Childlife

About Childlife

Childlife is not your typical charity. Rather than supporting a single cause, we work through four partner charities to help children and families who are struggling to navigate a range of difficult and often heart-breaking challenges.For example, we help families to…


• Cope when their child is diagnosed or living with a life-threatening illness Via Acorns Children’s Hospice
• Overcome barriers that might otherwise stand in the way of opportunity
• Via the National Deaf Children’s Society
• Find hope in the face of a progressive and little-known medical condition
• Via Ataxia UK
• Benefit more widely from policies and programmes designed to give all children the chance to grow up safe and well
• Via the National Children’s Bureau

Our roots are in the Childlife consortium, established in 1992 as a way for smaller charities to fundraise collectively through payroll giving; that’s how our own small ‘family’ of charities first came together. We still exist today because we remain an efficient and valuable asset to our four partner charities. And because our supporters appreciate the opportunity to spread their gift across a range of good causes rather than settling on only one.

Registered Charity No. 1080536

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Providing you are an employee of the University of Cambridge and you are paid through PAYE, you can donate to any national/local charity or recognised good cause.

You can also nominate more than one charity to benefit from your donations, and you can easily change the amount or nominated charities at any time or cancel your donations.

Here are some of the charities you could choose from:

University of Cambridge General Fund Cambridge Children's Hospital The Foundation Year The New Whittle Laboratory UNICEF NSPCC International Rescue Committee UK - DEC member Campod Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders Cambridge University Museum of Zoology Refugee  Council Save The Children - DEC member

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