What we could do with your support

In 2024 the cost of our vital work will be approximately £625,000. If we are to double the number of places and offer more services to those that most need them, our annual costs will rise to over £850,000 per year. We generate almost all of our income from grants and donations with minimal government funding.    

Residential project places

£2,500 - covers the cost of five places on our therapeutic residentials

£5,000 - pays for ten places          

£7,500 - pays for 15 places

£10,000 - pays for 20 places on our therapeutic residentials

 

Activities

£1,000 -  Covers the full cost of home cooked, nutritious meals for a 5-day residential for 20 of our most vulnerable children

£1,000 - Pays for a full year of mentoring for a particularly isolated child.             

£2,500 – Keeps our minibus on the road for a year - supporting 200 children each year to get to and from their residentials with us. All would have no other way of leaving London.

£2,500 - Supports one of our 14-15 year olds to return as a Young Leader and provide role modelling on our projects for younger children. This covers the full costs of their training, support and project expenses from age 15 to 18, when they'll make the transition to become an adult volunteer.

£5,000 - Pays for every single one of our children to try horse-riding this year.

£25,000 – Covers the cost of our entire Easter respite holiday programme. 

 

Staff

£10,000 - Funds the recruitment and training costs of the approximately 150 new volunteers we need to induct to join our volunteer team each year in order to run our projects.

£15,000 - Would allow our youth worker to provide targetted 1:1 support for 8 particularly high risk young people for a year.

£25,000 - Covers 6 months of salary, training and employment costs for a dedicated staff member, meaning they can work with social workers, teachers and mental health workers to identify the children in London most in need of our support.                                                                                                                  

Equipment  

£2,500 – Would buy a full set of new tents, allowing all of our children to experience a night camping out under the stars this summer.

£5,000 – Would help us to kit out the kitchen in our new project site with the appliances our volunteers need to cook delicious meals for all of the children who come to stay with us.  

£30,000 - Would allow us to puchase a second minibus, to transport our children to and from their activities. 

To find out more, see our Impact Report