About Us

Lost Chances represents the adult children of former SubPostmasters caught up in the Post Office Scandal, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history. We are a group with a mission, to redress the chances that were taken from us when we were growing up, by the actions of Post Office and Fujitsu.

Lost Chances was launched in March 2024, soon after Katie Downey attended the Business and Trade Select Committee hearing at the House of Commons, where her father, a former subpostmater, gave evidence.

Under the current law, children like us are regarded as ‘secondary victims’. Although we were caught up in the Post Office Horizon scandal, we do not, as individuals, qualify for compensation. So, for example, educational opportunities lost because our parents were bankrupted meant in some cases we had to leave school early to work and help out and were unable to finish A levels or go to college. Such lost chances are not included as claimable in any compensation package that our parents may apply for.