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Spurgeons is a Christian children’s charity with a history spanning 150 years. Our values are core to who we are and we aim to reflect these in everything we do. We are dedicated to giving vulnerable children a better present and a hope-filled life and we are committed to safeguarding our legacy for the future.

Thanks to the careful and thoughtful management of our assets, income, gifts and legacies, we are financially secure. With firm foundations in place, we will be able to continue our work in supporting children and families for years to come.

We work hard to understand local needs and develop bespoke solutions for individual communities and services. Our robust systems and policies are designed to adapt to a wide range of needs and requirements, with the flexibility to integrate with localised processes.

We are committed to making sure the services and support we provide work for every one who needs us. We have comprehensive monitoring and evaluation processes to check that what we are doing is working. At the heart of this is our unique ‘Spurgeons’ Outcomes Framework’ which incorporates the EFQM Excellence model (2013), and was developed with the New Philanthropy Capital. This model of monitoring gives us confidence that we are meeting the needs of our service users, and that we can have the greatest possible positive impact.

Because we are embedded and involved in communities, we can create genuine partnerships with other agencies and services in the area. We welcome other groups and organisations to play a role in our services, so that we can work together to find long lasting solutions for individual needs

We have an extensive volunteer network and dedicated local fundraisers which means that our front line staff have everything they need to provide the best possible support to the people who need us.

In the year up to the end of March 2020, Spurgeons ran 50 projects and services which were delivered in 22 Local Authority areas across England.

This brought us into contact with 29,835 children and young people and 33,232 adult family members. Of these, we worked intensively with 3,095 children and young people to directly help them overcome the challenges they faced and reduced their vulnerability and disadvantage.

We make every effort to protect the children we are concerned about from harm, and in the last year, we responded to safeguarding incidents that directly or indirectly affected 1,022 children. We saw each one of these cases through to the conclusion of the safeguarding concerns we raised about them. 37 adults were also safeguarded through this activity.

In addition to our commissioned services, we aim to influence change through speaking up on behalf of children and families who need our help. We do this through raising awareness of key issues, advocating on their behalf and ensuring their voices are heard.