NSPCC Letter from Santa from 1p

girlneedshelp

'You mean apart from providing a helpline where people can report child abuse and help children get out of desparate circumstances. A concerned person in our area did just that and the "parents" have just been jailed for 5 years for appalling child cruelty.'

And it's a shame that so much good work is stained and tarnished by their left winged political agenda to prosecute parents that use reasonable discipline and good judgment. The money that is sent to them should be used to help children period.... and not to pursue social reegineering and a political agenda.

nazzie

ordered for my little one, thank you for posting - great charity anf worth the donations at any time of the year

jumpingjackd

cs73 wrote: »

Yeah, i agree!!!....... I donated 2p!

Wow, how generous!!!! u must be very proud.
Used properly, both the site and cared for children would benefit from this.
Please give as much as you can afford. All children deserve a life, not just those who are delighted with a letter from santa.

Be_Nice

It's very easy to judge but I think most people will donate what they can afford, whether that be the more or less than the suggested £5. hopefully those that give a little more will balance out with those that give less.

I expect the charity keeps the donation amount at your discretion so as not to make the letters out of reach of children/families who are in real poverty, who couldn't afford the suggested donation so give what they can afford, these kids probably won't be getting shiny new bikes or leap pads and a letter from Santa might be just the most special thing they get.

V_tricky

Regardless of the value of the donation, it's an interesting way of harvesting data to be added onto future fundraising mailing lists (which of course is valuable in it's own right).

MooBaah

quintwins wrote: »

slightly off topic but is there anyway to get your kids letters they post to santa back?

I would photocopy the letter and either send the original to Santa and keep the copy or vice versa. I would then put it in a full to bursting shoe box with their previous years letters, teeth that were sent to the tooth fairy, locks of hair and hospital baby tags, etc

loobylou232

MooBaah wrote: »

I would photocopy the letter and either send the original to Santa and keep the copy or vice versa. I would then put it in a full to bursting shoe box with their previous years letters, teeth that were sent to the tooth fairy, locks of hair and hospital baby tags, etc

Hee hee! Have you been looking in my loft?;)

mcb2690

Thanks for posting. Look forward to seeing their faces when they arrive! :j

James_N

Please beware of supporting the NSPCC. It is not the lily-white organisation it pretends to be. It is responsible for some terrible abuse itself, and the misandry it spouts to gain income is reprehensible. You need to remember in particular Orkney and Rochdale.

This piece from the Guardian sums it up better than I can:

Richard Ingrams writing in The Guardian.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has discovered that the public is insufficiently aware of the problems of child abuse. This, despite the fact that there are nightly news bulletins and documentaries on the subject and that no contemporary soap opera, play or police drama is nowadays complete without some reference to the topic. Undeterred, the NSPCC is currently running a series of 'shock' commercials on ITV to alert everyone to the problem.

Child abuse is a serious issue but, thanks to the media and miscellaneous campaigners, it has become a clich! of the entertainment industry.

Far from alerting people, the tasteless, vulgar NSPCC commercials, produced at enormous expense by Saatchi and Saatchi, will merely add to the unhelpful hysteria which clouds the issue - in addition to disturbing suggestible viewers, like all such attempts to shock.

Along with all do-gooding charities campaigning on behalf of animals, children and wildlife, the activities and pronouncements of the NSPCC are seldom questioned. Yet their record in the child-abuse field is by no means a distinguished one. Experts have queried their statistics on the amount of child abuse which they claim is committed. And few did more than the NSPCC to foment the hysteria over the satanic abuse scare when it came to this country from America in 1990. NSPCC officials were active in supporting the wildest stories which at that time went around, notably in the Orkneys (where several children were forcibly removed from their parents) and also in Nottingham, where the NSPCC, along with council social workers, encouraged children to indulge in wild fantasies about witchcraft and cannibalism. Yet, after a number of exhaustive enquiries by the police and other professionals, not a single scrap of evidence was ever produced to support these stories.

If you want to support an 'untainted" children's organisation, may I suggest Save the Children. With its international structure and open charter, it is less likely to suffer from the self-perpetuating corruption at the heart of the NSPCC.

loobylou232

^^ Thanks for that piece. It can be hard to remain objective and rather than general mud slinging it's nice to see an opinion backed up with real examples of why that opinion is held. Makes a change and I will bear that in mind in the future.