I don't normally moan about adverts as this is how MNHQ get revenue, but please - ditch the NSPCC one

phew.

urh I saw this this morning

it is terribly crude and you know what it is goign to say but you think "surely they can't be THAT crude about it?"

You can't really do a screen capture - it shows a man beating up a toy chimpanzee and then throwing it on the floor, then it says "Some people do this to children!"

It is very crude and a bit lame TBH

The idea with the NSPCC is that they need to at least make pregnant women cry

I am not referring to this ad as I haven't seen it either. I support MN's right to show it, but I can still be angry with the NSPCC's waste of money.

No, it was offensive, it was something that could have been opened by anyone, and it was POINTLESS. A huge waste of the money I was sending to protect children. That's why I cancelled my direct debit. I also found the campaign sending stuff with our children's names on it just awful. Again, pointless. I'd rather support Kids Company, which manages to do amazing work with some of the most deprived kids in the UK without resorting to these tactics.

is it just me who never notices adverts on websites? i honestly couldn't tell you what's advertised on here (sorry MHHQ).

MN - I will be sorely disppointed if you got rid of the ad (though i feel sure you wont - we cant aford any more flounces for a start!)
Mab - reading your post, i felt all cringey. Particularly the bit abou "so i sent it to save the children instead"....yup, that'll teach them to send you bits of paper that arent quite to you taste!

I beleive we all are aware of child abuse and know it happens, but i don;t think we need to be bombarded with so much advertising of it. the adverts on tv are awful my children regualraly ask questions about them and its ahrd to explain to them what the message is that the nspcc are tryign to get across.

If the money raised was channeled into educating children through talks at school about stranger danger and not keeping secrets if someone tells you to etc, thast this will eb far more worthwhiel than shocking advertising on tv, the internet and what amounts to junk mail.

like a pp i also cancelled my dd to nspcc as i was fed up of all the junk mail that they sent me continuosly and felt my £5 a month would be better spent with a different charity (shelter, who offer housing advice to eveyone including those who are victims of abuse)

Just like the baby name one. I got one through the door and it had my dd's name in one Just what I needed 4 days post-natel

I also hate the NSPCC ads. I really don't know what they are for. We KNOW child abuse is horrible. The people who don't, almost certainly aren't on Mumsnet. I am quite disturbed that so much NSPCC money is spent on advertising rather than helping children in danger. I found the campaign where they sent what looked like Christmas cards, but when you opened them there was a really graphic description of a child being abused, so offensive and intrusive, I cancelled by direct debit to them and gave it to Save The Children instead.

do you know if mn remove this ad i might flounce! (now there's motivation for you)

if the nspcc can't advertise in a hard hitting way here then where???

they HAVE to be horrid and OTT because a lot of child abuse is a LOT worse than the ads are allowed to show (ime)

Um, I hate to be the one that breaks it to you but child abuse is horrid and OTT.....

I was just gonna post the same thread!

It makes me feel ill

I find most NSPCC adverts to be OTT and horrid anyways

But hiding it away and pretending it doesn't happen won't help the children going through it