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I have chosen to do a skydive for The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.  All children deserve to grow up in a loving and happy environment where they are protected by their family/guardians.  Children depend on others to look after them so the fact that adults can abuse a child in any way is beyond belief to me.  A child may not know what to do or who to tell about their suffering and a lot of the time is too fearful anyway.  We need the NSPCC to help these vunerable children.  One of the services the NSPCC provide is Childline, in a newspaper quite a while ago now they actually printed some of the phone calls Childline had dealt with, reading the stories these children were telling brought me to tears, they included one which detailed a call that first was just silence and then a child whispering, a man shouting was heard in the background followed by a female scream, various loud bumps and thumps and then the phone went dead, thinking about god only knows what happened next makes me so, so sad.  A bit from their website......

Our inspiration and vision

Today, the NSPCC is inspired by a belief that we can make a difference for all children – by standing up for their rights, by listening to them, by helping them when they need us and by making them safe.

Our vision is ending cruelty to children in the UK. We believe cruelty is preventable and that through having an inspirational vision we will achieve much greater success for children.

Our approach

We believe our effectiveness is enhanced by a combined approach of services, policy and campaigning. Our direct services bring immediate help to children but on their own cannot achieve an end to cruelty and policy, influencing and campaigning work is much more forceful when informed by real experience gained from working with real children who have suffered abuse.

We will:

• Create and deliver services for children which are innovate, distinctive and demonstrate how to enhance child protection most effectively
• Provide advice and support to adults and professionals concerned about a child and if necessary take action to protect the child.
• Work with organisations which work with children to ensure they effectively protect children and challenge those who do not
• Campaign for changes to legislation, policy and practice to ensure they best protect children
• Persuade everyone to take personal responsibility for preventing cruelty to children
• Inform and educate the public to change attitudes and behaviours towards children
• Use our statutory powers as necessary to protect children