As you may have noticed we've been working with Aviva and Railway Children for the last year and the great news is that, thanks to you, Aviva have been able to give £200,000 to help support Railway Children's work. For more information on how this has happened and the way it will be spent please click here
A couple of weeks ago I was invited by Railway Children to go on a street walk with a couple of the folks who work at New Horizon, a centre that helps young homeless people in central London and which is supported by the charity. I went with two bloggers from the Mumsnet Bloggers Network and they express much more eloquently than I can here and here what it was like to visit the centre and go on the "rounds" with the workers.
All I can say is that for me it made the campaign we'd been working on all year - all the copy, ads, tweets, threads - make sense. It made all the rhetoric real and the stats seem suddenly very relevant and important. Some of the stories the workers told us were heartbreaking, some were heart warming; everything we saw and heard made us want to continue with our support for this vital work. Seeing it all in action also made me really proud that Mumsnetters had responded in the way they did over the course of 2013 and that our community was able to play a part in giving practical, effective help to young people who really needed it and who could so easily be our own children.
So I urge you in the midst of all the busy-ness to just take two minutes to look at this page and read the blogs from mum to teens (keep a tissue handy) and donnanavarro.com. And look out for more opportunities to help Railway Children on Mumsnet in 2014.
Thanks to one and all.