To commemorate our tenth year of supporting families we are inviting you to join us in 10 Days of Making a Difference from the 1st to the 10th October 2023.

We give dignity, choice and power to families who are struggling financially. For more information on the work we do click here.

First Days helps thousands of families a year - your support will help us support thousands more.

We are supporting families and changing lives, and by donating, so are you.

We offer emotional, practical and specialist support via our Family Support Team. We also help families access the support they need from other organisations, and we distribute essential items via our Baby Bank, School Uniform Centre and Safe Place to Sleep project.

The immediate support we give to families via the distribution of essential items is the first building block in longer term support to help families in other areas of their lives.

By helping parents in their moment of crisis, such as 'my son has lost his school shoes and I can't afford to replace them!', we alleviate the immediate crisis and then can work with families to see how else we can empower them, offer them choices and support them into a situation where they never need to make that phone call to us, or another charity like ours, again.

Don't take our work for it though, here is what three of the parents we have supported said:

‘I don't know where I would be if I didn't have the love and support of your charity. I feel like family to every staff member. You give me time of day to express my worries and don't make me feel stupid.’

'I can't thank you enough for the help and kindness you have shown to myself and children. Life is very hard and stressful a times and First Days helps to take some of the financial pressure off.'

'Every one is kind, helpful. you make me feel like family and not like i'm scared to ask for help. truly some wonderful people who have helped and supported me and my children'