Celebrity supporters

Four-time Paralympic swimming champion Ellie Simmonds OBE currently holds an impressive ten world records. She won her first Paralympic medal aged just 13 and received an MBE at 14! We think she's pretty awesome and a fantastic role model for children the world over. We're thrilled that she's supporting our Christmas appeal to help protect vulnerable homeless children around the world. 

ActionAid ambassador, actress Emilia Fox travelled to Ethiopia, where over a quarter of the population live below the poverty line. Her diary highlights how helping women and children in extreme poverty helps to change their lives.

Award-winning actress and singer Kerry Ellis is best known as the star of West End and Broadway musicals 'Les Miserables' and 'Wicked'. She’s also mother to a baby boy. She took a break from rehearsing for her latest show to tell us about the challenges of balancing work and home.

We’ve loved Isy Suttie ever since she captured our hearts as Dobby in the dark TV sitcom 'Peep Show'. Since then she’s made us laugh and won awards as a stand-up comedian and for her radio show 'Pearl and Dave'. Now she’s trying her hand at being a mum, to her baby girl Beti. We asked Isy some searching questions about motherhood. She answered them. Sort of.

As well as being one of the UK's leading broadcasters and an award-winning TV presenter, Gabby Logan is a devoted mother of two. Gabby has talked in the past about outdated attitudes towards women on television, and just this week named and shamed a troll on Twitter who told her to 'get back to the kitchen'. We asked her what advice she would give to other working mums.

As a long-term supporter of ActionAid, British actor and comedian Hugh Dennis recently visited the five-year-old girl he sponsors in Myanmar. Having been ruled by a repressive military regime for over 50 years, Myanmar, also known as Burma, is one of the least developed countries in the world. Its people are extremely poor: one in four people live below the poverty line and only 50% of children finish primary school.

But now that the country has opened its borders, there's hope. Since 2012 we've been one of the few charities helping children through sponsorship in Myanmar. Here, Hugh Dennis shares his experience of meeting the little girl he sponsors and witnessing how his money is helping transform the future of her entire community.