Save the Children Charity
Save the Children are the world's independent children's charity. Millions of children are still denied proper healthcare, food, education and protection. Save the Children are working flat out to get every child their rights and are determined to make further, faster changes, working to right the fundamental wrongs that affect children.
Too many children are still dying because they haven't got enough food or because they can't get treatment for simple illnesses. Millions aren't getting an education and are being exploited and abused. This is not good enough, and Save the Children are committed to doing something about it.
Browse the Save the Children online store and send a life-saving Wish List gift. When a customer buys a gift from Wish List, Save the Children give that actual gift to a child and their family in one of the poorest places in the UK or around the world. The customer receives a greetings card of their choice and a Wish Certificate inside explaining how their gift will directly benefit children - they then give this as a gift to a friend or relative.
The selection of gifts Save the Children sell all directly benefit children specifically - and they sell all sorts of things from footballs to family food baskets, bicycles to baby kits, shoes to school desks! Prices range from £7 to over £500, and there are loads of gifts priced perfectly for Christmas presents. Alternatively you can make regular or one-off donations!
We Save the Children! Will you?
How your donations to Save the Children Charity will be used?
From every £1 you give, Save the Children spend 85 pence to benefit children and use the remaining 15 pence to raise the next £1.
Save the Children charitable expenditure hit £179.8 million in the year 2008/09, more on charitable activities than ever before:
- Ensuring children are free from hunger - £63.0m
- Ensuring children receive education - £46.1m
- Ensuring children receive healthcare - £24.2m
- Ensuring children remain protected in an unsafe world - £36.4m
- Information, campaigning and awareness - £10.1m
In the cold climate of the recession, Save the Children have taken some tough decisions to make sure they stay true to their aims of helping the world's most vulnerable children. They're cutting their ongoing operating costs by about 10% and will continue this tough look at all their work to give them an even stronger basis going forward.
Save the Children are not losing any of their ambition and are committed to their plans to invest in a global campaign to stop children dying. However, they know they've a responsibility to donors and the children they support to be as prudent as possible.
