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At The Security Institute, we believe in the power of collaboration to create lasting change. That’s why we proudly partner with a diverse range of charities that align with our mission and values. Through these partnerships, we support meaningful initiatives that make a real difference in communities around the world.
By working together, we amplify impact, raise awareness, and provide vital resources where they are needed most.
We partner with one specific charity each year so that, with your support, we together can create positive, lasting change. For this year’s partner, read below.
Olivia was just three years old when the abuse began. She was eight when the police finally rescued her.
For five years, she was subjected to relentless rape, torture, and sexual abuse. Every moment was recorded, photographed, and uploaded.
Strangers watched. They shared. They saved it for themselves.
The man who stole her childhood is now behind bars, but Olivia’s suffering never really stopped.
Her images are still out there. People are still looking for them.
At the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), we know Olivia’s face. We have seen her as a toddler. We’ve seen her at four years old. At five, at six, at seven, at eight. We have watched her grow up through images and videos that should never have existed.
To show exactly what ‘repeat victimisation’ means, we counted the number of times we saw Olivia’s image online during a three-month period.
We saw her 347 times.
On average, that’s five times each and every working day.
Olivia is just one child. There are thousands like her.
Now, a decade later, new technology is creating ways to exploit her all over again.
Offenders are now using artificial intelligence (AI) to manipulate real abuse material of victims like Olivia, generating new, artificial versions of the images that originally documented her suffering. These AI-generated images are being downloaded, traded, and sold.
And Olivia is not alone.
On a dark web forum, one user shared AI models trained on 128 named victims of child sexual abuse. A downloadable AI model, fine-tuned to produce new images of Olivia, is available for free, merely a few clicks away.
While Olivia is now free, her torment lives on every day that the images and videos of her ordeals are circulated on the internet. Her suffering has become a commodity to be downloaded and reimagined, however online criminals see fit.
Since its creation in 1996, the IWF has been at the forefront of the global fight against child sexual abuse material. Our dedicated team of analysts and image classification assessors work relentlessly to find, assess and remove images and videos of children suffering sexual abuse.
What started as a UK Hotline for members of the public to report child sexual abuse has evolved to a global operation, with proactive searches allowing for a more aggressive and comprehensive approach to our mission.
It is a haunting thought. Olivia may never truly be able to escape her tormentors, who can access and now remodel her image into endless scenarios.
This is why support from organisations like the Security Institute is vital. Their funding helps us continue our work to protect not just Olivia, but the hundreds, if not thousands, of children like her whose abuse is being shared, manipulated, and now reimagined by AI.
Survivors like Olivia deserve more than to be endlessly re-victimised by material documenting their sexual abuse. They deserve safety, dignity, and the chance to move forward without the fear that their suffering will be digitally recreated forever.
With the right support – from partners, collaborators, funders, and those who refuse to let this crime go unchecked – we can develop the technology, campaigns and policies needed to stop this abuse at its source. We can ensure that technology is used to protect children, not exploit them.
We can’t reach into the screens and stop the abuse, stop the viral marketing, stop people targeting children. But with a mission to eliminate all online child sexual abuse imagery, we aim to help all the Olivias out there into adulthood, regardless of whether they’re truly aware of us or not.
£10 could support our Hotline to remove a single webpage from the internet which could show hundreds of images of child sexual abuse.
£20 could support us to add web pages to our blocking list. This prevents children and adults from accidentally stumbling onto child sexual abuse photos and videos online.
£50 could support the IWF to ‘hash’ images of child sexual abuse, preventing them from being shared or uploaded to the internet.
£100 could support the IWF to issue several ‘Takedown Notices’ to companies hosting child sexual abuse imagery preventing repeat victimisation every time images of their abuse are viewed or shared online.
As part of the IWF’s duty of care and well-being programme, £250 could provide two of the Hotline analysts with counselling sessions to help them cope with the distressing nature of their work.
As a not for profit charity IWF relies on support from individuals, businesses, and governments to continue its vital work. Whether through reporting suspicious content, spreading awareness, or funding our initiatives, you can help make a difference. Together, we can create a safer internet for everyone.
Easy everyday ways to help that don’t cost you anything! Visit: iwf.org.uk/everyday
Get a discount on a diverse lineup of events scheduled for 2025 and support the critical mission of the IWF in combating online child sexual abuse. Visit our Get Active page.
Every penny makes a difference. Make a one-off or regular donation supporting our front-line teams.
Scan this QR code to make a quick donation or visit, iwf.org.uk/donate to set up regular monthly giving or Payroll Giving.
To donate your member credits to the IWF, please contact [email protected]
To learn more about their work, become a charity partner or report suspected online child sexual abuse images or videos, visit iwf.org.uk
If you would like to discuss supporting the IWF then please contact Kate Moss, IWF Head of Fundraising: [email protected]
