This year we celebrate Childline's 35th anniversary, founded by Dame Esther Rantzen in 1986, promoting child protection. The NSPCC and Childline merged in 2006. Our Childline service is there to give young people a voice when no one else is listening. Whatever problems or dangers they're facing, Childline provides a place for them to turn to for support any time of day or night.

Our target is to raise £30,000 which covers the cost to run Childline for one day. Since April 2021 and January 2021 we have been able to hold over 170,000 Childline counselling sessions to children and young people. During the first spring lockdown, out of 17,000 counselling sessions delivered each month of the pandemic 50 children a day turned to Childline after suffering abuse or neglect.