PiggyBankKids is a charity that creates opportunities for children and young people who would otherwise miss out.
It is an umbrella charity that runs a number of projects, often in partnership with other charities. All its work is in the UK.
PiggyBankKids’s work includes:
The Jennifer Brown Research Fund
The Jennifer Brown Research Fund has created a new research laboratory in Edinburgh to solve pregnancy difficulties and save newborn lives. The fund finances four separate research projects – looking at pre-eclampsia, early labour problems, curing blindness in premature babies and reducing incidences of brain damage in premature babies.
PiggyBankKids has recently launched a new popular appeal to raise a further £1 million to continue support for this research. Designed around the theme of babies smiling, the appeal will combine ‘Smile’ with ‘Million’ to become the ‘Search for a Smillion’ campaign, and will be featured on our website and in our newsletters during 2005.
The Big Night In
Launched in 2004 this fundraising initiative invites people to host a party or an event at home. Our next Big Night In is scheduled for Thursday 10 November 2005. All money raised during the Big Night In goes directly to projects ranging from the Jennifer Brown Research Fund to mentoring and family support services and charities focusing on improving sports provision for vulnerable young people.
Mentoring and volunteering
PiggyBankKids works with a number of charity partners supporting the mentoring of young people providing fundraising, PR and marketing advice. To support this work we published Moving On Up, edited by Sarah Brown, where famous people wrote about the mentors who had most influenced their lives. Free copies of Moving On Up were sent to every state and independent secondary school in the UK.
PiggyBankKids has given grants to a number of charities including one-parent families and family service units, and edited two anthologies of stories, Magic and Summer Magic, both published by Bloomsbury, with royalties going to one-parent families.
Sports Provision
PiggyBankKids is supporting Special Olympics Great Britain – which provides sports facilities for young people with learning difficulties – with the publication of this book.
You can read more about PiggyBankKids projects at www.piggybankkids.org