Siblings Together offers looked-after children the chance to spend the last Saturday of every month with their brothers and sisters at a specialist activity centre in north London.
The service is free to councils, open to all looked-after children and aims to offer an alternative to traditional contact centres.
Social workers are simply required to fill out a referral form to enrol a child onto the scheme, which offers activities such as canoeing, horse riding and ice skating.
Delma Hughes, director of Siblings Together, told CYP Now that she fears the initiative will lose its funding if councils fail to use the service.
"After running this for six months with volunteers we have only just received some small funding, which pays for the centre hire and costs, the activities and some admin," she said.
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