BT has been a supporter of ChildLine since its very beginning almost 22 years ago - and now through BT Yahoo!, you can help too.
We are committed to helping ChildLine long term, so if you’d like to be part of it, all you have to do is sign in to BT Yahoo! and use the BT Yahoo! search engine. When you complete a search† we’ll make a donation to ChildLine*. It’s as simple as that.
Make BT Yahoo! your Home Page and your default search method. The more you use BT Yahoo! search the more you could be helping.
ChildLine really does save children’s lives and keeps them from harm, especially during the night when, having been thrown out of home or having run away from a distressing situation, they can be most vulnerable.
A key area of development in 2008/09 for ChildLine is with its night service. At night the helpline has been answered by two paid counselors. Although ChildLine receives fewer calls at night, research shows that night time callers often ring in a state of crisis and need emergency help.
Since the advent of mobile phones they have also found that many more children call ChildLine later into the night, when they find it easier to call in private.
For many years lack of resources has prevented expansion of the night service with more counselors.
From this autumn ChildLine aims to share provision of the night service between bases in London, Birmingham and Glasgow. Each of the three ChildLine centers will employ three supervisors who will be part of a national rota providing a service throughout the night to all children and young people in the UK.
This will mean ChildLine will be able to respond to many more young people at night.
By searching with BT Yahoo! you could help ChildLine to answer more calls.
“When I get just one call in a night where I know I’ve saved a child’s life, it reminds me how important it is that there is someone there at the end of the phone for children at night, every night. It is really satisfying that we are available for young people to phone when there are very few other services that are free and accessible at night.
“ChildLine is a lifeline. It’s very rewarding. My background is in finance, and then I started volunteering at ChildLine and it acted as a catalyst to think about what else I could do.”
- Directed police to a call box where a young person said they were swallowing something so that they would die.
- Helped support a young girl who had been self harming after her relationship with her mother had deteriorated following her father’s death.
Don’t forget to use BT Yahoo! each time you search. By using the BT Yahoo! search you could help ChildLine have someone there to take calls from children who need help.
† Only applies to searches completed by clicking on a sponsored link.
* BT will donate 5% of online advertising revenue from this promotion to ChildLine, a service provided by the NSPCC, registered charity numbers 216401 and SC037717 via the NSPCC Trading Company Ltd. BT expects to donate at least £100,000 plus VAT to ChildLine.
** These examples draw on what children tell ChildLine, but do not describe specific cases.