Niall is doing an at home concert on Thursday in aid of ISPCC Childline. Do you know anything about them as an organisation?
Yes, they are the national child protection charity. They do vital work, I donate to them monthly and have done for many years.
Right now it’s extremely urgent that they get all the support and donations they can get. They run Childline, the child support hotline (phone, text, email support) and there has been a huge spike in usage of the service since the coronavirus started and schools closed.
As well as a spike of anxiety and worry in kids due to the virus there is the fact that countless children are now stuck in their homes in abusive situations without an escape, or do not have access to the support/food they usually receive at school. The website/email service has seen the biggest spike as many kids are too scared to phone Childline in case they are overheard in the home during lockdown. It’s a crisis situation in so many ways.
I didn’t know Niall had been added to the list of musicians doing the Instagram home concerts, that is amazing. I watched Hozier’s last week and other Irish artists have been performing most nights.
Please do consider donating when Niall is on. Donations are mainly via text donation (1 text = 4 euro) which won’t work for people outside Ireland. But Niall fans can consider donating here, or consider donating to your own country’s child protection charity because the situation will be the same everywhere experiencing lockdown.