Our Vision, Mission & Values

Children Today's Vision is:

"a society in which young people with disability or illness are enabled to achieve their potential."

Our Mission is:

"to improve the quality of life of children and young people with disability or illness throughout the United Kingdom."

Children Today will achieve its Mission through a programme of services that will deliver the following:

• Funding equipment to meet need
• Provide a simple, supportive application process
• Raise awareness of issues affecting children and young people with disabilities and illness and those affecting their carers

• Seek appropriate partnerships to provide equipment and services

Ethos, Values and Inclusion Policy:

Our ethos is based on a fundamental belief that children and young people with disabilities should be enabled to achieve their potential. We do not judge what that potential might be.

The Trustees encourage everyone involved with Children Today, including employees, volunteers, donors and fundraisers to recognise that, as a small charity, we may not be able to support children in huge numbers but we can strive to achieve the highest levels of quality of service. One way in which we do this is through continuing and developing our support for children and their families by building long-term relationships.

To this end, we encourage applicants, usually parents, to come to us for funding and other services on a regular basis as their child’s needs change. Hopefully, this will continue as they grow and develop, gaining more independence and an improving quality of life that is also shared by all those around them. We will continue our support until their child reaches the age of 25 years.

At Children Today we strive to continually improve our policy of inclusion whilst still being aware of the constraints of our legal remit. In practice, this means our services are equally and fairly available to all - regardless of their condition or disability, learning difficulty, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religious or spiritual beliefs.

The Trustees acknowledge and subscribe to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and the UN Standard Rules on the Equalisation of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (1993).

A key function of our advocacy role is to promote ability not disability.