The Child's Voice Appeal is an NSPCC appeal which launched in 2008 to raise £50 million to sustain and grow our helplines services, ChildLine and the NSPCC Helpline.

ChildLine

ChildLine is the NSPCC's free and confidential, 24-hour helpline for children in distress or danger. Trained volunteer counsellors comfort, advise, support and protect children and young people who may feel they have nowhere else to turn.

NSPCC Helpline

The NSPCC Helpline provides a voice for children who cannot speak for themselves. Not every child who needs help is able to call ChildLine - babies and young children, disabled children and children who are too afraid to call themselves need an adult to speak up for them. 

Why we launched the Appeal

Demand for our help is high, so we needed to expand the NSPCC Helpline to protect more children who were too young, vulnerable or unable to speak out for themselves. Children were plucking up the courage to phone ChildLine but weren't able to get through to a counsellor. We weren't online where children needed us to be for them.

At the time that we launched the Child's Voice Appeal, we were only able to answer two thirds of calls to ChildLine and three quarters of calls to the NSPCC Helpline.

Thanks to your help, ChildLine now provides online counselling as well as the phone service. Giving children a choice of ways to contact us makes them feel comfortable and in control of the conversation. We are now there for children however and whenever they need us.

Learn more about the Child's Voice Appeal achievements