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From funding apprenticeships to lobbying for change, we’re helping care-experienced people get a fairer start in life.

Help us do more.

From funding apprenticeships to lobbying for change, we’re helping young people from care get a fairer start in life.

Help us do more.

"With commitment and mission and passion, great things can happen."

Building Happier Future advisory film

Our charity partners

Along with Action for Children, Who Cares? Scotland and Home-Start, we’re working to create a happier future for care-experienced people

How we're helping

Careers

We've created scholarships to make finding a job easier

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Education

Find out how we're helping young people from care stay in education

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Change

We're asking those in power to introduce fairer policies

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Early intervention

Discover the steps we're taking to help families from the beginning

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Our progress in numbers

£1.1m

donated to charities

£125,000

fundraising products sold

77

apprentices hired

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Did you know, 41% of young care leavers aren’t in education, training or employment compared to 11% of their peers

Help give care-experienced people a fairer roll of the dice

Do you need help?

If you need to chat to someone about your experience of care, these five charities are here to help

Become

For ongoing coaching, crisis
support, a safe space and more

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Action for Children

Offering practical and emotional
care and support near you

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Drive Forward Foundation

For mentoring opportunitues, work
placements and more

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Who Cares? Scotland

Offering connection, a listening ear,
lifelong advocacy and support

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Home Start

Local charities providing early support for children and families

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Donations Terms & Conditions
  1. Photographs are posed by models to protect the identities of the young people we’re supporting.

  2. 100% of your donation will go to the Building Happier Futures fund, part of the John Lewis Partnership Foundation, registered company number 06058796 and charity number 1118162. Your donation will contribute to building supportive communities for care-experienced people, and help families and carers to create happy and secure homes. The John Lewis Partnership Foundation has committed to use 65% of total donations to continue supporting our work with: Action for Children (Charity no. in England and Wales 1097940 and in Scotland SC038092), Home-Start UK (Charity no. in England and Wales 1108837 and in Scotland SC039172) and Who Cares? Scotland (Registered Charity Number: SC026076)

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