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.

 


Upcoming Events

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Derbyshire Dales Hiking Trail - 9KM

Sep 13, 2026 - Sep 13, 2026

Bakewell DE45 1AH, UK

Derbyshire Dales Hiking Trail - 15KM

Sep 13, 2026 - Sep 13, 2026

Bakewell DE45 1AH, UK

Derbyshire Dales Hiking Trail - 21KM

Sep 13, 2026 - Sep 13, 2026

Bakewell DE45 1AH, UK

South Downs Hiking Trail - 17KM

Nov 7, 2026 - Nov 7, 2026

Goodwood Racecourse Selhurstpark Rd, Chichester PO18 0PS

South Downs Hiking Trail - 17KM

Nov 7, 2026 - Nov 7, 2026

Goodwood Racecourse Selhurstpark Rd, Chichester PO18 0PS

South Downs Hiking Trail - 12KM

Nov 7, 2026 - Nov 7, 2026

Goodwood Racecourse Selhurstpark Rd, Chichester PO18 0PS

South Downs Hiking Trail - 21KM

Nov 7, 2026 - Nov 7, 2026

Goodwood Racecourse Selhurstpark Rd, Chichester PO18 0PS

New Forest Brockenhurst Hiking Trail - 17KM

Nov 14, 2026 - Nov 14, 2026

Beaulieu Rd, Brockenhurst SO42 7QL, UK

New Forest Brockenhurst Hiking Trail - 10KM

Nov 14, 2026 - Nov 14, 2026

Beaulieu Rd, Brockenhurst SO42 7QL, UK