Parents And Children Together (PACT) UK

What Parents And Children Together (PACT) UK does

Parents And Children Together (PACT) is a registered UK charity (Charity No. 285214; Company No. 1636098), founded in 1911 by Bishop Francis Paget of Oxford as the Diocesan Council for Prevention and Rescue Work and operating today under the legal name Oxford Diocesan Council for Social Work Incorporated. Headquartered in Reading, Berkshire, with 139 employees, PACT delivers adoption services and trauma-informed support across southern and central England through offices in Reading, Brighton, London (Vauxhall), and Milton Keynes, plus Devon-based teams.

The organisation's core offering is its Ofsted-rated 'Outstanding' adoption service (four consecutive outstanding ratings in 2014, 2017, 2023 and March 2026), placing children with adoptive families and supporting families for life. This is wrapped by a portfolio of post-adoption therapeutic services: FACTS (therapeutic support for children affected by early trauma), the Strengthening Families Team, Adopter Champions peer support, an Education Support Service, and CATCH (Children And Trauma Community Hub) — an online platform launched in 2017 as The Adopter Hub and rebranded in 2022 to serve a wider trauma-affected audience. PACT also operates two community programmes: Alana House, supporting women facing multiple disadvantages (domestic abuse, homelessness, debt, criminal-justice involvement), and Bounce Back 4 Kids (BB4K), a therapeutic recovery programme for children affected by domestic abuse.

PACT is a non-profit funded primarily by charitable donations (one-off, 'Friends of PACT' monthly giving, Gifts in Wills via Octopus Legacy), institutional grants (National Lottery Community Fund, BBC Children in Need, City Bridge Foundation, Berkshire Community Foundation, Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner, Reading Borough Council), corporate partnerships (Nationwide Building Society, Berkshire Freemasons), community lotteries (Reading, West Berkshire, Wokingham Borough), challenge events (Marathon in May, London Marathon), and an online shop selling virtual gifts, art prints, and the Alana House recipe book. All core services are provided free of charge to beneficiaries; the 2025-2026 impact metrics include 81 children placed with 65 families, 218 women supported through Alana House, 134 children supported through BB4K, 192 families through FACTS, 90 through Strengthening Families, and 61 through Adopter Champions.

Name

Parents And Children Together (PACT) UK

Legal name

Oxford Diocesan Council for Social Work Incorporated

Website

https://pactcharity.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1911

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Parents And Children Together (PACT) is a UK charity founded in 1911 that provides Ofsted-rated 'Outstanding' adoption services and trauma-informed therapeutic and community programmes (including Alana House and Bounce Back 4 Kids) free of charge to beneficiaries across southern and central England.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Adoption and Trauma Support Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411), Child and Youth Services (624110), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Child Protection & Child Rights (BPAGABAG)

Keywords

• Adoption services
• Children's charity
• Trauma support
• Domestic abuse recovery
• Therapeutic support

Headquarters

HQ city

Reading

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Donations and Fundraising: PACT relies primarily on charitable donations from individuals, including one-off donations, regular monthly giving through 'Friends of PACT', and fundraising events such as Marathon in May, London Marathon runners, and corporate partnerships.
2. Community Lotteries: PACT benefits from community lottery schemes including Reading Community Lottery, West Berkshire Lottery, and Wokingham Borough Community Lottery where tickets cost £1 per week.
3. Shop Sales: PACT sells virtual gifts, art prints created by Alana House women, and recipe books in their shop with proceeds supporting their work.
4. Gifts in Wills: PACT receives legacy gifts through wills, partnered with Octopus Legacy to facilitate free will writing for supporters.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

PACT is a UK charity that finds permanent adoptive families for children in care and delivers lifelong post-adoption support, alongside therapeutic trauma recovery programmes for children affected by domestic abuse and a women's community programme for women facing multiple disadvantages. It supplements its in-person services with the CATCH online trauma support hub and an online shop that channels proceeds back into charitable work.

Product overview

PACT (Parents And Children Together) is an adoption and trauma support charity offering a coordinated portfolio of services. The core service is its Ofsted-rated outstanding adoption service, which places children with adoptive families and provides lifelong support. Supporting this are therapeutic services including FACTS (therapeutic support for trauma), the Strengthening Families Team, Adopter Champions (peer support), and an Education Support Service. PACT also operates CATCH (Children And Trauma Community Hub), an online support platform formerly known as The Adopter Hub. Community projects include Alana House (women's community programme) and Bounce Back 4 Kids (domestic abuse recovery programme for children). The organization provides these services across southern and central England with offices in Reading, London, Brighton, and Milton Keynes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CATCH: Children And Trauma Community Hub - PACT's online support platform for the adoption community providing trauma-informed resources
• Alana House
• Bounce Back 4 Kids (BB4K)
• FACTS
• Strengthening Families Team
• Adopter Champions

Products and services

• Adoption Services End-to-end adoption service finding permanent adoptive families for children in care and providing lifelong support, including enquiry handling, preparation training, matching, placement and post-adoption therapeutic and peer support across southern and central England.
• CATCH - Children And Trauma Community Hub Online trauma-informed support hub providing digital resources, guidance and community support for adoptive families and professionals affected by adoption and childhood trauma.
• FACTS Therapeutic Support Service Specialist therapeutic service providing one-to-one and group support to help children overcome difficulties resulting from early trauma and neglect, supporting 192 families in the reported period.
• Strengthening Families Team Team of therapeutically trained social workers providing specialist support to adoptive families, serving 90 families in the reported period.
• Adopter Champions Peer support service led by 'experts by experience' providing peer mentoring and support to adoptive families, assisting 61 families in the reported period.
• Education Support Service Specialist service supporting the educational needs of adopted children and their families, including guidance on navigating the education system.
• Alana House Women's Community Programme Trauma-informed holistic programme supporting and empowering women facing multiple disadvantages including domestic abuse, homelessness, debt, addiction and criminal justice involvement through one-to-one key work, counselling, group work and practical assistance.
• Bounce Back 4 Kids (BB4K) Domestic abuse recovery programme using therapeutic techniques including play therapy, one-to-one support and parent groups to help children and families heal from the impact of domestic abuse, directly supporting 134 children in the reported period.
• Fostering Service Fostering service providing foster families for children who cannot live with their birth families, sitting alongside PACT's adoption services.

Quantifiable outcome

• 81 children placed in loving, permanent adoptive families; 218 women supported through Alana House; 134 children directly supported by BB4K in 2025-2026
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Buckinghamshire Adoption PartnershipcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFormal partnership arrangement for delivering adoption services in Buckinghamshire, integrated into PACT's service offerings.
• Diocese of OxfordcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPACT retains its historical affiliation with the Diocese of Oxford, having been founded by the Bishop of Oxford in 1911 to address vulnerabilities of families in the Oxford Diocesan area.
• Home for GoodcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPACT partners with Home for Good to encourage Christian families and church attendees to consider adoption, ensuring faith and respect are central to the process.
• Octopus LegacyminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPACT partnered with Octopus Legacy to offer free will-writing services to supporters, making the process simple, secure, and free for those wishing to leave legacy gifts to PACT.
• Reading Community LotteryminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorWeekly lottery raising money for good causes in Reading area with PACT as a supported cause.
• West Berkshire LotteryminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorWeekly lottery with tickets at £1 per week supporting good causes in West Berkshire including PACT, with top prize of £250,000.
• Wokingham Borough Community LotteryminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorWeekly lottery supporting causes in Wokingham Borough with PACT as a supported charity, top prize of £25,000.
• Give as You LiveminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFree shopping donation service enabling supporters to raise money for PACT when shopping online at over 4,500 retailers.
• Charity ChallengeminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAdventure challenge events platform where participants can select PACT as their fundraising charity.
• Anonymous Coffee and Girls Gotta RunminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborators who helped create Alana House coffee product in 2021.
• Stowe Family LawminorOthersFamily law firm supporter of PACT's adoption work.
• Boardman Hawkins & Osborne LLPminorOthersAccountancy firm providing pro bono support.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• The Children's Society: National UK charity supporting vulnerable children including those affected by exploitation, abuse, and trauma. Comparable mission in child welfare and trauma recovery; also a peer in BBC Children in Need funding space.
• Barnardo's: One of the UK's largest children's charities, running adoption, fostering, child sexual exploitation, and domestic abuse recovery services at much greater scale than PACT. Comparable mission and broad overlap in adoption and vulnerable-family services.
• Family Action: Long-established UK family support charity delivering parenting programmes, mental health services, and support for disadvantaged families. Comparable in family-strengthening and early-intervention space overlapping with Strengthening Families team.
• NSPCC: UK's leading child protection charity; PACT's Board Chair Wes Cuell was previously NSPCC Director of Services for Children and Young People. Overlap on child welfare, safeguarding, and therapeutic child support.

Direct peers

• Home for Good: UK charity encouraging Christian families to consider adoption and fostering; explicit PACT partner (referenced as Home for Good in the data). Comparable in adoption recruitment and faith-aligned family engagement.
• Coram: Long-established UK children's charity operating CoramBAAF (adoption/fostering services) and multiple adoption-related programmes. Comparable to PACT in adoption services, post-adoption support, and child welfare mission.
• Adoption UK: UK-wide membership charity supporting adopted people, adopters, and professionals through peer networks, training, and advocacy. Comparable as a complementary post-adoption and adoption-awareness peer serving overlapping adopter populations.
• PAC-UK (Post Adoption Centre): UK charity specializing in post-adoption support, therapeutic services, and adoption search/reunion. Direct peer in the therapeutic and lifelong post-adoption support space that PACT's FACTS, Strengthening Families, and CATCH operate in.
• TACT (The Adoption Charity): One of the UK's largest voluntary adoption agencies, providing adoption and post-adoption support across multiple regions. Most directly comparable to PACT given overlapping adoption services, therapeutic support, and Ofsted-regulated operations.

Emerging players

• Refuge: UK's largest specialist domestic-abuse charity supporting women and children. Comparable to PACT's Alana House and BB4K programmes in serving women facing domestic abuse and the children affected by it.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

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