About Us
Our Mission
Our Mission is to promote and create a safe internet for children.
Our Vision
Our Vision is a world where children can go online without fear of bullying, predation, extortion or other forms of violence as enshrined in the UN CRC and Optional Protocols, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Our Charitable Objects
Our Beneficiaries
Our Beneficiaries are children, young people and their families. We support them through established charities that work to safeguard children from cyber-bullying, sexting, online grooming and harmful content on websites and social media platforms
Areas in which we and the charities we support work include:
We promote and increase individual and collective knowledge of children and young people’s online safety.
We help develop tools for the advancement of individual capabilities, competences, skills and awareness to enhance the safeguarding of children and young people in the digital context.
We work with other charities and 3rd sector organisations that promote activities that have a proven beneficial effect on health, especially in the context of children’s online experience.
We work with charities and 3rd sector organisations that promote equality and diversity by the elimination of discrimination on the grounds of:
age
disability
neurodiversity
race
nationality
colourism
religion or belief
sexual orientation
socio economic status / position within the economy / perceived social class
We will work with charities and 3rd sector organisations that are concerned with the relief of the effects of online abuse, cyberbullying, sextortion, extortion, such as those providing specialist services to children and young people.
Our Trustees
SHARON PURSEY OBE
Sharon is one of the founders of SafeToNet Ltd and The SafeToNet Foundation. Sharon is an entrepreneur having started and run her own business for 13 years. Her background is in the travel industry where she sold complex IT solutions to enterprise customers. Sharon recently won the Women in Business – Rising Star award and has been shortlisted for the Woman in IT Awards – Woman of the Year. Sharon was awarded an OBE in the 2020 New Year’s Honours list.
TED HAILEY
Ted is one of the founders of SafeToNet Ltd. Prior to this, Ted spent 11 years as CFO of Fibernet Group plc a telecommunications company which operated in the UK and Europe. Ted joined Fibernet when it was a private company in 1990, helping it list on AIM six years later and secure a main market listing in 1998, where it became a constituent member of the FTSE 250 index shortly afterwards. Since leaving Fibernet ted has worked as CFO for several companies and startups.
NEIL FAIRBROTHER
Neil is an award-winning marketer from the TMT sector. He was recognised by the Sunday Observer as one of the most innovative marketers in the UK and has held senior roles at Vodafone, NEOS networks, SSE Enterprise Telecom and Motorola where as the Global Product Marketing Manager he created a $30 million revenue stream for VOIP product portfolio and apps. Neil is ITIL-certified, is technically aware, entrepreneurial, and a motivational team player.