Family Compass

02/12/2025

We welcomed the High Sheriff of Devon to Family Compass.

Many thanks for joining us on your trip across North Devon.

As always, grateful to .

26/11/2025

19/11/2025

As we enter the final part of 2025, we’re starting to look for our Charity of the Year for 2026. We’re hoping to support a charity that:

✨ Is based in North Devon
✨ Supports our local community
✨ Is important to our customers

The chosen charity will receive all proceeds from one milkshake flavour of their choice, and there will also be a donation point in the Marwood Milk shed for anyone who’d like to contribute. Information about the charity will be displayed on our board at Marwood Milk and we will also feature the charity on our social media and website.

Comment below or message us with the charity you think we should support and your reason why. We’ll then shortlist four charities, and you’ll be able to vote for your favourite. The charity with the most votes will become the Marwood Milk Charity of the Year for 2026!

19/11/2025

Please follow Marwood Milk and comment on the original post to nominate Family Compass!

And then go and try one of their milkshakes, they are absolutely delicious (we always divert our bike rides to grab one!)

As we enter the final part of 2025, we’re starting to look for our Charity of the Year for 2026. We’re hoping to support a charity that:

✨ Is based in North Devon
✨ Supports our local community
✨ Is important to our customers

The chosen charity will receive all proceeds from one milkshake flavour of their choice, and there will also be a donation point in the Marwood Milk shed for anyone who’d like to contribute. Information about the charity will be displayed on our board at Marwood Milk and we will also feature the charity on our social media and website.

Comment below or message us with the charity you think we should support and your reason why. We’ll then shortlist four charities, and you’ll be able to vote for your favourite. The charity with the most votes will become the Marwood Milk Charity of the Year for 2026!

16/11/2025

And we’re in the Sunday Mirror - full page exclusive…

With thanks to the wonderful Brian Cox OBE who joined our growing list of supporters including the wonderful Anna Maxwell Martin, Richard Hope, Peter Stefanovic, Michael Spicer Rachel Parris

We will never give up. Not until the government reverse the cuts, conduct an independent and robust consultation with the sector and families, and make the ASGSF a permanent, ring-fenced fund.

We love our children. And they deserve so much better from this government. The evidence is there, they do not need to wait. Government rhetoric is not the reality.

Sign our open letter here:

https://asgsfprotest.com/add-your-signature-an-open-letter-to-josh-macalister-mp-minister-for-children-and-families/

13/11/2025

We've got an award! Thank you NDVS, our team has been recognised.

13/11/2025

Yesterday, the campaign team met with the Minister for Children and Families, Josh MacAlister MP, for a hard-won forty five minute meeting. We could not have been more disappointed or concerned for the future of adopted and kinship children.

The cuts to the ASGSF were made without warning, evidence or consultation. The Minister offered no credible explanation for this, and showed no willingness to engage with the impact of those cuts.

It was confirmed that neither the Department for Education nor the Minister are tracking the consequences for children and families, despite the Education Select Committee advising them to do exactly that.

We presented clear evidence of the harm already being felt, the need for timely specialist therapy, and the economic case for maintaining appropriate support.

Despite warnings from the sector, experts and families, decisions continue to ignore the reality on the ground. The Minister did not outline any credible plan, nor did he set out the principles guiding future decisions.

By the end of the meeting it was plain that neither the ASGSF nor the therapeutic needs of adopted and kinship children are being treated as priorities.

We could not have been more disappointed or concerned for the future of adopted and kinship children.



Department for Education
Adoption UK
Kinship
Bridget Phillipson
Rachel Reeves

07/11/2025

Thank you to our Trustees and all the other Trustees out there that make a difference to so many charities. ⭐We couldn't do it without you 🌻