Is anyone else worried about Sara Cox?

[MsSmartShoes]

She looks broken! I’m really worried about her. This is an extreme challenge and I’m questioning why we need to watch someone suffer and struggle for charity?
I’m in awe and admiration of her, but I also want to give her a HOT bath and tuck her into a big cosy bed with a gallon of tea and a dozen hot buttered crumpets.
Is it just me?

I’m not emotional and not a fan of the bbc. But my goodness I love what she has done and good on her!!

NRTFT and not a Sara Cox fan but she is really putting herself through the mill.
Just heard she’s completed the challenge and I’m relieved that it’s over for her. Not sure what the weather conditions have been like for her today but they’re awful in East Midlands.
Bloody well done Sara.

It’s permissible Not be effusive about a celeb doing a to camera piece about her marathon and pain. It’s manufactured inauthentic tv that just ticks all the she a brave warrior boxes. Emotional manipulation and schlock, it’s formulaic tv to the core.

Exactly!

Of course it would be great if people donated to charity regardless of large (or small!) events, but humans are human. I give monthly to a couple of charities and that's great for their planning, of course, but I donated to CiN as an extra today because of Sara - and I'm sure a lot of the £6m+ linked to her challenge would not have come in without it. That's an absolutely great thing to have done.

I know! I can just imagine these miserable posters sat on their sofa with a mouth like a cat's bum as they type this nonsense online.

I've been quite emotional listening to the updates on Radio 2. She's doing a hard thing to raise a lot of money for a worthwhile cause.....good on her!

All this motivated to give and inspirational warrior - What the marathon demonstrates is the transactional nature of charity donations. Public give when their desire for celeb physical pain and fraught to camera is fully satiated. Public want to see bit of celeb pain & arduous task before they pony up the donation.

Over £7 million. That’s phenomenal. She looks absolutely knackered.

Nope - people need something that catches the imagination to get them to donate. It's often but not always a celeb (eg Captain Tom, before the relatives mucked it all up). And it doesn't have to be painful but it probably needs something about it - sitting in beans for a day, telling jokes for 12h straight or whatever.

Yup. The transaction, the celeb usually needs to do something arduous before public pony up. As you say lightweight endeavour just doesn’t cut it. Public want tears,fatigue and gawp factor.

You seem to think I am agreeing with you. I am not.

How do you think charities should get publicity for their causes?

well you concede celebs need to do something to generate donations and that the fulfilment of public expectation. Celeb does something gritty enough to satisfy public who then feeling satiated make donation

1. I said often, but not always, celebs - and cited Captain Tom. However, smaller fundraising efforts such as 'throw a wet sponge at the teacher' involve something eyecatching/attention grabbing but not celebs
2. I did not say gritty, painful etc - I said something that catches the imagination. For example, doing a fun run dressed as a sequinned fish
3. You haven't replied to my question about how you think charities should get publicity for their causes

I see Prince William has sent congratulations. She wouldn't have to be doing it if him and his ilk weren't hoarding so much wealth. Bloody hypocrite, he should pay his fair share of taxes and kids wouldn't need to rely on the charity of strangers.

What a lot of rot posted by some on this thread, of course Sara Cox has ran the route or are you suggesting that the professor advising her from the Carnegie School was in on it as well?

Think of the time she’s spent training, that’s time she hasn’t been with her family/kids/husband/horse/dog. The most important rule for most in life is put your family first. Sara must have put her challenge first for the last few months.

Her husband was interviewed earlier, he said we just want her home in one piece. She might be Sara Cox to you but she’s a mum, wife, sister, daughter who isn’t a proper runner. We all want her to finish and come home in one piece for a rest.

As I said earlier, I have to drop my car into manual to get up pot bank, just one of the hills she took on today.

Not sure what’s wrong with people on here tbh.

Tremendous achievement, she should be very proud of herself. 🏆

comprehension isn’t your strong suit
I said gritty, I didn’t attribute it to you, at all
You said something is require to trigger donations. So acknowledging there’s minimum something that need to happen -a transaction. Meet the threshold for adequate something and public will donate

Absolutely agree.Expect all the royalist oh but they work sooo hard will pop up now

But im not the one who said i didnt want to be held to judgmental standards but was happy judging others🤷🏻‍♀️

So how do you propose that charities get donations?

Exactly this.

Most of us are lucky enough to have some level of disposal income, even if we have regular monthly donations set up. Maybe if our imaginations are caught by a charity - could be a physical challenge like this, could be something silly like, I dunno, guess the weight of the kitten, could be because the charity is personal to us - then we use some of the disposable income for that this month.

ETA and it probably has to be some level of the latter regardless of how eye catching - I probably wouldn’t have donated if Sara Cox was raising for animal charities, because I personally prefer “human welfare” charities

I said I don’t agree with notion of sisterhood. It’s a tired trope to control women
Yes I’m judging it’s self evident, as are you, as are all other posters. The judgement ranges from she’s a warrior to its performative.

How about properly funding servuces through taxation so we don't need charities to feed children?

Charities should commission management report into the inequities within their tax system and how the super rich proportionately pay considerably less than they should . How the royal family play considerably less than they should and what the royal family take from the public They could then identify what the short falls are in health and social care provision. Having identified the inequality and shortfalls in the charities budgets, the royal family et al should be compelled to pay more so that the charities don’t have to go with a begging bowl for monies.
The charities currently to seek donations from the public. they have to put on a performative show of pain,fatigue and arduor. Currently a celebrity has to undergo gritty or arduous task to compel the public to make donations. The first point for donation should be the super rich, the royal family ,who do not pay their adequate contributions

however the conflict of interest is that many charities in fact have the royal family as patrons so they’re unlikely to criticise their patron when asking for additional donations. Charities shouldn’t associate themselves with the royal family. They shouldn’t disassociate themselves from them and directly ask that they pay fair taxes.

It’s disgusting in a prosperous country we top up health & charities with donations

what are we going to do about wealth inequality and the systemic privilege afforded to the super rich and royal family

This

What's about the charities that don't feed children?