Comfort Cases UK
No Child Should Carry their Life in a Bin Bag
Comfort Cases UK ensures no child entering or moving within the care system carries their belongings in a bin bag. Working with frontline professionals across the UK, we provide both thoughtfully packed 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, while we advocate for more compassionate, trauma-informed practice.
Every year, 36,000 new children enter the care system.
That’s one child every 15 minutes.
These children often move homes multiple times a year and under emergency circumstances, with a little more than the clothes on their backs.
Comfort Cases UK provides children entering the care system with a bag of bespoke belongings (comfort cases) they can call their own 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.
Four out of five children report their treasured belongings are shoved in bin bags when they move from home to home – risking precious memories being lost or damaged. Comfort Cases are invaluable and offer far more than just the items inside – they offer a sense of belonging, safety and security to children when everything is crumbling around them.
Comfort Cases UK volunteers fill the rucksacks with essential items of comfort and necessity and the charity works with over 100 local authority teams, organisations, NHS trusts and residential care homes to distribute the rucksacks to those in need within local communities.
How Your Support Helps
Every month, we provide 400 Comfort Cases to referral partners and 250 Comfort XL Duffels. We support 1050 children and young people every month.
£37.42 buys a comfort case filled with age appropriate essential and comfort items.
£10.00 buys a Comfort XL Duffel.
Your fundraising will make sure we never have to say no.
Our aim is to provide 1000 Comfort Cases and 500 Comfort XL Duffels every month.
Every event you join and every penny raised helps us get one step further towards that target.
Thank you, from Sarah & Sammi.
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Check out these featured events from this charity
Birmingham Running Festival 5K - September 2026
CDF 10k
Birmingham Running Festival 10K - September 2026
Birmingham Running Festival Half Marathon - September 2026
Run Cheltenham Half Marathon
Great South Run
Amsterdam Half Marathon
Amsterdam Marathon (Area A) - Additional
Birmingham Running Festival 5K - November 2026
Birmingham Running Festival 10K - November 2026
Birmingham Running Festival Half Marathon - November 2026
Run Alton Towers 5k - Saturday
All Events
What's coming up in the run for charity events calendar? It’s never too late to join one of these great events.
Inflatable 5K - Coventry - 2.5K
Inflatable 5K - Coventry - 5K
Inflatable 5K - Coventry - 10K
Inflatable 5K - Coventry - 15K
Maidenhead Trail Run 5K
Hillsborough Castle & Gardens Running Festival 10K
Maidenhead Trail Run 10K
Hillsborough Castle & Gardens Running Festival Half Marathon
Run Dorney Lake Half Marathon - July
Maidenhead Trail Run Half Marathon
Chase the Sun Battersea 5K - July