About Kids Company

Kids Company is a charity founded by Camila Batmanghelidjh in 1996 to provide practical, emotional and educational support to vulnerable inner-city children and young people. Many of the 12,000 children who come to Kids Company have experienced severe and multiple trauma. Often they are ‘lone children’ living in chronic deprivation, with little or no support from the adults in their family. Kids Company offers a safe, caring, family environment in which support is tailored to the needs of each individual. No matter how disturbed a child is, they will never be turned away. Kids Company operates through two street level centres in South London, as well as offering therapeutic and social work services in over 30 schools. In 2007 Kids Company was awarded the Liberty and Justice Human Rights Award.