To hate Children in Need?

Surely the point is that the celebs DO donate their time for free? That's what I always thought???  you mean like people who bake/ do other random things to help fund raise...

I don't watch it, nor dress up at work in my pj's, nor do I donate.
i like to give to the individual local charities that really need the money and you know where it's going.

The whole idea was to accept charitable donations and make a difference to childrens' lives. But CIN are squirreling the money like any other big banker.

This really isn't true you know.

CiN allocates all the money raised, annually. The grants that are paid out aren't paid in lump sums. The money in reserve has already been allocated. No properly run charity would release all the money up front without making sure that each year's grant was properly monitored and reported on. And remember, CiNs administration costs are funded out of the interest raised on those reserves so that your pound does indeed go straight to the grant recipient.

Give or don't give. Watch or don't watch. But don't present Daily Mail anti-BBC 'reporting' as any kind of fact.

Children in Need's accounts are publicly available.

My DS is severely disabled and in eighteen years I dI'd not think he had ever benefited from CIN money until this year. DS uses a two hour Saturday group every other week supported by CIN money...

They're hoping the funding continues.

I don't donate to CIN because it's a big umbrella organisation but I do donate to some of the individual causes highlighted in the shows.

I would like to know how much these celebs are being paid to take part - don't think think they do it free out of the goodness of their own hearts

Terry wogan got some knd of bouns to present didn't he, after it was exposed it stopped, but for a good portion of the time he got something.

Surely the point is that the celebs DO donate their time for free? That's what I always thought???

Yanbu. I never watch it. Its very 70s in its approach.

YANBU

Millionaires telling people, many of whom are only just keeping a roof over their heads, to give money,

All of which goes to fill in the gaps in services caused by a lack of government money, in no small part because people like aforementioned millionaires avoid paying taxes.

Just ask for a donation and stop interfering with the schedules.

But we know perfectly well that that wouldn't be anything like as successful in raising money.

FFS, what is it with all the hate? How does it hurt any of you? No-one forces you to watch or to give money.

I hate it too. It's shite.

I don't watch it as I don't want to watch most of the people on it. I do donate and the DC buy from the bake sales at school and pay their £1 for non uniform day.
I agree it's shitty that charities are providing for young carers, the govt should fund that properly as all carers save the govt shed loads of money. It's the same with GOSH, our foremost children's hospital reliant on charity money.
The charity auctions boil my pass too. Rich people buying fun things, they should sell raffle tickets that way we can all get a chance to win those.

YANBU. Hate all these things. Sub-standard so-called entertainment. Just ask for a donation and stop interfering with the schedules.

YANBU

I would like to know how much these celebs are being paid to take part - don't think think they do it free out of the goodness of their own hearts.

Part of my job involves celebs doing stuff like that for really decent charities and I have been GOBSMACKED at the fees they demand and what they turn down because the huge sums of money are just not huge enough.

In our own minds we've all been as rich as Bill Gates twice over.

Andrew: So how much did it raise this year?
BBC: A squillion pounds.
Andrew: Here's five squillion, now give us three years off!

I can't stand it either. I've been looking forward to watching Citizen Khan all week and then realised today ,that it's not on.😧

Elledouble, exactly... I'm cash strapped they're rolling in it. They say they give their time... I think they should give a million instead!

Hate them all, children in need, comic relief, text Santa, stand up to cancer.

We actively fundraise several times a year for 3 charities very close to our hearts & donate to several more regularly but I find the televised appeals contrived

Rosie

All charities keep a buffer.

I have issues with it but I don't hate it.
Whenever they use Young Carers I want to scream at the tv 'those families should be getting proper help then you would NEED to raise funds for Young Carers days out and community centres!'
I don't like the disnefication of childhood cancer in order to raise funds i.e. sad but nothing too distressing, pretty bald children but no pictures of the more unpleasant aspects of the disease.

BUT BUT BUT....we need CIN more than ever. Stuff that used to be funded by government is not longer funded because its not statutory. CIN money won't just be used for nice extras and special treats. It will be increasingly used for things you would assume were provided with your taxes.

I have worked in the public and charity sector nearly all my adult life. The families and kids I work with need that money.

As much as CIN can annoy me sometimes its nothing to the rage inducing FB statuses that are vomited out every year. Moaning and complaining and peddling urban myths and other bollocks about CIN. I have deleted more people on CIN and Comic Relief nights than at any other time.

I remember one woman moaning that money was going to 'those sorts of children' (poor, disadvantaged) and not to 'curing cancer'.

Speaking as someone who lost my child to cancer I found that fucking outrageous on so many levels.

So YANBU for not liking it but if you think it doesn't do any good or that we don't need it YABU.

The auction is for Things That Money CAN Buy, clearly. Because they do.

CIN has lost its USP, it already isn't and won't be, the same.