Spurgeon's

Spurgeons is a large national children's charity in the United Kingdom, working with vulnerable families, children and young people. It is based in Rushden, with several offices in the UK, and is a registered charity.

Spurgeons currently delivers more than 81 projects reaching over 37,000 children and 78,000 parents or carers every year. 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.

Spurgeons was founded in 1867 by Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Charles Haddon Spurgeon was England’s best known Baptist preacher. At 20 years old he became the pastor of London’s famed New Park Street Church.

Spurgeons charity was founded in 1867 when Anne Hillyard donated £20,000 to Charles Spurgeon, to be used to open an orphanage for fatherless boys.

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 original orphanage, in , opened in 1869 for fatherless boys until ten years later when girls were welcomed to the orphanage. At this point there were 500 children living there.

In 1892 Charles Spurgeon died, however his work continued to improve the lives of the children in the orphanage.

In 1939, when the Second World War was announced, the children living in the Stockwell orphanage had to be evacuated. The majority of the children were moved to St David’s in Reigate, Surrey.

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.

In 1951 the home in Birchington, Kent was opened and became the new children’s home for Spurgeons. By 1953 all of the children had been relocated to the new home.

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