Save the Children’s celebrity supporters read at its annual carol concert at St Paul’s Knightsbridge; last year’s readers included Tom Hiddleston and Helen Fielding.
Save the Children holds its annual Carol Concert at St Paul’s Knightsbridge on Friday 4 December 2026. Carols and festive music sit beside readings from the charity’s celebrity supporters.
Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton founded the Save the Children Fund in May 1919, at a packed public meeting in the Royal Albert Hall. Months earlier, Jebb had been arrested in Trafalgar Square for handing out leaflets about children starving under the post-war blockade.
She was found guilty, and the prosecuting counsel offered to pay her £5 fine himself. Through the Russian famine of 1921 and 1922, the fund’s daily meals helped keep 300,000 children alive.
The concert raises money for children in urgent need in the UK and around the world, the work the fund was set up to do.
This year’s readers are still to be announced. Last year’s included the actor Tom Hiddleston, the Bridget Jones’s Diary author Helen Fielding and the children’s author Dame Julia Donaldson.