Mitchell's Miracles joins Voucher Magpie: how your shopping can help families facing childhood cancer

Mitchell's Miracles has joined Voucher Magpie. From today, you can choose it as your cause, and whenever you shop through one of our codes or deals, we'll give 50% of the commission the shop pays us to the charity. You pay the same price and still get your discount.

Mitchell's Miracles is a small children's cancer charity in Upminster, on the East London and Essex border. It supports families across the UK whose children have neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer, with financial grants and emotional support, and it works to make more people aware of the early signs.

At a glance

• Who: Mitchell's Miracles, registered charity 1152726, based at Damyns Hall Aerodrome in Upminster.
• What it does: gives financial care grants and emotional support to families of children with neuroblastoma, and raises awareness of the condition.
• How to help through us: choose Mitchell's Miracles on its page, then shop as normal.
• What it costs you: nothing. The money comes out of our commission, not your basket.

A charity started in Mitchell's memory

In October 2010, Mitchell Huth's mother found a small lump on his head. Tests at their local hospital and then at Great Ormond Street Hospital showed stage 4 high-risk neuroblastoma. Over the next 18 months Mitchell had chemotherapy, stem cell rescue, major surgery and radiotherapy, and took part in an antibody treatment study. He died on 25 August 2012, aged seven.

His mother, Kristel, founded Mitchell's Miracles on 4 July 2013 so that other families facing the same diagnosis would have support. It was first registered as The Mitchell Huth Memorial Fund, and in September 2023 it took on the funds of another charity, Chelsea's Angels.

What Mitchell's Miracles does today

When a child is diagnosed, a parent often has to stop work while the bills keep coming. Families with a child under 18 who has neuroblastoma can apply for a financial grant. The charity lists the costs it can help with, including transport to and from hospital, hospital parking and congestion charges, food in hospital, household bills, rent or mortgage payments, lost income, clothing, furniture and bedding. Young Lives vs Cancer social workers can help families fill in the form.

Its emotional support service offers a listening ear, signposting to other help, welfare and benefits advice and bereavement counselling. There is also a bereavement grant for families who have lost a child.

Each Easter the team takes around 30 gift bags of arts and crafts to children on the oncology ward at Great Ormond Street, where Mitchell spent much of his treatment. Its Christmas Appeal sends an e-gift voucher to each eligible family it has supported that year. The Charity Commission register lists 4 trustees and 25 volunteers, and income of £103,886 for the year to 31 December 2024.

How your shopping helps: a worked example

Say you spend £50 a month on toys, gifts and cards at a shop that pays us 4% commission. That's £2.00 commission, and £1.00 of it goes to Mitchell's Miracles. Over a year, £12 comes from shopping you were doing anyway.

If 100 supporters did the same, Mitchell's Miracles would get £1,200 a year. Commission rates differ from shop to shop, and some shops pay more on certain products, so your own total may be higher or lower.

What you can do now

1. Choose Mitchell's Miracles. Go to its page on Voucher Magpie and tap Choose. You don't need an account; we remember it on your device.
2. Shop for presents through us. The Entertainer has free delivery on orders over £39.99 and free Click & Collect, ready in as little as 1 hour. The Works has 2 for £12 or 4 for £20 on gifts and activities, and 3 for £5 or 10 for £10 on kids' picture books. For cards, Moonpig has 30% off your first card order in the app.
3. Use it for everything else too. Clothes, holidays, broadband and food shopping all count, so Mitchell's Miracles gains whenever you shop through us.
4. Volunteer or fundraise. The charity's get involved page explains how to volunteer and lists challenges such as skydives, wing walks, Tough Mudder and Ultra Challenge walks. You can call its team on 01708 751466 to register your interest.
5. Donate. You can give online through the Charities Aid Foundation, or support its Easter and Christmas appeals.

Questions

Does choosing Mitchell's Miracles cost me anything?

No. The shop pays us a commission for sending it your order, and we give half of it to Mitchell's Miracles. Your price and your discount stay the same.

When does Mitchell's Miracles get the money?

A shop confirms a sale, usually 30 to 90 days after the order, once the return period has passed. We pay each cause its confirmed commission every quarter.

My child has neuroblastoma. Can we ask for help?

Yes. Families anywhere in the UK with a child under 18 diagnosed with neuroblastoma can apply. The charity's apply for support page has the forms, and its team is on 07799 252726, Monday to Friday.

Can I change my cause later?

Yes, any time, from any cause's page. Your future shopping then goes to the new cause.

Sources: Mitchell's Miracles: about us, Mitchell's story, apply for support, contact, Easter and Christmas appeals, get involved, Charity Commission: charity 1152726