Katy's Annual Fundraiser for The Lucy Faithfull Foundation

Here I go again! This year it’s The Percy Pud on 1 December 2024, making a triumphant return in style this time DRESSED AS A CHRISTMAS PUDDING! So come on, lets see if we can raise a whopping pudding-worthy £900 to bring us over the £2000 donation mark this time.

Last year was the Doncaster 10k, running as “Badass Bird” bringing home £480.
December 2022 I entered my first 10K race, The Percy Pud, and came home clutching a Christmas pudding, a commemorative woolly hat and £640 from donations to give to The Lucy Faithfull Foundation. 
Back in September 2021, I strapped on my trainers and chose to set off for my first real run.

I will be doing a fundraiser every year for as long as I can, as the work the Foundation does in preventing child sexual abuse is so very important to me.

About The Lucy Faithfull Foundation:
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation is a Registered Charity No 1013025 and is the only UK-wide charity dedicated solely to preventing child sexual abuse. 

Our vision is of a society where children are free from sexual abuse and exploitation.
Our mission is to prevent abuse from happening by working in partnership with voluntary and statutory sector professionals as well as the general public.
The majority of children who suffer sexual abuse are abused by someone they know, someone in their family or social network. This makes it incredibly hard for them to tell anyone. This is why we, as adults, must do as much as we can to protect them.
Lucy Faithfull Foundation services, programmes and projects are designed to place a protective shield around children, to help prevent abuse from happening ever, or from happening again. Our specialist staff work with everyone involved in a child’s life, tackling the problem from all angles so that children are as safe as they can be.
Where abuse has already taken place, we work with all those affected including adult male and female abusers; young people with harmful sexual behaviour; children with concerning sexual behaviours; victims of abuse and other family members. But we also work in families and with adults and young people where there has been no abuse, to help them keep themselves and others as safe as possible.
This comprehensive approach is the only way we can effectively tackle child sexual abuse.

Ways you kind donations can help:
£5 - could help pay for printed materials for the children, parents and teachers we work with in schools on Internet Safety. These sessions help adults understand what they can do to help keep children safe online and teach children how to keep themselves and their friends safe.

£10 - could help pay for a Helpline Operator to answer calls for an hour, ensuring those who need advice, information and support receive it. Our Stop it Now! Helpline is for all adults with concerns about child sexual abuse. It allows people to talk in confidence, often at times when they feel they have no one else to talk to.

£20 - could help pay for 20 Parents Protect! Learning Programmes on disk so families who do not have internet access can watch the video. This 30 minute film shows how to create a family safety plan with simple steps that create safer environments for children.

£50 - helps pay for a Stop it Now! Helpline caller to have a call-back with a specialist Lucy Faithfull Foundation practitioner. This service is available for those with particular needs and allows them to receive specialist, in-depth information, help and advice.

£150 - helps fund a place on our educative course for friends and relatives of internet offenders (Inform). This allows people to get the support, information and advice they need to protect children.

£150 - would enable us to deliver a Parents Protect! workshop a group of parents and carers in a community near you! These educational sessions raise awareness of child sexual abuse and provide positive messages about what can be done to protect children. They focus on dispelling common myths about child sex offenders while at the same time arming parents and carers with sound information that will help them keep their children safe.

£300 - pays for a child or young person with worrying sexual behaviour, as well as their family, to receive help from a specialist Lucy Faithfull Foundation practitioner. Families often turn to us after struggling to find help elsewhere.

£700 - allows an internet offender with limited means to attend our ten week Internet Offending educational course (Inform+), which is designed to help offenders understand and manage their behaviour, helping to prevent further offending and reduce the risks to children.

stopitnow.org.uk is a useful website for anyone with concerns about child sexual abuse. The Stop it Now! campaign operates a confidential freephone helpline 0808 1000 900 for any adult with concerns including those worried about the sexual behaviour of another adult towards children, those worried about their own thoughts or behaviour towards children and those concerned about the worrying sexual behaviour of a child or young person.

parentsprotect.co.uk is a child sexual abuse prevention and awareness website which helps parents and carers do the best they can to protect their children from sexual abuse. The site is a useful resource of information, guidance and resources.