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  • 261
    children directly impacted
  • 171
    bedrooms fully decorated
  • 554
    volunteers engaged
Data since October 2021

Introduction

Transforming Spaces is The Childhood Trust’s community outreach programme. Each week, we redecorate disadvantaged children's bedrooms, as well as local youth clubs and community centres which children rely on for support. The purpose of the programme is to provide children living in unsuitable accommodation with safe environments where they can sleep, learn, play, and grow.

Renovation projects are designed with support from The Childhood Trust’s pro bono interior design team at Katharine Pooley and completed in one day by a group of corporate volunteers.

Corporate Volunteering

The Transforming Spaces programme's volunteering opportunities are reserved exclusively for our corporate partners - companies that make financial contributions to our core work. 

  • Corporate groups will spend the volunteer day painting, carrying out small repairs, and assembling flat pack furniture to give a child’s bedroom or a local youth centre a full makeover. 
  • Redecoration projects are completed by the volunteers in one day (9.30am - 5.30pm). 
  • Redecoration projects can accommodate groups of 6 - 12 volunteers. 
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Access Support

The Transforming Spaces programme renovates and redecorates bedrooms in poor condition for children and young people. During redecoration projects, The Childhood Trust’s team will paint the walls of the bedroom, make small repairs, and provide brand new furniture including bedding and curtains/blinds. All equipment, materials, and furniture needed for the redecoration are sourced by the programme and delivered to the families’ homes prior to the installations. 

Referrals

Our referrals are now open!

We are currently accepting referrals from those supporting families based in all London boroughs. While we welcome referrals from all areas, we are particularly interested in applications from Hackney, Camden, and Tower Hamlets. Referrals can be submitted by support workers, social workers, schools, and charities who are already working closely with a family.

To submit a referral, we ask that all referral partners consent to support the family through this process. This includes attending a site visit with a member of our team to meet the family and ensuring we can collect monitoring and evaluation information before and after the project is completed. 

Please ensure you read our FAQ document  before completing the referral form linked below. If you have any questions, you can get in touch with the Delivery Team at programmesupport@childhoodtrust.org.uk. Please note, due to the high volume of referrals, there may be a delay in our response

Refer a Family Today

"The children were absolutely ecstatic with the results! They could not wait to get into their beds and play with their toys in their rooms. Your support has helped make mum's life whole again."

Support Worker (Referral Partner)

Project Photos

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Pink decorated window
bedbunk in bedroom
Decorated bedroom
Bedroom with painted walls
set up in room to decorate
decorated room
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The Childhood Trust thanks the B&Q Foundation for generously sponsoring this programme.

We also thank Katharine Pooley and Nirvana Maintenance for supporting the programme with pro-bono services.