Reach
From its creation in 1963, the National Children's Bureau has
grown into the largest multi-agency group working with and for the
benefit of children and young people in the UK.
Through our networks, NCB's has access to over 6,000 local
authorities, children's service providers, academic bodies, schools
and health organisations and through them to more than 100,000
disadvantaged children and young people. NCB's links with local
voluntary and third sector direct delivery organisations ensures
our work is firmly grounded in the reality of providing and
replicating services and keeps our focus on children and young
people. NCB operates in every county of England and Northern
Ireland and convenes the "4 Nations" partnership with sister
organisations in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, which
provides a UK-wide policy and practice perspective to its projects
and programmes and a UK basis for benchmarking and
dissemination.
NCB hosts an enormous range of semi-autonomous programmes,
partnerships, fora and councils, all operating under our statutory
and charitable registrations and currently numbering 33.
Their work is as diverse as the children they work with and their
interest and expertise covers:
- every issuefrom health, well-being and play, to youth justice,
education, sex and children in care;
- every agefrom early years to post-teen; and
- every conditionfrom disability and special needs to poverty and
social exclusion.
NCB is not one organisation, but a bundle of organisations of
varying sizes and ancestry. Some old and well established,
some young and highly innovative. This represents a truly
unique opportunity for the social investor seeking to maximise
their impact and diversify their risk and invest in a portfolio of
activities from the proven and dependable to the innovative and
ground-breaking. The diversity of our portfolio means that
whatever the need, there is a high probability that NCB either has
or is developing a programme to meet it.
