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Childline

Readers may already know that ChildLine - the UK's free 24 hour helpline for children and young people - is sadly only able to answer around a quarter of the 15,000 attempted calls to the 0800 1111 helpline every day.

Children may have to dial several times before they get through - tragically some give up altogether. There is a very simple way for your readers to help raise funds for ChildLine. It won't cosy a penny - just a few minutes of their time.

BT is sending customer surveys to each of their 19 million residential customers this year and have promised to donate £1 to ChildLine for every one that is filled out and returned.

It costs ChildLine an average of £32 to counsel each child, so £500,000 could help more than 15,500 children and young people.

Esther Rantzen Chairman, ChildLine