Our Charitable Giving: How it Helped 2025’s Recipients

At CharityJob and CharityConnect, we feel it’s important to contribute back to the sector. So as part of our commitment to annual charitable giving, we donate a proportion of our profits to small charities every year. One year on from receiving their donations, we asked 2025’s recipients to share how they’d utilised the funds they’d received….  

Warwickshire Pride

Warwickshire Pride offers a huge variety of support services and social activities that are focused on preserving and protecting the physical and mental health of LGBTQ+ people. They also advance education in relation to LGBTQ+ communities and topics.

Thanks to the kind support of CharityJob, we have been able to roll out support for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers who have been placed in Warwickshire. This has involved peer support, emotional support, befriending, access to Warwickshire Pride services, signposting, and financial assistance.
Thank you for the support provided. It has really helped. It has resulted in less isolation, improved mental health, strengthened asylum applications, and a sense of community among LGBTQ+ asylum seekers.

Some of the LGBTQ+ asylum seekers who accessed mental health support from Warwickshire Pride said: 

“Thank you for taking the time to speak with me during the consultation. I really appreciate your kindness and the space you created for me to share my situation.”

“I felt a strong connection, and felt completely supported throughout the session. Daniel did an excellent job of creating a comfortable and safe digital space for us to talk. I’ve come away from this appointment feeling a genuine sense of hope and a much more positive outlook on the future. It was exactly what I needed.”

The Separated Child Foundation 

The Separated Child Foundation provides support to unaccompanied children and young people who are refugees and asylum seekers, and who have been separated from their families, carers and communities.  

CharityJob’s 2025 grant enabled us to offer practical, emotional, and social support to separated children in three ways:

1. Our welcome packs provide essentials like toiletries, clothing and towels for children, offering comfort and dignity. 
2. Our sleep packs are designed to help with sleep-related issues such as insomnia and nightmares.   
3. Finally, Club Class is a safe space for children to meet peers, make friends and practise English. Last year we supported 223 children through weekly sessions. 100% reported that they had improved their English and made new friends, and 90% said Club Class improved their knowledge of UK life.   

 The children and young people who benefitted from The Separated Child Foundation’s support said:   

“The night light is perfect. I keep it beside me, and it helps me feel safe when I wake up during the night.”   

“It was the first time in a long while I received something just for me. Thank you for making me smile.”  

“The money session – how to manage money when I live independently – was really important for me.”

Dragonfly Cancer Trust

Dragonfly Cancer Trust works with specialist cancer treatment centres, hospitals, hospices and families across the UK to provide support for young patients with a life-threatening cancer diagnosis. 

 The generous support received through the Charity Giving initiative in 2025 enabled Dragonfly Cancer Trust to provide meaningful, immediate help to young patients with cancer and their families. The funds were used to create and deliver our Activity, Sibling and Memory‑Making Boxes, each one designed to bring comfort, distraction, and moments of joy during treatment. These resources helped families make precious memories at a time when normal life had been turned upside down. The funding also supported our wider legacy services, including personalised keepsakes and small grants that allow families to spend time together in ways that feel right for them. Your kindness made a genuine difference, and we are deeply grateful for the impact it continues to have.

One of the families who received an Activity Box said:  

“When everything felt overwhelming, the support we received made such a difference. The Activity Box gave us something gentle and positive to focus on, and it helped us create moments we will always treasure. It reminded us that we were not facing this alone, and that kindness can reach you even on the hardest days.” 

Surrey Drug and Alcohol Care (SDAC)

Surrey Drug and Alcohol Care provides a confidential telephone counselling service for people in Surrey who are affected by their own or somebody else’s drug and/or alcohol problem.  

Following your very generous donation towards our Telephone Counselling Service (TCS) Service I wanted to let you know how vital this funding has been for the charity and to show you what a huge difference it has made to the lives of our clients.
Our team of BACP-accredited counsellors have been working tirelessly to provide this service. While our primary service was directed at those affected by drugs and alcohol, we also supported those with mental health issues. Over the past year we have seen and helped many different clients. We take anyone who wishes to reduce, stop or remain clean and sober at whatever stage they are at, and whatever their circumstances.
The funding received has enabled us to provide 252 hours of TCS, specifically helping 21 clients. Your generosity has helped these people, supporting them with a way forward.  

David Kerr overcame his alcohol dependency thanks to Surrey Drug and Alcohol Care. He said:  

“A number of years ago, the odds of me turning my life around were a million to one. What changed everything was a free local charity. It gave me a roadmap out of the darkness. It’s there at the end of a phone for people at their lowest, but it only exists because people fund it. Every pound keeps that phone line open and ready for someone who needs it.”

CRADLE

CRADLE provides emotional support to anyone affected by pregnancy loss, the death of a baby during pregnancy, or termination for any reason.  From initial guidance to ongoing support, they help individuals and families navigate complex emotional challenges. 

CharityJob’s funding enabled CRADLE to deliver its CONNECTED online support service, providing people affected by pregnancy loss with free, accessible mental health and emotional support. Sessions facilitated by qualified trauma and bereavement counsellors provided a safe, confidential space where participants could talk openly about their experiences without judgement. From September 2025 to 2026, 278 seats were taken on CONNECTED calls, meaning that over 200 individuals were able to receive vital mental health support when they needed it the most.

By delivering CONNECTED online and placing no fixed limit on how many sessions someone can attend, CRADLE removes barriers including cost, travel, geography, childcare and mobility, allowing people to access support from home and continue for as long as they feel they need it. The funding has helped cover the costs of specialist counsellors and clinical supervision, ensuring the service is delivered safely and to a high professional standard. Most importantly, having this funding means we were able to increase our support and have now successfully eliminated the need for a waitlist for this service. 

Attendees who benefitted from attending CRADLE CONNECTED sessions said: 

“Having someone not too personally involved in my situation has allowed me to listen and talk openly and honestly about the process physically and mentally. It has given me a chance to vent those feelings and understand I am not alone in some of those feelings and situations. Thank you for being that place and offering this service as there is not much out there and it can feel so lonely during the bad days.” 

“The ladies who led the session were amazingly supportive and understanding. In the sessions, we talked about returning to work, how it’s normal to feel anxious and sad after a loss and that every loss is different but matters. I unfortunately had another loss and whilst at the hospital saw the leaflets for CRADLE and this reminded me of these sessions and how I may find them useful again in the future. Thank you”  

“It really helped me feel less lonely, at a time when I had no one.  It helped me to meet and connect others in my situation. I was able to cry and wipe my tears after attending a session…prior to this I had no one to wipe my tears, no one understood what I went through and no one cared, but CRADLE CONNECTED understood and cared.” 

Apply now for CharityJob’s 2026 charitable donation

Your charity could be eligible to receive a share of this year’s £50,000 donation, as five great causes will each secure a generous gift of £10,000.

To be eligible, your charity must:
– be UK-based (not a CIC)
– spend its funds on UK-based causes only
– have received less than £1m in income and had less than £1m of expenditure in the last financial year
– have been registered for more than one year, with published accounts.

If you’d like your organisation to be considered for a donation, simply complete the application form for a chance to secure these vital funds. You just need to tell us some basic details about your charity, what you’d use the funds for, and the impact this would have.

CharityJob donations in numbers:
£1,493,830 donated so far
124 charities supported
£50,000 available in 2026

Applications for CharityJob’s 2026 annual charitable giving are open from 14th to 25th September 2026. Successful applicants will be contacted during the week beginning Monday 2nd November 2026. Apply here.