10 months ago
lauren daniell
£10.00
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11 months ago
Amy
£20.00
Happy Christmas Smiles! xx
11 months ago
Anonymous
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
11 months ago
June Rankin
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Something to help you reach your target
12 months ago
Katie Owen
£10.00
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12 months ago
Anonymous
£10.00
This is a brilliant thing to do
12 months ago
Gillian Charlton
£20.00
+ £5.00 Gift Aid
Keep up the fantastic work
1 year ago
Robyn Hilless
£20.00
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1 year ago
Georgina Boyce
£50.00
+ £12.50 Gift Aid
1 year ago
Gaye
£20.00
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About us
Little Troopers is a registered charity supporting all children with one or both parents serving in our British Armed Forces (regular or reserve). These children face unique daily challenges due to their parents career choice especially when they experience repeated separation of varying lengths of time from their serving parent(s) due to exercises and operations plus moving home and school frequently due to service requirements.
As a charity we ensure all Little Troopers have fundamental resources available to help ease and aid any separation period, to help when moving home/school frequently and provide initiatives supporting every area of military life. It is important to us that support can be reached self-sufficiently from wherever military children are based, that initiatives are in existence to keep serving parent and child connected when miles separate and that there is a community celebrating how special all the Little Troopers out there really are!
Our charity was first created back in 2011 and since that time has grown, changed and become the much loved military children’s charity and vital support toolbox that now exists.
A small charity with a big heart doing the very best for all the children of our British Armed Forces
Christmas Smiles boxes for Little Troopers
Each year, Little Troopers runs a campaign called 'Christmas Smiles' to specifically support children who have a serving parent deployed overseas on military operations or exercise over the holidays.
Last year, 3,400 British Armed Forces personnel were deployed. Given that 79% of military personnel have children, that is a significant number of children who are separated from their parent each year.
Understandably, Christmas time is a particularly difficult time for military families to be apart and Little Troopers often hears from families who report that deployment at this time of year significantly impacts their child's wellbeing.
Last year, more than 2,500 families (with many families having multiple children) benefited from Little Troopers' Christmas Smiles.
This Christmas Little Troopers is looking at other ways that Christmas Smiles can deliver equal reach and impact, benefiting as many military children as possible.
Our aim is to create a Christmas Smiles Box. This would be packed with Christmas themed goodies, as well as including supporting resources from Little Troopers. The resources would help each child feel connected to their serving parent, as well as providing guided activities for children to complete at home to help them talk about and manage their feelings at this difficult time.
Our intention is that every penny raised in this Give as You Live fundraising campaign will go towards producing Little Troopers deployment resources for us to include in each Christmas Smiles box. These special resources help to keep children connected to their parents, even when they are miles apart, as well as encouraging children to talk about and better navigate their feelings during this challenging time.
In addition to your support, we are also speaking to potential sponsors and grant making organisations to provide funds to cover the cost of the box itself and the packing event.
We so appreciate your support this Christmas to bring smiles to those that need it.
