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Warwickshire Receives Bags
Warwickshire Council joins the movement. Warwickshire Council has recently received a donation of Madlug Pack-away travel bags for their children and young people in care. This generous donation ensures that children in the care system will no longer have the risk...
Coventry Signs Pledge
Coventry City Council signs pledge and receives pack-away travel bags Coventry City Council has pledged its support for the "My Things Matter" campaign. The campaign is all about ensuring that no child in care moves with their belongings in black bin bags or...
My Things Matter
Partnering with NYAS to see an end of moving children in care with bin bags. Unfortunately, children in care have been moving home without the dignity and respect they deserve for far too long. My Things Matter is campaigning for improved support and respect for...
Bags Given in 2022
12,000 PACK-AWAY BAGS GIVEN 🎉. We are delighted to say that thanks to everyone involved in the movement, we gave over 12,000 pack-away bags to children in care across the UK in 2022 which has taken us to over 60,000 since we began. Our goal is to give 100,000 by...
Madlug Innovation Academy
Empowering Care Experienced Young People. We are excited to have delivered our first empowerment initiative called Madlug Innovation Academy. This was focused on empowering care experienced young people to learn transferable business skills through the setup and...
MACS (NI) Receives Bags
MACS - Supporting Children and Young People. We’ve recently sent 60 pack-away travel bags to MACS. They will be giving them to the young people who they work with. Andy (pictured above) is an integrated services worker based in Downpatrick. He is on the ground...
Bags for Care Leavers
120 pack-away travel bags to Suffolk County Council Care leaving team 👏. There are over 10,000 young people leave the UK care system every year. As a movement we want to see an end of bin bags for their belongings. Providing pack-away travel bags to Suffolk County...
Wigan Gets A Second Delivery
Wigan Council Gets More Bags. We received a repeat order for 120 bags from Wigan Council. The bags are for a short breaks and emergency placement children’s home. They also informed us of the impact from their previous order. “I work for Wigan Council in Greater...
Giving Update
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Your support ensures we can continue to provide giving bags to children and young people moving through care. Here's the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with 60 pack-away bags to send out to their young people. ...
Make A Difference Foster Carers
We recently sent 60 pack-away travel bags to foster carers, Rachel and Tom. As well as giving bags to the children and young people in their care, they will be distributing bags to other foster carers they are in contact with. "We have now been receiving bags...