Leeds Children's Charity

Imagine you’re eight years old and for 365 days you have to live in poverty or suffer neglect or abuse or even take on adult responsibilities.

Imagine if, for 5 days, you could escape all that and just have fun…Leeds Children’s Charity – brightening children’s lives.

10 year old Sam looks after his Mum who suffers from serious mental health problems. Her illness means that Sam often has to cook for himself, his Mum and his two younger sisters and he’s always worried that when he comes home from school, his Mum might be in hospital again.

This year, the Leeds Children’s Charity is giving him a break and taking him on holiday – all we’ll ask of him is that he’s a child again…

For over 100 years, the Leeds Children’s Charity has been raising funds so that children who suffer from poverty, neglect, abuse or have a disability get the chance to visit the seaside, make friends and have fun.

We do this by sending 300 children each year to our holiday centre in Silverdale, an “area of outstanding natural beauty” on the border of Lancashire and Cumbria.

Specialties

Respite and relief for poverty stricken children, Raising funds give children the chance to visit the seaside, make friends and have fun for one week a year