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Core Funding

Why Core Funding Matters

and why its the most powerful way to support MCF

Technology-Assisted Child Sexual Abuse (TACSA) is rising rapidly, and many harmed children do not disclose, or only speak out years later. When they do, support systems are often unprepared, inconsistent, and even retraumatising. Specialist TACSA recovery support is essential - yet no national service exists to meet this need. MCF fills this critical gap as the UK’s only charity dedicated solely to TACSA, combining direct recovery support with advocacy and system change.

Core funding is what makes this possible. It sustains our specialist practitioners, strengthens safeguarding and governance, maintains our training programmes, and ensures lived experience continues to shape practice and policy. It’s the most powerful way to support MCF, because it strengthens the entire system around a child — making every intervention, every training session, and every recovery journey possible.

In short, core funding keeps children safe, practitioners skilled, and our national TACSA response strong.

Direct Support

What Core Funding Supports

Direct Child & Family Support. Our practitioners work directly with children harmed online, offering trauma-informed, recovery-focused support tailored to each young person’s needs.

Specialist Training. Core funding sustains training that equips police officers, social workers, teachers, and all other frontline staff who work with children, with the specialist skills and knowledge needed to respond to TACSA with confidence and care. 

Survivor-Led Practice & Insight. We centre lived experience in the heart of everything we do - from developing resources to shaping national policy.

Research, Policy & System Influence.  We advocate for better responses to TACSA across government, agencies and the technology sector.

Our Core Funding Requirement

We are seeking multi-year commitments, ideally over three years, from philanthropic partners. Multi-year core funding gives us the stability to plan confidently, retain specialist staff, and respond quickly to emerging harms. To keep our core work running safely and sustainably, we require £500,000 per year in core funding.

Any unrestricted support above our annual core requirement will be automatically directed to our Innovation and Impact work - developing and scaling new digital tools and survivor-led initiatives that extend our reach even further.

If you would like to discuss a potential core funding partnership, or have questions about how your support could be used, please get in touch with us.

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Trustees Report and Financial Statements

We are committed to full transparency in how we steward the resources entrusted to us. Our most recent Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements (year ending 31 March 2025) provide an overview of our activities, income, expenditure and impact over the past year. You can access the latest report below.

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