To hate Children in Need?

"CIN and BBC is being investigated whether you like it or not."

Um... I have no particular strong opinion either way TBH

But that is how they fund projects - and I happen to know that many smaller projects are much happier with a regular source of income rather than a lump sum up front, it can affect their funding from other sources for starters.

The school thing is pretty horrible as a lot of children with Autism and the like really don't like the dressing up days, which is fine, but most of the time it's compulsory.

I can't bloody stand it!! I'd pay the school double not forget the whole thing

not having to rely on donations from people watching celebs sitting in tubs of baked beans.

that's another thing that makes it grotesque " oh what a LARK it would be to fill a bath tub with food and then just sit in it, because we're just MAD like that lolz lolz, and then we can ask passers by to give us money towards good causes like food banks! coz like CIN learns us that some cute kiddies have no food (sad face)"
Cause that makes fucking sense

I hate it. Children in need should be getting support from the state - not having to rely on donations from people watching celebs sitting in tubs of baked beans.

"avoidable MY ASS…" that should have said

YABU, don't like, don't watch. How can you not like the bear!

Don't really see why it matters what the presenters are paid, they will be paid by the BBC not from the money raised. If you want to object from the point of view of your TV license then complain away...

I don't watch it I find it grotesque! A bunch of high earners alternating between their stock "sad face" and their idiotic grins telling people to "dig deep" - fucking don't "dig deep"! give what you can afford/want to give but don't give what you don't have!

Children in need is NOT avoidable, it's not real "charity" half the time, most of the money raised is through peer pressure not real charity. Unless you don't work, keep your kids off school, and don't go outside, you can't avoid children in need!

I was in boots today to pick up some Tenna and some guy with a bucket told me that I "look like someone who wants to enter our tombola" - no I fucking don't! I just don't wanna smell of wee! leave me alone!

avoidable

YANBU OP! I have a deep dislike of Children in Need. But then, I don't like Comic Relief or Sport Relief either.

Generally speaking, any big, glitzy charity events leave me a bit cold. They seem to go directly against what charitable giving should be about, imo.

LouisvilleLlama you mean like people who bake/ do other random things to help fund raise...

YES

Rosie Mail? Telegraph? There's not a huge difference really.

If CiN give a 3 year grant to a Support Worker, say £60K, they'll release £20k in the first year and hold £40k in reserve. There are many good reasons to do this, not least to ensure that the money is being used properly by the project but also to guarantee the future of the post so that projects aren't worrying about whether their next year's funding is going to come from. Does that not make sense?

I have never watched it since my friend and a group of her course mates worked back stage during the early nougties as part of some uni thing - looking after the celebs and running errands. She was treated like crap, told by her superior she wasn't dressed "slutty enough" and felt up by big names.

I can't abide it either. Yadnbu

Blimey, this post is so refreshing. I thought I was the only one who hated it! A few years ago I looked up how the money was distributed & in my area ( the whole of the south west, from Bristol down) received £150,00. If that is spread across the country at that level, there's no way that it adds up to the £30 million they raised that year.

Could someone do the maths for me? Lol

What really grips me though, is the pressure at school. I'm fiercely opposed to children in need, but my child doesn't understand this so I have to go along with it so that he isn't singled out among his peers. Really annoys me! Grrrr lol

One of the many reasons the charity Kids Company went bust was because they didn't have a buffer.

YANBU. It totally ruined radio for me today and there is no way in hell I would watch it on TV!

The 90 million isn't a buffer...it's the money already allocated to projects, they pay set amounts annually for a set number of years, it's that money so that they're never in the position of promising money to projects that are then relying on it and then they're short and can't pay it.

Also recommended buffers for charities is at least 6 months running costs, so for large charities that is large amounts of money.

JustAnother

The musicians get paid and I could tell you a story about good old TW, but I won't as I don't like to speak ill of the dead.
Local celebs and presenters are paid too, the ones where they link to your local area.
The TV presenters are on a fair whack it was 7k about 15 years ago iirc.

I've worked in a nursery where a lot of children with additional needs, attend. It recieve money almost every year form this charity and would close down without these donations. It angers me that we need to beg money for a charity, but I've seen the good it can do for the children and their parents.

I actually don't like watching the programme but I always donate.

My workplace is on it tonight.

Same. I donate every year but hate the programme. I find it tedious and awkward.

Makes me cringe. Attention-seeking, so called celebrities asking other people to donate. Hate it.