Current Campaigns

Current Campaigns

Tuesday, 02, Dec 2008 08:15


Please take part in our current campaign actions and help poor and vulnerable children in the UK and around the world.

Please keep checking back here. There is normally a new action once a month.

UK Childhood Poverty

The £1000 Penalty

We've all heard about celebrities getting free gifts they could easily afford, but things are quite different for those with the least in the UK.

Families on low incomes can pay over £1000 more than the average family for every day items like bills, loans and insurance.

  • Tell Gordon Brown this is unacceptable

  • Email your MP

  • Find out more about the campaign

    Rewrite the Future

    Over 43 million children living with the effects of conflict can't go to school. Yet education is the very thing that could keep them safe, give them and their countries hope, and transform their lives.

    Help us rewrite the future and bring quality education to the children who need it most.

    Find out more about the campaign and take action here

    Are you Gordon Brown?

  • 800 Children could be saved every day if healthcare was free in Africa

  • WE'RE fighting their corner

  • YOU add your voice

  • www.savethechildren.org.uk/gordon

    Are you Gordon Brown? Do you know a Gordon Brown?

    We're piling on the pressure in the run up to the G8 by finding all the Gordon Brown's in the UK and getting them to say "yes" to free healthcare in Africa. With your help we can get top UK politician Gordon Brown to do the same...

    If you're not called Gordon Brown, but are shocked at the injustice of the world's poorest children having to pay for healthcare, you can get involved too.

    Check out our campaign and the Gordon Browns we've found so far on our special website www.savethechildren.org.uk/gordon

    • Latest Press Releases

    Save the Children: Anthrax infections bring new misery to cholera-hit Zimbabwe

    A deadly outbreak of anthrax has killed two children and one adult and is threatening to wipe out at least 60,000 livestock in Zimbabwe’s northern Zambezi Valley, Save the Children warned today.

    Save the Children: Hats off to UK knitters who have helped save hundreds of thousands of children's lives

    As Save the Children’s six-month long ‘Knit One, Save One’ campaign draws to a close this week the charity reports that a grand total of 650,000 baby hats were knitted by a staggering 50,000 individual knitters.

    Save the Children: Schoolchildren seized as armed groups in DR Congo recruit child soldiers

    Armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo have attacked a school in a bid to recruit child soldiers.

    Save the Children: Blue Peter puts food back on the menu with its biggest-ever appeal: Mission Nutrition

    As world food prices sky-rocket, malnutrition reigns large, and the credit crunch sees poverty take its toll, Blue Peter will tomorrow launch Mission Nutrition to help children around the world eat and grow better food.