Plymouth’s NSPCC Service Centre is already bringing the sparkle into Christmas.
As part of the charity’s launch of the national Get Your Sparkle On campaign, a Festival of Trees has been launched at the Theatre Royal Plymouth.
A total of 25 large Christmas trees have been located at the Theatre Royal, each sponsored by a business or organisation with a connection to the city. Local school children and people from the business community decorated the trees at a launch event on November 12. The trees will be judged at a special tree party on December 7.
2018 is the 22nd year the community in Plymouth has joined forces with the NSPCC to keep local children safe.
All the money raised will be donated to the NSPCC, which has an active Schools Service in Plymouth. In the last academic year more than 20 primary schools in the city hosted Speak Out Stay Safe assemblies, which taught nearly 6,500 children about how to stay safe from abuse.
The Get Your Sparkle On campaign encourages people to wear sparkly clothes, glittery accessories, sequin make-up or to hold a sparkly party with friends and colleagues. Supporters can ‘get their sparkle on’ by making a £3 donation to the NSPCC.
Plymouth’s NSPCC service centre supports children in the city who have been sexually abused or are displaying harmful sexual behaviour through its programmes Letting the Future In and Turn the Page.
Earlier this year the city was announced as one of only two in the whole of the UK to run the Together for Childhood programme that aims to prevent child sexual abuse.
