The Childline Board
The Childline Board is comprised of 17 senior individuals from the world of media, TMT and entertainment. The Board was formally founded in September 2010, following the merger of our Childline20 and There4me.com Fundraising Boards, and has since raised over £23 million for our Childline Service through fundraising and challenge events, corporate support and media donations.
Chaired by Tom Toumazis MBE, the Childline Board have an impressive track record of securing corporate partnerships including Accenture, lastminute.com, AOL UK, The Walt Disney Company, Trinity Mirror, ITV, The Inflexion Foundation, First Utility.
Their events are always an industry highlight, hosting engagement dinners, balls, a movie preview club, charity ski trips, an annual quiz, and more recently an industry Sports Day. Their commitment is also demonstrated through their support in helping us win multi-million pound corporate partnerships, offering millions in gifted media space each year and running/cycling/racing all over the UK all to support vulnerable children.
- Tom Toumazis MBE, Chair of the Childline Board and NSPCC Trustee
- Geoff Austin, Managing Director at Moelis & Co
- Nick Bampton, Founder & CEO at Infinitum Media
- Dan Gopal, CCO at PRS for Music
- Irina Hemmers, Partner at Thoma Bravo
- Lynne Millar, Founder of Blue Pip Productions
- Stuart Orr, Senior Partner TMT at Ernst & Young
- Kathleen Saxton, CMO at Omnicom
- Tim Wilmot, Partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
- Shaun Gregory, CEO at EMG Media
- Mark Endemano, Managing Director at AlixPartners
- Nick Hugh, CEO at The Telegraph
- Jon Slade, CEO at The Financial Times
- Karen Stacey, CEO at Digital Cinema Media
- Ella Dolphin, CEO at Stylist Magazine
- Jane Wolfson, CCO at Hearst
- Kristiana Carlet, Head of International Ad Sales at Spotify
The Childline Circle is an extended network of the Childline Board who are younger executives in the media industry. Since their inception on 1st October 2021 they have been involved in numerous fundraising activities.
These have included sponsoring the Childline Sports Day, taking part in challenge events such as Tough Mudder and the London Marathon, sponsoring the Monday Movie Club, making personal donations, and arranging school collections. They have also attended engagement events such as the Legacy Evening event and the Enders event.
To find out more information about the Childline Board, and any of their upcoming events, please email Sarah.Jeffery@NSPCC.org.uk or Camellia.Huygens@NSPCC.org.uk.
The Rebuilding Childhoods Board
The Rebuilding Childhoods Board was formed in 2005 by Ramez Sousou and has raised over £20million to date. He brought together a core group of Private Equity businessmen who went on to fund the Private Equity Foundation.
The Board typically comprises 10 to 15 individuals from a variety of sectors, including art, luxury brands, finance, technology, and insurance. The Board raises money through major giving, events, corporate partnerships, and products and much more.
On average the Board raise over £500,000 per year and primarily focus its fundraising on the life-changing NSPCC post-sexual abuse services, Letting the Future In, and the Lighthouse, with the aim to support those children and their families who have suffered abuse rebuild their lives.
- David Tait MBE, CEO The World Gold Council (Chair)
- Henrietta Baldock, Chairman at Legal and General Assurance Society
- Jack Freud, Founder IP Publicity
- Daniela Gareh, Director at White Cube Gallery
- Tia Graham, Chief Commercial Officer at Country & Town House
- Fred Mendelsohn, Managing Director at AXM Venture Capital Limited
- Melissa Mullen, Vice President, General Manager, Jo Malone London
- William Pritchett, Group CIO at Royal London
- Magnus Rausing, Founder and Director of MAHR Projects and General Partner of UNTITLED
- Alexandra Schwartz, Partner at Hakluyt Company, Global Head of Financial Sponsors
- Mark Beeston, Founder and Managing Partner at Illuminate Financial Management
- Neda Madzharova, Director at Bridgepoint
- Jonathan Sorrell, President at Capstone
The Rebuilding Childhoods Board is also working on developing the Rebuilding Childhoods Board Advisory Network who will work alongside the Board and its funding activities.
- supporting with securing key corporate partnerships and various corporate activities with; Bank of England, Morgan Stanley, Debenhams, Harrods, HERMES and Chanel to name a few
- hosting and supporting on many events including the NSPCC Art Balls raising £4.95 million across three events in 2011, 2012 and 2015, The three River Café Events in 2014, 2016 and 2018, raising over £2.3 million, Fashion Re-Told in partnership with Harrods, and the RC Board Quiz Event which raised over £400,000 in 2019, 2021 and 2023
- supporting on philanthropic individual gifts as well as trust and foundation donations
- being key campaigners and influencers around our online safety work and sexual abuse support.
David Tait, MBE, RC Board Chair:
"My own personal journey is closely linked to my support of the NSPCC, and I am proud to Chair the Rebuilding Childhoods Board as we directly support their vital post-abuse services and campaign for change. Every day the NSPCC works to protect children and prevent abuse, as the effects are devastating. That’s why for as long as there is abuse, we will fight together to support and rebuild every childhood."
The Sports Steering Group
The Sports Steering Group (formerly the Sports Board) was founded by Sir Rodney Walker, member of the National Volunteer Board and Patron of the FULL STOP Appeal in 1999.
The Group/Board has raised over £25 million, securing 20 patron level members all donating £100,000 to the FULL STOP Appeal along with the support of fundraising initiatives such as the “Fair Play initiative” – a partnership with Sport Relief promoted by Michael Owen, Denise Lewis and Jonny Wilkinson which raised £1 million. The Board has also spearheaded events including Business of Winning gala dinners which featured Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger and Gerard Houllier and the “An Evening with” series with Alan Shearer, Harry Redknapp and Chris Robshaw.
Following the FULL STOP Appeal, Sir Rodney stepped down as Chairman of the Sports Steering Group and vice chairman, Sir David Richards, Chairman of the Premier League took over. In 2012 Sir Dave Richards retired from the Premier League and handed over Chairmanship of the Sports Board to Alex Horne, then General Secretary of The FA.
The Board is going through a period of change whilst it refocuses to look at how we can use the group most effectively to utilise the opportunities and synergies between the sporting industry and children and young people to raise awareness, improve safeguarding and raise significant income to support the NSPCC’s work with children. The group will act as a voice for the charity in the sports industry, to champion NSPCC initiatives and encourage their wide dissemination via sport’s unique comms channels.
The countless endorsements, adoptions and personal celebrity appearances from the world of sport have been amazing and vital in raising public awareness of the NSPCC and child protection issues, with sporting ambassadors such as Jonny Wilkinson, Alan Shearer, James Milner and Ambassador for Childhood, Wayne Rooney lending their support to our campaigns.
- Alex Horne (Chair) - Executive Chairman of NotLost & Consultant for KROLL, Co-Founder
- Louisa Fyans - Director of Communications, The FA
- Jonathan Marks - Managing Director, MTC Management
- Charlie Boss – Chief Commercial Officer, Southampton FC
- Scott Field- British – Director of Communications and Marketing, British Olympic Association
- Frank Clark - Vice Chairman of the LMA
- Nick Kennerley – Managing Director of Eel Pie films, Live Producer at BT Sports
The overall objective of the Sports Network is to create a wider pool of advocates to draw upon within the Sports sector to help us raise more money to keep children safe. The Sports Network has been designed to connect busy executives in the industry with a passion for supporting children in the UK to fundraise for the charity.
The network consists of 70+ senior level staff within their respective organisations who are decision makers and have the influence cultivate and execute financial support. The Network has also been set up for advocates of the charity that want to be involved further with our work but do not have the time or capacity to commit to a Volunteer board level role. Full details of network members and a requests for inductions can be accessed here
Trailblazers brings together fantastic people to celebrate their achievements both in and is also a platform to empower the future generation of women and young people, as all money raised by the event will go towards supporting Childline, a life-changing NSPCC service.
The exclusive event which is now in its third year of delivery features an impressive panel conversation, and Q&A hosted by award-winning sports broadcaster Clare Balding. Clare has been joined by a number of notable speakers such as Dame Kelly Holmes, Dame Katherine Grainger, Lauren Steadman, Charlie Webster and Brenda Trenowden from the business world.
The Property Board
The Property sector has been identified as a new route to market for the NSPCC to create awareness of and drive income to help us achieve our vision. The Property Board has been created to bring together a group of diverse, highly skilled, and experienced senior personnel from the sector who will offer as a group or individually vital assets to help support our work and raise funds.
We officially launched the board in June 2021 and have created a strategy for the board, as well as recruiting the Board Chair and nine board members. We are looking to recruit up to five further board members to ensure that we have a broad skillset and representation across the sector.
In 2021 we secured our first Property Board partnership with Property Week and were the beneficiary charity of their RESI Awards in December 2021, which gave us the opportunity to promote the NPSCC and the new board to a brand-new audience within the sector. We raised over £37,000 from the opportunity. We benefitted again in May 2022 raising over £27,000.
The board is focused on raising funds to build safer communities for children and young people. They have decided to prioritise three of our important services that they feel will aid in achieving this goal. The first service area that they will fundraise for is Child Online Safety, as even though a child’s home is where they should feel safe and protected, they can often be exposed to harmful content online.
The second service that the board believed is crucial for a safe community is Listen up, Speak up. This campaign is designed to raise public awareness of potential indicators of child abuse or neglect and inform them where they can go if they need support. The final service that the board supports by raising funds for is the Helpline which provides adults with advice, guidance, support, and a place to turn to if they have concerns about a child who is either being abused or at risk of abuse. The Helpline can also take action on the adult’s behalf.
- Les Peter (Chair) – Property & Facilities Management Director, BDO UK LLP (formerly Morgan Stanley)
- Alastair Marshall – Cushman Wakefield
- Adam Blazeby – Head of Real Estate Portfolio Management, Morgan Stanley
- Emma Jefferson – Partnerships Director, Site Sales
- Billy Hodges – Head of Agile Advisory, CBRE
- Raj Rajput – Managing Director, Hines
- Niki Kyriacou – BTR Customer Relationship Management, NHBC
- Nick Giraudeau – Global Head of Finance, WeWork
- Emma La Wita - Partner, BCLP Law
- Tracy Ashdown - Previously Head of Operational Management, Capital Projects Global CRE at HSBC
