For every new start. For every move.

NO CHILD SHOULD CARRY THEIR LIFE IN A BIN BAG.

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OUR MISSION

Comfort Cases UK is the only national charity dedicated to eliminating “bin-bagging” We exist to ensures no child entering or young person enters, moves within or leaves the care system carrying their belongings in a bin bag.

Working with frontline professionals across the UK, we provide both thoughtfully packed age-appropriate comfort cases and flat-packed Comfort Duffel XL bags where they are needed most.

Together, they offer dignity, protection, and emotional reassurance at every new start and every move.

But the message is more than just a bag of items.

It’s You Matter.

Your Belongings Matter.

WHAT WE DO

There are 107,000 children in care, with 36,000 new children entering every year.

1 in 10 will move placements in their first year.

80% of them still move with their belongings in bin bags, bags for life or with nothing.

We replace that moment of shame with belonging and dignity to inspire hope.

Comfort Cases UK provides children and young people with an age-appropriate bag of their own filled with new practical essentials like toiletries and pyjamas, and comfort items like blankets, teddies and books when they have been removed from everything and everyone they know. Filled with essential and comforting items such as, books, PJs, toiletries, soft toys, blankets and even SIM cards for older children.

We work in 48 of the 56 Local Authorities, through over 150 trusted frontline delivery partners, including fostering teams, police services, NHS settings, residential homes and leaving care services.

Partners place orders based on regional data

and distribute cases at points of crisis or placement moves.

Since 2021, we’ve supported more than 23,000 children aged 2-18.

We want to do more.

Our support is limited to 650 children per month, with a further 400 on our waiting list.

With your support we can keep reminding every child in care they matter.

"One young person told us the backpack made him feel 'happy' because now he owned something of his own"

Message from a teenage boy's social worker.

WHERE WE OPERATE

“Comfort Cases not only provides the practical belongings that can make a difference to a child, it provides a message of nurturing care; that ‘you matter’. And that is the essential message our children need and deserve. That is the message our children need to not only survive but to thrive.”

Elizabeth Utting, Forensic Psychologist