It aims to find long-lasting solutions to the challenges they face – including poverty, abuse problems, offending, and other social issues.
The Christian charity works in partnership with local authorities, churches, charitable foundations and other supporters to bring about lasting change.
In the issue of December 1889 Spurgeon records that between October 15 and November 14 158 separate individuals, 275 collectors and 15 Orphanage choir appearances netted £797/12/1.
[11][12] Spurgeons was founded as a compassionate and distinctively Christian response to the plight of orphaned and vulnerable children in London.
Motivated by their faith, Charles Haddon Spurgeon and his associates sought to provide shelter, education and a loving environment for the city's most vulnerable children.
The feature which caused us to visit it with reference to the present inquiry is that it is based on the family system, there being eight separate houses, in each of which resides a group of about thirty boys under the special charge of a matron.
“The standard of health is high; there is no general contagious disease in the school, and infectious fevers, when they occur, are easily prevented from spreading by early isolation, in the convenient detached infirmary standing at the southeast end of the playground.
“In many respects, this excellent school affords no ground of comparison with pauper institutions; but the point to be specially noted is that the family system, even in the modified form here adopted, is stated to have been productive of undoubtedly good effects, not only as regards the formation of individual character, but also as conducting to a high standard of bodily health.
After the war the children briefly stayed at St David's as they were unable to return to Stockwell Orphanage due to the bomb damage.
Working with children in the early years of their life is the most effective way to ensure that those experiencing deprivation can still look forward to choices and opportunities.
Focusing on communities with high-levels of poverty, Spurgeons work with families at the pre-natal stage, through birth and up to the age of five.
In partnership with the police, schools, social workers and Youth Offending teams, Spurgeons supports families at times of crisis and provide one-to-one mentoring and befriending for children.
Spurgeons provide cost effective high quality planned programmes in order to meet the needs of troubled families.
They provide planned programmes to meet the complex needs of troubled families including key issues such as substance misuse, mental health and offending.
By establishing dialogue with children and young people most at risk of deprivation, Spurgeons can better understand them and better help their community to find solutions to the challenges they face.
These activities are designed to help people to deal with issues like inter-generational breakdown and anti-social behaviour and can help to build stronger families and healthier and more cohesive communities.
Children and young people being looked after by the local authority can benefit from the friendship and advice offered by a Spurgeons volunteer.