Last year Childline spoke to 517 children from the Channel Islands.

Currently children from the islands must contact the South West's helpline, which deals with 320 calls a day.

But a lack of money and volunteers means that only about 130 of those daily calls get through.

Maureen Pinwill of Jersey Friends of Childline, is looking for volunteers who can help organise events in aid of the helpline, which has been running for nearly 18 years.

She said: "It all started on a very small scale, but now it encompasses a whole range of children's problems.

"You can see by the number of children who try to get through and those that are answered that we need to possibly get another line."