Barnados

Barnados

Barnardo’s believes in children regardless of their circumstances, gender, race, disability or behaviour.

 

Barnardos Adverts:

Violence

Shocking

Turn Around

Barnardos Articles:

ASA chief Guy Parker Predicts Record Year for Complaints
What is ASA?
Advertising Standards Authority.
The ASA is the UK's independent regulator of advertising across all media, including marketing on websites. They work to ensure ads are legal, decent, honest, and truthful by applying the advertising codes.

Lancaster Schoolgirl's Song Award attempt in aid of Barnados
http://www.young-songwriters.co.uk/
Barnardos have a competition which is to raise the awareness of young talent and to encourage them to use their talents to help other children have a better life.

Barnardo's response to DfE Pupil Absence Statistics

Louise Bamfield, assistant director of policy and research at Barnardo’s said, "Today’s figures are a sign that the current school system is failing somewhere."

 What is DfE?

The Department for Education.

The Department for Education is responsible for education and children’s services.

Barnardo's Shock Ads Spark 330 Complaints
A shocking advertising campaign for Barnardo's that showed a cockroach crawling out of a newborn baby's mouth is set to become the most controversial of the year, prompting a massive 330 complaints to the advertising watchdog.

Cancer Research

Cancer Research


A basic research into cancer in order to identify causes and develop strategies for prevention, diagnosis, treatments and cure

Cancer Research Adverts:

Fields Of Gold

Impact Cancer Has

Race for Life

Giving News

The Swim - Richard Branson
Richard Branson and Ronan Keating are taking on the ultimate challenge by captaining at team to swim across the Irish Sea to raise £1million for CancerResearch.

Cancer Research Articles:

Spider-Man producer Laura Ziskin dies aged 61.
Laura Ziskin, producer of Pretty Woman and the Spider-Man films, has died of cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 61.

Queens University award for Frog Skin Cancer Research.
Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have won an award for work on frog and toad skins which could lead to treatments for over 70 major diseases.

Jersey Race for Life raises £100K for Cancer Research.
Almost 1,300 women took part in a three-mile (5km) walk, jog or run from St Helier to Bel Royal on Sunday.

Brisk walks fight Prostate Cancer.
Based on their observations, men who power walk for at least three hours a week can halve how much their cancer will grow and spread over the next couple of years.

Gay Men 'Report Higher Cancer Rate than Straight Men'.
The study of more than 120,000 people in California has led to calls for more specialist support. Lesbians and bisexual women also had poorer health after cancer than heterosexuals, according to research published in the journal Cancer.

NSPCC

 

NSPCC
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

A United Kingdom charity campaigning and working in child protection

NSPCC Adverts:

Must Stop

They are just Children

Bullying

Neglect

Celebrities
The first advert from the NSPCC's Someone to turn to Campaign from 2004. It features a range of celebrities, including Mel C, Graham Norton, Gary Linekar, Alan Hansen and Sara Cox standing around in complete silence, to highlight the fact that many abused children never talk about the abuse they suffer.

NSPCC Articles:

Child Sex Abuse has risen to 64 times a day.
More than 23,000 offences - including rape, incest and gross indecency - were recorded by police in 2009-10, an 8% increase on 2008-9, the charity said.

Call for Action Against Bullying
The NSPCC on the 15 November called on schools in Herefordshire to undertake regular pupil surveys to help stamp out long term bullying.

Child Safety Pledge
Guernsey's assistant director for children and maternity services has said vulnerable children in Guernsey will be protected.

Committed to Jersey Text Service
The NSPCC has said it still wants to set up a text service for the Channel Islands despite a recent attempt not working.

Child Abuse Fears can be Texted
Research by the children's charity suggests that one-in-five people said they were concerned about a child but 55% did nothing about it unless they reported concerns immediately.