The Faraway Children’s Charity
Meeting the diverse needs of disadvantaged, vulnerable or at risk children and young people within Northamptonshire and the surrounding areas since 2008.
Who FCC Are
The Faraway Children’s Charity (FCC) – is a registered charity established to, ‘Meet the diverse needs of disadvantaged, vulnerable or at risk children and young people within Northamptonshire and the surrounding areas.’ Since forming in 2008 we have distributed over 100,000 free resources and grants.
The charity is named after one of Enid Blyton’s children’s books: ‘The Faraway Tree’ which tells the story of a group of children who discover a magical tree where they are safe and happy.
We operate based on an innovative low cost – no cost charity model.
Almost 100% of donations received by FCC are directly distributed to Northamptonshire children and young people. As a volunteer led charity we share a commitment to low cost charity administration to ensure maximum benefits for under-resourced children and young people. Ordinarily, our only administrative expenditure is associated with insurance cover, stationary and postage.
We have a small committee of trustees and a Patron, Mrs Rachel Mallows MBE DL.
The committee consists of retired and or active professionals working with children and young people across sectors and disciplines including youth work, social work, criminal justice system, residential care, health, mental health and education. The committee have a combined 150+ years of experience and expertise in supporting children and young people between them and are all still learning.
What FCC Do
FCC Outcomes and Impacts
103,000+ Resources distributed between 2010 and 2025. Plus, we have funded children’s parties, day trips, festive celebrations, achievement celebrations, sport memberships and sponsorships.
FCC provides grants to organisations to fund a wide range of basic supplies, equipment and positive activities for under-resourced children and young people in Northamptonshire. We have a very wide definition of ‘under-resourced,’ which includes traumatised children. We define children as 0 to 17 years of age and young people as 18 to 25 years of age. We are particularly interested in supporting the needs of children in need, children in care, care leavers and young carers.
Resources can include food, clothes, uniforms, shoes, toiletries, toys, festive presents, achievement prizes, educational and sport equipment.
Any FCC funded or gifted items cannot be sold, raffled, gambled, swapped, won or exchanged in any other way and can only be given directly to children for FREE as per our intended purpose.
Activities can include celebration events, parties, day trips, festivities, services and memberships.
Children and families must not be charged for FCC funded activities, they must receive them for FREE as per our intentions.