Our 150th Anniversary and New Brand

Let's Celebrate!

150 years of Action

Meet Fred and George in the picture above. Read a bit of our history below taken from our main website.

The first children taken in from the streets, rather than having to face the workhouse in 1869.

Stephenson couldn’t stand by and do nothing. Everything he did was 'in the service of the children'.

When Reverend Thomas Bowman Stephenson saw children living rough under the arches of Waterloo station in London, he decided he had to act. And his first action was to listen. 

He paid children the respect of hearing their stories, before working out the most practical way to help.   

A century and a half later - in our 150th year - the spirit of our founder remains our inspiration. We work hard to put the foundations in place for children to thrive. We take time to listen. When we see someone who needs help, we act.

Because of this, we decided to have celebrations in lots of the services, our children helped to make a sign that we will keep on display about our history and our updated vision, mission and values.

We had our celebration during our fun day - please find that on a later news update