The Isle of Wight Children’s Fund

The Isle of Wight Children’s Fund supports services to provide a responsive approach to meeting needs and developing good practice for services for children and young people at risk of social exclusion.

Our purpose is to fund services around what children and young people have said is important to them to tackle the barriers and disadvantages they face and which helps them to realise their potential.

The key messages emerging from the work of the Children’s Fund across the country including here on the Isle of Wight are that it:

We welcome the Chancellor’s commitment to continue the Children’s Fund to 2008 ‘to allow a smooth transition to new Children’s Trusts, which will be focused on preventative work and developed and delivered with the full engagement of the voluntary sector.’