NSPCC Letter from Santa from 1p

girlneedshelp

James, Well written and thoughtful post. Thank you! I agree, that Save the Children is a far better organization that keeps the focus on the children.

littlewren

James_N wrote: »

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.

I think your post may be deleted too.

kirstysmudge88

Recieved my letter today! Absolutely delighted with it

bluetiger_grr

It might be worth mentioning that the childrens heart federation also have santas letters for £5. This is a fantastic charity that offers support to families of children with heart problems. some of those children have life limiting conditions which have no cure.. only pallative care and a life expectancy from birth-teens. (my daughter being one of them) The charity offers information, support and tries to arrange events where familys with heart children can meet. Heart families can feel isolated without this valuable support as some of the conditions are rare. The following link should give you more information.

http://www.chfed.org.uk/support_us/chf_winter_wonderland_2011/order_letters_from_santa

only_mee

Just got ours Daughters face was a picture!!!!

teabag29

How long do they take to be delivered? just ordered some for the sproglets

only_mee

Ordered the 10 November delivered today

kirstysmudge88

Yep same for me - ordered on the 10th and it arrived this morning

pinkclouds

James_N wrote: »

You need to remember in particular Orkney and Rochdale.

I'd forgotten the Orcadian fiasco. Thanks for the reminder.

System

Ordered 1st Decemeber damn all received and today was the final posting day, Emailed them last week no reply, emailed today don't hold out much hope of a reply to that either, they do say they can email you a high quality PDF but they don't reply to emails, not impressed with them.