SOS Children's Villages

inmypocketnottheirs

Has anyone heard of this organisation.

I am considering sponsoring a child, and have found this through google.

Just wondering if any one has any experience or knowledge of this organisation.

Many thanks

Phil

Savvy_Sue

I looked them up because I thought I remembered learning something about them many years ago, and I think it is the 'village' I remember, so they have been around for a long time. Sorry that I can't tell you any more than that!

oldtoolie

If you are keen on child sponsorship, I would reccommend Action Aid or Save the Children. As someone who watches the international charity field closely, I think they are efficient and well run.

Look at Guidestar to find out about charities.
http://www.guidestar.org.uk/

Here's what they say about themselves:

GuideStar UK is an independent charity set up in 2003 to provide, for the first time, a single, easily accessible source of detailed information about every charity and voluntary organisation in the UK.

Our ambition is for https://www.guidestar.org.uk to become the first place that anyone wanting information on a charity will look. The site provides a high profile free web presence, not just for established charities, but also for the many smaller specialist and local organisations that currently do not have websites. It will promote greater public understanding of the work of charities and how they are managed. And it will become an invaluable source of statistical and financial information for grant makers, researchers and public policy makers.

No one pays to be included in our database and use of the website will also remain absolutely free of charge.

Currently, our site contains details of the 167,000 registered main charities in England and Wales. In the future we will include charities in Scotland and Northern Ireland and social enterprises and informal voluntary groups. The base information about each charity is provided from the records of the Charity Commission - and subsequently maintained and updated by the charities themselves using online editing tools that we provide.

We are supported by HM Treasury, the Home Office, the Charity Commission and grant making trusts in the UK and US and by private donations.