We need your help to realise the objectives of The Cyber Trust
Please consider making a donation through our Just Giving Charity Account, or The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), get in touch with any of our Trustees, or simply email donations@thecybertrust.org – thank you.
The Cyber Trust is registered with The Fundraising Regulator which means we follow their Code of Practice and the Fundraising Promise.
We are a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, Registered Charity number 1171883.
We are registered with HMRC for Gift Aid (you can download a GiftAid declaration), and we have a Just Giving Charity Account to make donations as straightforward as possible.
We are also registered with The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) donation process. If you would rather use BACS or would like to discuss a donation with one of the Trustees, email donations@thecybertrust.org and we will get back to you.
Help us Work with Families to Protect Children in the Cyber World
The Cyber Trust was created to help children become safer online. Initially, the Cyber Trust’s work was restricted to Gloucestershire, however after growing demand the decision was made to develop an app for Android, iPhone and iPad devices. Known as ‘SpeakOut!’, the free app covers a range of relevant subjects, specifically for pupils transitioning from primary to secondary schools which is seen to be a critical time in the development of young people.
We are also close to and and have liaised with The Child Online Protection (COP) team at the International Telecommunication Union (A UN Organisation) and their parallel development of Child Online Protection services and technology: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Cybersecurity/Pages/COP/COP.aspx. COP released their AskMe App which drew on our collaboration in September 2023: https://www.itu.int/cop/askme/
In February 2025, The Board of Cyber Security Challenge UK Ltd, which closes at the end of FY 24/25, donated various assets to The Cyber Trust, including all the games within cybergamesuk.com / CyberLand and various other popular resources. Those are now managed by The Cyber Trust, and sponsors / donors are always welcome – all the content is free to users / players.
What Next? Future plans and development:
Continuing in 2025/26, we are looking to demonstrate, evaluate and promote differing family protection tools and to promote their use to protect children. We will promote family discussion regarding the risks family members face using online systems and services and will also provide information and video instructions on how to set up and manage some of the family protection systems currently available.
The release of the recent OFCOM Media Nations 2023 report was the trigger for a BBC Radio Gloucester programme to which The Cyber Trust contributed through one of our Trustees: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/research-and-data/tv-radio-and-on-demand/media-nations-reports/media-nations-2023 . A 6 minute recording is linked here: BBC Radio Gloucestershire Family Safety 230924 . We also featured on LBC Radio as a guest in Clare Foges’ programme of 16 March 2025 ahead of the launch of The Online Safety Act the next day (Although the Act was passed in 2023, it is only March 2025 and onwards that powers arrive that will apply to search services and social media). You can hear one of our Trustees discuss the issues with Clare and where The Cyber Trust Family Internet Safety project is positioned here (14 minutes): LBC Radio Online Safety 160225
We contributed to BBC Radio Gloucestershire’s and BBC TV Points West day about young people and online safety on Thursday 15th May 2025. The programmes involved radio, online and TV doing interviews with experts, police, school teachers and pupils throughout the day. The Cyber Trust (DT) did a 15 minute slot on the morning show with Nicky Price at 11 AM, available here: BBC Radio Gloucestershire Family Safety 150525
One of the key issues that keeps cropping up is the lack of support for Parents in how to manage and promote online safety for their children. The other major issue is the management of screen time and how best to ensure that children were not becoming isolated and bedroom bound. This is an area where The Trust can help and make a difference – and hence why it is included in our programme of work for 2025/26.
The focus for the Family Internet Safety Project is to promote the use of mobile phone and computer monitoring solutions which allow adults to monitor what their children are doing online and to intervene when an issue is identified which may put the child at risk. The first phase of the project is now complete. Our family survey returned over 200 responses from parents and carers.
The survey results (on our project page) make clear that monitoring has a very low take-up with parents although most do try to use tools that are provided by the telecom companies.
We seek funding, partners and sponsors for our pilot project to explore how household internet monitoring tools may help family members to stay safe online.
