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To speak to an adviser, please call our free and confidential advice line 0808 801 0366 (Monday to Friday 9.30am to 3pm, excluding Bank Holidays). Or you can ask us a question via email using our advice enquiry form.
Help us to help kinship carers this Christmas
We’re excited that Family Rights Group is taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge this year, the UK’s biggest match funding campaign.
Thanks to pledges from some of our donors and match funding from the Reed Foundation, every pound raised in this Big Give Christmas Challenge, up to our target of £2,500, will be doubled. Starting today (Tuesday, 3rd December 2024), you can donate through the Big Give’s website. Every donation made until Tuesday, 10th December will be matched by our supporters.
This year we are running our Christmas campaign for kinship carers, to ensure we can provide specialist advice to more relatives and friends stepping in to raise children, while campaigning for improved recognition and support.
We’re aiming to meet an ambitious target in our 50th anniversary year, and your help could make that happen.
How you can get involved:
1) Visit the Big Give website during the challenge week and make your donation
2) Encourage your friends and family to donate too
For more information on The Big Give Christmas Challenge, please email John Loveday jloveday@frg.org.uk.
Why your giving matters:
There are a record number of children in the care system in England, with children often separated from siblings, having to change schools, living far from family and friends, and often with poor outcomes.
The system is hugely expensive, costing the tax-payer over £10 billion per year, yet all too often opportunities to explore how a child’s family and friends can help are missed or come late in the day when the situation has already reached crisis point. At Family Rights Group we campaign for kinship carers – relatives or friends who step in to raise children who cannot live at home – to be recognised and supported.
Where your donation goes:
Any donation will help us to ensure that kinship carers can access the practical, emotional and financial help they need for themselves and their children.
Below are some examples of how different donation amounts can make a difference:
- £26 will pay for specialist advice via our webchat for an older brother who stepped in to raise his sister but is desperate to get bereavement support himself
- £50 will enable us to advise an aunt who is struggling to cover even the basic costs of raising her niece, such as food and school clothes
- £75 will provide follow-up advocacy support to a grandmother whose grandchildren are in emergency care, so they can be together in time for Christmas
- £150 will allow us to support kinship carers to share their experiences with policymakers and press for urgent changes to the law.
Please do head over to the Big Give page now and see your donation doubled!
Our funding means we can currently only help 4 in 10 people
Your donation will help more families access expert legal advice and support from Family Rights Group.
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