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EVENT - Fantastic caberet evening.
 Dear Friend of FFC,
Please find attached an invite to our next fundraising event which Steve Parr is very kindly organising for us. Steve and Chris are giving their services for free in support of FFC. It would be lovely to see as many of you as possible there. The venue holds 300 so please extend this invitation to all your family, friends and colleagues.
With very best wishes, Ally
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NEWS - Nick Allan is doing 100 km through the Picos in Northern Spain for Families for Children.
Hi, I have looked with admiration for years as people have run, swam and walked, slept out and pursued other sundry activities in aid of charity. I am now intending to do something myself. I have recently become the trustee of a charity down here in Devon called Families for Children (FFC), which is the merged adoption agencies of the Catholic and Anglican churches in the South West.
Last year FFC placed 40 children with local families and had a breakdown rate of zero. Long term their breakdown rate is 4%. This is remarkable when contrasted with the national adoption breakdown rate of 20%. It is even more remarkable when one considers that the children FFC place are those who the local authorities feel that they are unlikely to be able to place successfully. This means that the children we place are all older children (not babies) with troubled histories and complex needs, typically multiple siblings or children with a family history of substance or physical abuse. Most would come from a deprived inner-city background and have very unpromising futures.
It is a shocking fact that one in two prisoners and one in three homeless people aged under 25 grew up in care. Youngsters who grow up in care have a 1% chance of going on to higher education. There were 60,900 children in care on 31 March 2005, primarily (63%) because of abuse or neglect. 5% of children in care are placed for adoption. Families for Children exists to provide a better future for these special children. The problems of the children whom we place for adoption do not vanish at placement. The local authorities pay a basic fee for placement, but in order to achieve the success rate that we are achieving, FFC needs to raise £225,000 a year to provide ongoing permanent support to the families and children involved. At a cost of less than £6,000 a child to provide a real future, this seems to me to be astonishingly worthwhile.
In order to try and help, I am intending to walk around 100 km through the Picos in Northern Spain with a friend (Philip Kerr) between the 18th and 22nd April. I am going to travel extremely light, with a small pack and stay in small hotels (and possibly one refugio). We are not planning to go above the snow line I am told (and pray). Nick Allan
If you would like to sponsor Nick Allan please click here
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EVENT - Come and celebrate National Adoption Week (5-11 Nov) with us at Pennywell Farm on Sunday 28th October 2007
Pennywell is open from 10am - 5pm. We will be holding a Service of Thanksgiving for Families at 2pm in the Pennywell Theatre. Led by The Revd. Canon Bruce Duncan, MBE, Chair of FFC Trustees
At 3pm we will have a party tea in Henny Penny’s Cafe with a children’s entertainer
All this for the special rate of £8.75 per person
To download the flyer and form click here - pdf format
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NEWS - Paul Winwood running the New York Marathon for Families for Children.
If you would like to sponsor Paul Winwood in the 2007 New York Marathon please click here
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The agency has an explicit commitment to long-term support of their adoptive parents and families
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The Commssion for Social Care Inspection Report, 2005
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LATEST NEWS AND EVENTS
Michael Caines, Patron of Families for Children, invites you to an Olde English Evening at Abode, Exeter on Saturday 4th Oct - click here to download pdf invite
Ring Ally on 01364 645488 for more info
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