Over three months, from October to December, KidsOut teamed up with Rotary International volunteers to help pack Toy Boxes in time to deliver to children in refuge for Christmas. It comes as no surprise that Rotary jumped at the opportunity to support KidsOut this Christmas as they are the reason why we are a charity today. Lady Grantchester approached...

  It’s no doubt that 2020 has been a difficult year for everyone, and in the most unfortunate circumstance has shown a huge rise in Domestic Violence cases. Before the pandemic, an incidence of domestic abuse was reported every minute in England and Wales. In the first three months of the lockdown last year, this rose to 66% as reported by...

The Home Office and Charitable Trusts provide more funding for Food Vouchers KidsOut have secured another round of funding from the Home Office and various Charitable Trusts to provide £25 supermarket vouchers to families living in refuge. During the first lockdown, we received a grant of £130,000 from The Home Office enabling us to send 5,200...

The Big Juicy Appreciation Society, a Facebook fan group started through a mutual love of Scotland’s favourite pint, has used its army of 33,000 members to pack over 7,500 food parcels for families in need this Christmas. Teaming up with the charity KidsOut, group admins reached out to some of the UKs biggest brands for donations to support the first...

When the Rotary Club of Edmonton voted to support KidsOut by funding twenty Christmas toy boxes, Rotarian and publican Richard Reeve pledged to match that amount via a collection in his pub, the Little Green Dragon in Winchmore Hill. But Richard hadn't bargained on his pub being forced to close for November due to the second national lockdown. Not wanting...

2020 has been a tough year for many of us, none more so than the families KidsOut supports. Covid-19 has led to a domestic abuse crisis. One call relating to domestic abuse was made to police every 30 seconds in the first seven weeks of lockdown. Most children arrive at a women’s refuge with only the clothes on their back, restricted to a single room...

KidsOut were delighted to receive an amazing donation of 1,200 boxes of brand-new toys from Hasbro. The toys will be distributed to children entering women’s refuges around the UK as part of KidsOut’s Toy Box service. With an average of 10 toys per box, a total of roughly 12,000 toys were packed and donated by Hasbro over the last two weeks of...

The Home Office has funded KidsOut's initiative to support victims of domestic abuse during the Covid-19 pandemic. A grant of £130,000 has enabled KidsOut to deliver £25 supermarket vouchers to families living in refuge between July and October 2020. KidsOut is the only national charity working with every Women’s Aid Federation refuge in...

KidsOut’s first-ever virtual “Have a Ball at Home” was a great success, raising over £35,000 for the charity’s work with disadvantaged children in refuge. Hundreds of households from across the UK joined KidsOut via a livestream on the charity’s website and YouTube for a night of fun and fundraising on Thursday 30th July...

The KidsOut team are delighted to have received a generous donation of 1,500 VELCRO® Brand toy robots. An artic lorry full of brand-new Blocks toys was delivered to the KidsOut warehouse on Tuesday 4th August 2020. The toys will be used to support the mental welfare of disadvantaged children through KidsOut’s Toy Box service. “We...

KidsOut patron and Olympic Games medallist Vicky Thornley will be supporting the charity with a virtual cookalong – and you can join her! Vicky will be cooking a lentil and cauliflower curry live on Cookalong.tv on Thursday 20th August 2020 at 19.30. All you have to do is enter the prize draw for a chance to cook live online with Vicky. All proceeds...