How about that for a goal for the year?! Glen Jones, from East Cowes, has set himself quite a challenge - a marathon a month throughout 2019 - all to raise month for NSPCC.
The NSPCC Helpline handled nearly 20,000 calls about child neglect in 2017/18. As a result the helpline made more than 30 referrals to agencies on the Isle of Wight.
NSPCC's Close the Loophole campaign calls for all adults working with children to be covered by the law, as the Government promised, but according to the NSPCC, appear to be backtracking from.
Young people on the Isle of Wight should not suffer in silence if they are worried about their GCSE and A-Level grades. Childline is there to listen and help.
The sheer scale of grooming, where predators have either messaged their victim or gone on to meet them in person, is evident from the national and regional figures highlighted by the NSPCC.
In first nine months of the new offence of Sexual Communication with a Child, 62 offences were recorded across the region - with groomers using platforms such as SnapChat, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook to contact their victims.
The NSPCC reports that thousands of young people across the country seek help after being sexually abused by other children. They say young people are struggling to understand what has happened to them and some teachers need more help on how to respond
The findings from this anonymised survey will be used to help develop a better understanding of young people’s online lives via a national academic report.
Pupils and teachers set to go head-to-head in games such as ‘Who Wants to be a Mathionnaire?’ on the NSPCC Number Day. Find out if your school is taking part.