Comic Relief: Worst since 2007

I think it's more celebrity based rather than comedian based as well and the comedians and sketches they have aren't as funny. Comedians are woke and boring these days. Sanctified comedy. They do political rants and think that's comedy.

It won’t be one single thing, it’ll be a combination. The poor press from the white saviour stuff, austerity, people feeing they have little enough for themselves. The terrible events in Christchurch. And yes, I think the allsorts thing will have had an effect. I know ive spoken to several friends and family about it who have been quite shocked and said they’d no longer donate.

The variety entertainment format has always been excruciatingly naff.

Personally I want to know where my moneys going. The malaria/women’s clinics? Yup that’s a great cause, but I won’t donate to the umbrella organisation if they’re sending money to allsorts.

AnnaMagnani oh yes the irony of someone wasting a vast quantity of food in order to get people to donate money to feed starving people.

Also agree with TheCountess although I've been of that opinion for many, many years and subsequently don't donate to CR, CiN, Sport Relief or any other monolithic charities. I do support several charities but research and choose those whose objectives I believe in and who demonstrate a tangible benefit to those who are in receipt of their services.

I think maybe the fact that over the last decades Britain has seen a widening gap between rich and poor is one reason why this isn't sitting quite right any more. It is starting to look rather Victorian with the slebs resembling the upper classes preaching to the lower orders about what they should do with their money.
30 years ago I don't think Comic Relief felt like that.

I've always felt Children in Need were the pits, possibly due to years of trauma based on the nightmare of 'Let's see what's happening in your region!' and it always being a man sitting in a tub of baked beans because let's face it, regional TV is shit.

However as an adult I can see they fund a lot of projects that would struggle to fundraise any other way.

Comic Relief annoys me with the 'Africa' focus - Africa isn't a country FFS, why not poverty stricken bits of South America or Asia, it now seems a bit random and dated.

And both need a think about how to tell us what an inspirational woman is, if they are going to focus on women and girls' projects

The celebrity angle is tiresome. When celebs go to Africa I assume that they visit for the poor for the cameras but sleep in a hotel at night so it's no more than a glorified holiday. We have seen images of extreme poverty in Africa so it's questionable whether we need to see more. The airfare of celebrity plus technical crew would be an enormous number of meals or other necessities for someone who needs it.
Agree about people with millions telling people with less money to donate. What have they done to raise money? Have they contributed money or anything?

I'm not sure it's to do with David Lammy / Allsorts to be honest, but more to do with the public feeling the financial effects of years worth of austerity and stagnant wages relative to the cost of living. I get pissed off more and more each year that I get asked to donate money (when I'm struggling), by celebrities who have millions in the bank.

I agree that Comic Relief etc would make more money if money went to UK causes only. I have heard a lot of resentment about government foreign aid and Comic Relief is a sort of extension of that.

Personally I will try to prioritise local charities for donations and fund raising.

Yes it's massively out of touch with the public and what is happening on the streets.

They raised £63m which is almost £1 per person in the UK which is a massive amount.

I think that there's a limit on the amount that they can raise and considering how many other charity events go on- Sports Relief, Children in Need etc that they are lucky to get any support with this archaic event. It's a relief that my kids are not in primary so I'm not pressured into supporting them any longer. I think that they get a lot of donations that would be better spent by local charities with more well-defined aims.

To be perfectly honest I live in a socio economically deprived town in northern England, and the homeless crisis is out of control, I think fundraising pointed in that direction or impoverished single mothers etc the disabled would garner more support.

I think the white saviour comment meant many people thought the implication was that white people shouldnt give money to countries with black populations as white countries trying to"help" black ones had colonial overtones.

Both CIN and Comic Relief are grant givers. If you donate then you need to accept that the projects they fund may not chime with your personal philanthropy.
I'd rather donate to a named charity.
I lost all my respect for CR after one film they showed a Few years ago which I thought crossed the line.

It's got nothing to do with allsorts

Prove that that has nothing to do with it....

It's got nothing to do with allsorts (that's your personal beef / trans whinge wedge in). People are just sick of patronising rich stars asking for money. You cant go through an ad break these days without a charity plea.

Agree that Children in Need do good work but we are deciding to focus firstly on Child Poverty charities in our borough.

I generally dislike sponsored events as it is trying to persuade other people to give to the charity of your choice. I'll sponsor family children but am not keen on sponsoring adults, especially as they're usually doing stuff they want to do anyway. I'd rather everyone just did the fitness activities they wanted and gave their own money to the charities they want if they want to link their activity/ diet/ facial hair to charitable giving.

Many children would be worse off*

I have worked with several C I N projects ime if it wasn't for the grants ma y children would be worse.

Woman of the week changed my mind about giving. And as l am normally one of the people responsible for choosing and organising charity bashes in our fitness group l didn’t bother doing it this year.
Nobody else jumped up to do it so that’s a loss of £680 from last year.
I have suggested a more focus based approach to charity giving and it has excited people, we are choosing a local charity and are planning our sponsored events around that.
I think the same about Children In Need so l won’t be organising anything for that either. Our group want to see where the money is spent now.

That's it in a nutshell MrsJayy.

So man who had operations and a fetish is the only person from history CR could find to be woman of the week ?

I'd forgotten the "woman of the week" farce. Yes, that probably had an effect too as I'd decided before it started that it wasn't getting my money.
That sounds illegal Margot33. Schools shouldn't be deciding which charities parents and children support. There's charitable giving and there's coercion.

I happened to put BBC1 on when the first part of the 'Four weddings' bit came on so stated to watch it.

I was embarrassed because it was so crap. Richard Curtis seems to me to have had one good idea in his life.

Agree with LangCleg. I don't want to give to a large organisation that then decides where my money goes especially if some of the money then goes to trans ideology propaganda, I prefer to give directly to my chosen organisations. Watching comic relief or CiN is also very boring.