they cannot find anywhere else. Together, we can give them back their childhood.
Two of the most popular ways of raising money are by Christingle activities where the Society can help by providing materials (download to get details) and by House Collecting Boxes where small change makes a large change. By having a box in their homes which is opened annually by a Parish Co-ordinator people all over the country raise £2 million pounds each year.. But there are all sorts of other ways in which you can raise money, and the Fundraising download, or Victor, will help you.
Latest News
The Society keeps you up to date on urgent matters related to children. To read the latest of these click here.
Coming Fund-raising Events
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This site will be updated once a month.
- The Society is holding a Collection for Children Fortnight between 14 and 28 April 2012. Each year this raises over £100,000. If you would like to organise a collection, contact Victor or phone 0845-600-8585
- In January 2012 the Society published an update on its 2010 Good Childhood Enquiry. The update showed that at any one time half a million children between the ages of 8 and 15 think their childhood is unhappy
- The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, said that this should be a wake-up call to us all. The report he said was an urgent clarion call to action.
