Appeal on behalf of the Church of England Children's Society, by Richard Dimbleby O.B.E. ,
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The object of the Society is to care for children who have been deprived, through any cause whatever, of normal home life and family affection by providing them with one nearest possible equivalent of a natural Christian family life.
The principal methods are legal adoption, boarding-out, and small Home's where children of both sexes may grow up togeftheir like ordinary families. The children are for the mos-t part victims of broken homes, parents' cruelty, illegitimacy, or genuine hardship and poverty, and every effort is made to ensure that eventually they w:il leave the Society's care wi'h the self-reliance and judgment necessary to enable them to lead good lives.
They are treated as individuals, and independence is fostered in every way. The greatest care is taken to avoid anything that savours of an institution.
The Society maintains constantly a family of nearly 5,000 children. The present upward trend in the cost of all essentials is causing expenditure to exceed income to a very serious extent, and funds are urgently needed to maintain the existing work and resist a very real threat of curtaiimem.