With the ongoing pandemic leading to an increase in the number of families financially struggling, many of our services have seen an increase in requests for school uniform support ahead of the return to school. Katie is the Community Development…
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Providing essential hygiene packs to families in Birmingham
As the lockdown continues to ease we have been able to reflect on ways that our services have continued to support families throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. In many cases, the support we have been able to provide has been made…
Covid-19 – update from Spurgeons
Four months since the UK entered the Coronavirus lockdown much has changed in our country. Terms such as ‘unprecedented’ and the ‘new normal’ are frequently used to describe the momentous changes we are living through, and we have had to…
Norwich prison residents beat lockdown to build new visitor centre play area
While coronavirus put Norwich through lockdown, prison residents in the city were rolling up their sleeves and doing their bit to transform the children’s play area of a prison visitor centre. The visitor centre at Norwich Prison, run by Spurgeons…
‘Offering a Helping Hand’ to families of those sentenced to IPP
Spurgeons has published a new booklet that addresses the impact of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) and other indeterminate sentences on prisoners and their families. Offering a Helping Hand is a joint publication by Spurgeons and Southampton Law School and…
Women and children bearing brunt of ‘lockdown’, Commons committee told
The coronavirus pandemic is hitting women and children particularly hard. That’s the view of key workers at Spurgeons Children’s Charity, a national charity working with vulnerable children and families across the country, and expressed in written evidence submitted to and…
152 organisations call on Government to put children at the heart of recovery
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been widespread, affecting the lives of every baby, child and young person in the country. This generation of children face unprecedented threats to their childhoods. They deserve an unprecedented response. We are joining…
Together we can make a difference
Today (5 June) is day 74 of the lockdown. The Coronavirus has dominated our lives for almost three months, but in the last week, the headlines have been dominated by the uncomfortable truth about inequality, prejudice, and the violence it…
Vital family support to continue, thanks to £5k community grant
An Elmbridge-based charity that’s already made more than 300 emergency deliveries to 80 local families in need of food and household items has been awarded £5,000 to extend its work during the coronavirus lockdown. Spurgeons, a national children’s charity that…
Charity leads joint support for prisoners and their families in pandemic
While a new report* states that “significant threat levels” remain for our prisons from Covid-19 and calls for restrictions to be kept in place till April 2021, a children’s charity continues to lead innovative ways to support both prisoners and…