Coram, the UK's first children's charity launched in 1739, provides intensive practical and emotional support to more than 15,000 children, young people and their families each year, and reaches a further 800,000 school children through Coram Life Education's mobile health, drug and alcohol classrooms.The charity runs one of the country's most successful voluntary adoption services and pioneers creative therapies for young children, offers parenting support and provides supported housing for young people leaving care.