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The Forces Children’s Trust is a charity devoted to helping dependant children that have lost a parent whilst serving with the Armed Forces.
The FCT, by reason of its aims and size, has the flexibility and ability to make decisions and offer help as needed, with minimum fuss and consequent time-loss. The scope of its ability to help both an individual and a group of children in similar circumstances is illustrated by two recent cases. It provided special software for a dyslexic young boy who had sadly lost his father. The cost was beyond the mother in her present circumstances and not available from other sources. The immediate response by the FCT enabled the young boy to instantly improve his educational skills.
In contrast, the Trust funded and enabled a trip to London for a group of young children to see the hit-show ‘Mary Poppins'. This included an overnight stay as well as restaurant meals and other visits together with their mothers and escorts from the Army/RAF Widows Associations. In addition, a dream came true for many children and the trusts founder Denny Wise with a special trip to see 'The Sound Of Music' at the London Palladium, leading to an even more magical surprise with Noel Edmonds.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 April 2008 )
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 After a long day being dragged around the shops by my wife and kids whilst on Christmas leave I settled down to watch Noel Edmonds Christmas Presents show. All the way through the programme I noticed one good cause after another receiving well deserved surprises and gifts, the programme was close to the end and came to its last 10 minutes, it's then I saw ( to me ) the most well deserved cause of all - The Forces Children's Trust. After seeing the great job the charity does and being a serving soldier in the British Army and also having lost friends on operational duty who had kids and seeing the heartache and pain the loss of a father causes I felt I had no choice than to try and help this cause as much as I could, so I sat down and thought of a plan to put to my troop when they returned from leave to raise money.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 13 January 2008 )
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 On the 29th of July 2008, Six Paramotor Pilots start an epic flight for there chosen charities, ‘The Forces Children's Trust' & ‘The Regional Air Ambulances'. They are flying from Lands End to John O'Groats. They will cross 20 counties, over 700 miles and expect this flight to take 8 days of intense flying with most nights spent in tents at paramotorclub.org affiliate clubs along the route. They will have to navigate around major airways such as Plymouth, Exeter, Bristol, Birmingham, and East Midlands (not to mention the military Fighter Jet dog fighting in Scotland!)
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 08 April 2008 )
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 A dream came true for many children and the trust founder Denny Wise in the past few weeks. A special trip to the ‘The Sound Of Music’ at the London Palladium led to an even more magical surprise! NEW! Read more and watch the Video.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 19 January 2008 )
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 At 5:30 on the 12th of May five canoeist arrived in the Port of Larne – Northern Ireland after kayaking the 27 miles from Portpatrick on the Scottish coast. Eight and a half hours earlier we had been waved off by our supporters from a windswept beach with dire warnings of being run over by the SeaCat ringing in our ears.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 20 December 2007 )
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"To help a child is an honour"
