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End of an era: Our 34 year journey with The Body Shop

29/2/2024

Dame Anita Roddick

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With the closure of The Body Shop at Home and major changes to the global business, we want to take this opportunity to thank and honour those we have journeyed with since 1990.

Over three decades, the partnership modelled Dame Anita Roddick’s belief in “business as a force for good” and continued her legacy after she co-founded the charity with our CEO Rachel Bentley in 1990, who began working with The Body Shop the year before.

June Monthly Highlights from Children on the Edge

10/7/2023

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We’ve just kicked off our brand new virtual challenge - Summer Steps for Refugees - but as we step into July, we wanted to look back and share some of the stories and achievements from last month.

Read on to find out about the resilience of the Nagarpur community as they rallied together to build a temporary learning centre after the area was bulldozed, Harley’s brilliant banana fundraiser and how cluster learners in Kyaka II are thriving at primary school.

Sparks Fly: Our Annual Review 2022-2023

5/7/2023

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This year, we reached more children than ever before, and saw three of our models of education and child protection scaled and replicated to new places. Our latest Annual Review highlights what has been achieved and the impact our programmes have had in 2022-2023.

Read our summary below or Download the Full Version here.

Monthly Highlights from Children on the Edge

31/3/2023

Monthly Highlights from COTE March 2023

Every month we receive lots of fantastic news from our programmes, our partners and our wonderful supporters and we know that it can be hard to keep up with it all, so we’ve compiled some of our highlights from the month to share with you.

This month our highlights include Rachel’s OBE ceremony, Iryna’s story and our first video from Kachin State, Myanmar.

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Children on the Edge in 2022 - Our Highlights

3/1/2023

Children on the Edge works in coalition with local communities in some of the toughest places in the world, transforming the lives of marginalised children by creating protective environments where they can safely live, play, learn and grow.

2022 has been an incredible year of transformation for the children we work with, thanks to continued support of our Children on the Edge community.

We'd love to invite you to grab a cup of tea and read through our monthly highlights from 2022 and see just how much your generosity is making a difference.......

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Our Impact in 2022: The Highlights

31/12/2022

Children in Bangladesh planting trees

Children on the Edge works in coalition with local communities in some of the toughest places in the world, transforming the lives of marginalised children by creating protective environments where they can safely live, play, learn and grow.

2022 was an incredible year of transformation for the children we work with, thanks to continued support of our Children on the Edge community.

We invite you to grab a cup of tea and spend some time reading through our highlights page to find out all about the impact you had in 2022, and just how much your generosity is making a difference.

READ THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2022

A Chichester charity that makes a big difference

30/11/2022

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Children on the Edge is a Chichester based charity that works to support some of the worlds' most marginalised children, living in some of the toughest situations.

The charity was co-founded in 1990 by Bishop Luffa graduate and Chichester resident, Rachel Bentley and the late Dame Anita Roddick.

After witnessing the appalling conditions in Romanian orphanages first hand, Dame Anita Roddick mobilised her company, The Body Shop International, based in Littlehampton, to help.

The Body Shop, sent supplies and a small group of volunteers, to help three orphanages in the remote village of Halaucesti. Rachel Bentley, a 23-year-old law graduate from Chichester, was one of these volunteers, and together, they sparked the response that created Children on the Edge, which exists to this day to support some of the most marginalised children around the world.

The First Spark - Anita Roddick and Children on the Edge

22/10/2022

As we approach what would have been the late Dame Anita Roddick's 80th birthday, we take a look back at our history and what sparked Anita and her company, The Body Shop to co-found Children on the Edge in 1990. Rachel Bentley, our CEO talks about Anita in those early days, describing how The Body Shop and Children on the Edge are still working to create brighter futures for children around the world to this day.

Supporting Children on the Edge - Why Should I Become a Regular Giver?

14/10/2022

Children on the Edge works hand-in-hand with local communities around the world to create safe spaces, where children are able to realise their rights. We rely entirely on donations from our amazing community of supporters, who currently fund vital work for over 20,000 marginalised children, and we couldn’t do it without them!

We are so grateful to receive one-off donations from individuals, from fundraising activities and events, as well as fantastic contributions from trusts, foundations and corporate partners. In addition... an excellent way that you can support us, that really does pack a punch, is a regular, monthly donation.

Children on the Edge win iF Design Social Impact Prize

30/8/2022

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded an iF Design Social Impact Prize for our Cluster Learning refugee education programme in Kyaka II refugee settlement, Uganda.