Appeal on behalf of the National Children's Home and Orphanage by Sir Adrian Boult
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The National Children's Home was founded by Dr. T. Bowman Stephenson in 1869. Since then more than 35,000 children have been received into its care, and today there are forty branches caring for more than three thousand boys and girls. The Children's Home is nation wide but it is not nationalised.
The number of applications for admission shows no sign of diminishing, and during the past year 661 orphan children and children from broken homes were admitted. To give a family atmosphere the children live together in small groups of eight to ten boys and girls of varying ages, and each group has its own house-mother.
£ 365,000 is needed annually from voluntary sources to carry on this work of caring for children.