# GOOD Agency Childhood Trust campaign to launch as photography exhibition

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/01/16/good-agency-childhood-trust-campaign-launch-photography-exhibition/
- Published: 2019-01-16T09:00:19+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**A campaign created as part of a Giving Tuesday offer by GOOD Agency for The Childhood
Trust launches as a photography exhibition next month.**

The campaign [started two years ago](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/11/18/good-agency-staff-donate-skills-mark-givingtuesday/)
as part of Giving Tuesday where [GOOD Agency](https://www.goodagency.co.uk/) offered
its creative services to a charity that might not normally be able to work with 
it due to budget and size. [The Childhood Trust](http://www.childhoodtrust.org.uk/)
was looking for a way to reach an affluent, connected audience with something small,
focused and life changing, that would be a catalyst for meaningful conversations
about poverty and injustice in some of London’s wealthiest areas.

GOOD Agency’s original concept was to create and publish a photographic documentary
book that took a ‘behind the doors’ look at the lives of children living in poverty,
with a particular focus on the child’s bedroom. This has now grown in size to become
an exhibition as well, showing at the Foundling Museum.

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![9 month old Adam sleeps with mum Emily and dad Martin in the living room. With
sister Patricia, 10, brothers Bradley 6 and Harry 3, the family of six also eat 
here as there is nowhere to sit](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2019/01/Embargo-
Katie-Wilson-Bedrooms-of-London-Adam-2017-copyright-Katie-Wilson-jpeg.webp)

Photo: 9 month old Adam sleeps with mum Emily and dad Martin in the living room.
With sister Patricia, 10, brothers Bradley 6 and Harry 3, the family of six also
eat here as there is nowhere to sit. Copyright 2017 Katie Wilson.

Bedrooms of London by photographer Katie Wilson shows the often unseen reality 
of home life for the 700,000 children currently living below the poverty line in
London. It focuses on the spaces where children are sleeping, with the photographs
shown alongside first-hand narratives from families.

The book of photographs, alongside a report on the housing crisis and its impact
on children in London, will also be sent to key policy makers, highlighting the 
challenges facing children and their families.

Louis Cochrane, lead designer on the project, said:

> “As an agency we work with some of the most well-known names in the charity sector
> and have developed some of the biggest campaigns both nationally and internationally.
> But working on Bedrooms of London has given us the chance to help people that 
> live in our city, our neighbours, and their stories have stayed with us. It has
> been a truly collaborative experience with the families, they have trusted us 
> to tell their stories honestly, and do what we can to ensure that the project 
> leads to change.”

 

![Bedrooms of London book, by Katie Wilson](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/
2019/01/Bedrooms-of-London-Spread-2-Visual.webp)

Bedrooms of London book, by Katie Wilson

 

Photos by Katie Wilson. Main image: Antousha, 5, Gabriela, 4 and Moses 1, share 
a two bedroom flat with their parents, Beatrice and George. The family receives 
benefits but neither George nor Beatrice, a trained nurse, can work. They are in
debt from court fees and depend on charity support.

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