War Child Blog

Website re-launch

admin — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:29:48 +0000

We're really excited to announce the launch of the new War Child website. If you've come to warchild.org.uk before you'll probably have noticed a few changes have taken place. We hope you like them. If you've never been before we hope you like what you're seeing too.

We've added a load of new features to the site which we hope will make it easier to keep up with our work, let you have your say and show your support for our work.

Celebrities show their support for Iraq Appeal

admin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:12:14 +0000

Our Iraq Appeal has already attracted the support of thousands of people, including Elton John, Adam and Joe and Maximo Park. Have a look at these videos to see what they're saying about it.

War Child is hiring

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:03:29 +0000

War Child is looking for talented individuals to take on the roles of Programmes Director, Fundraising and Marketing Assistant, Policy Assistant and Online Assistant. If you thrive in a fast-paced, challenging environment have a look at the full job descriptions available here.

Blog for War Child

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:30:48 +0000

We love a good blog here at War Child so we're really pleased to announce that we're working with the lovely people behind You're Not the Only One. It's a collection of some of the best writing from around the blogosphere that will be sold in aid of War Child. And you can contribute.

Polling the nation

kellya — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:19:35 +0100

Over the past few weeks War Child asked you what the UK government could best do to help developing countries: provide more financial aid, help with training for politicians, doctors and teachers, make it easier for them to sell their goods in Britain, put diplomatic pressure on countries’ own governments to change or... invade them. No prizes for guessing which option came last.

Jon Snow and students speak up for War Child

kellya — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:31:48 +0100

Students from Calthorpe Park School in Hampshire joined Channel Four newsreader Jon Snow and War Child CEO Mark Waddington in meeting the All Party Parliamentary Group on Street Children last week to talk about the problems faced by children who have ended up on the streets due to conflict.

Sir Paul McCartney gives War Child a peace sign

kellya — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:00:08 +0100

Sir Paul McCartney is possibly the definition of a national treasure. It’s a surprise his photo isn’t next to the definition of ‘legend’ when you flick through the dictionary. So you can imagine we wanted to shout about it when he lent us his support recently.

BBC denies help to charity response to the humanitarian disaster in Gaza

admin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:46:40 +0000

More than 1,300 civilians have been killed in Gaza, of which a third have been children. A further 5,500 people, many of them also children, have been injured as a result of the recent strikes into Gaza.

These are not merely statistics. They represent the loss of human life and the profound damage caused to the lives of real people and their families.