Welcome to Team Stork!

We’re always delighted to connect with those who want to support the valuable work we do, so thank you for your interest.

In case you don’t know much about us, we accept items which your children no longer need and pass them onto local families that need a helping hand. Our volunteers sort, safety check and prepare items so they are nicely presented before gifting them to the families who are referred to us from across Surrey and beyond – see your donation’s journey.  We’re one of the biggest baby banks in the UK and in 2023 we reached our ten year anniversary milestone. Stripey Stork has built a great reputation with local health and community professionals as being a service they can depend on. 

You may be surprised to hear that the last official report (2020/21) revealed that 22,377 children were living in poverty in Surrey, with three quarters of these being from families with at least one working adult. A shocking statistic which is predicted to be even worse than it was back then.

At Stripey Stork we believe that every child deserves the same start in life, so by supporting us you’re contributing to making this happen. We work with many different organisations and partners – such as social workers, women’s refuges, schools and hospitals – who help us to ensure the donations we receive reach the families that need them most. 

The stories we hear keep us motivated and drive us to help even more families, like:

• The little girl whose Mum wasn’t accepting her daughter’s party invitations because she was embarrassed about her not having a party dress to wear.
• The boy whose most treasured possession was a dressing gown we had gifted him because he’d never had anything like this to call his own. He had suffered chronic neglect so had been removed from the family home and was living at boarding school.
• The little boy living in our local refuge who had been told by his abusive Father that Santa wouldn’t be coming because he was a naughty boy.

Thank you for doing your part to help local families in our community.