Owain’s Children In Need challenge - feel a bit sorry for him!

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Anyone following Owain’s Children In Need biking challenge? He doesn’t seem to be bringing in the donations that we have seen in previous years. He’s obviously working hard and out in all weathers, up some long steep hills, bits of him are hurting, it can’t be an easy challenge, but he’s only on £278k the last update I heard. I am sure Sara Cox was on much more by day 2 and of course raised a staggering 11 million in total once everything has been counted. Is it that people just cannot afford to donate in our current cost of living crisis (completely understandable) or is he not such a well known/liked character? I hope he’s not feeling too down about it.

I'd guess it's because he's not so popular. He probably had realistic expectations before accepting the challenge, so I doubt he feels disappointed to have raised what's a really decent amount.

I hope so. I agree it’s still a great amount but it would be hard not to compare. Hope he’s doing OK.

Wait til tomorrow or Thursday when he’s so exhausted he’s a bit weepy , that’s when the donations will pour in
Cruel , but true

Yes you could well be right. He’s been so upbeat so far, maybe that will change

It’s early days, he’ll be fine. It’s not a competition in popularity, it’s fundraising enterprise and it’s only day 2.

Yes, early days.

He is great, and such a difficult challenge for a fantastic cause.

At some point donations are not going to top the year prior, surely the money raised can’t keep increasing, but who knows if it is this year.

I think Owain raised over a million with his last challenge, 24 hour drumming.

I will be donating later in the week.

I’ll wait for all the multimillionaire celebs/actors/musicians etc etc etc to tell me to donate!
although I’m impressed with Owain so far… I’m sure he’ll do well!

Unlike Sara, who is funny, well liked, talented and good at her job - he is not. He did a bit of drumming during lockdown, so I don’t think people are that engaged with him

Also I can’t be the only person to have turned off Radio 2 this week because I don’t want to listen to them checking in on him every 5 minutes?

Ah I didn’t see his drumming challenge, that was a great achievement! Hopefully things will pick up.

I agree they are really pushing it on Radio 2, I just catch the highlights on Insta!

I don't give to children in need. After all the paedos running around the BBC.....nah!

OFGS - tenuous link to deprive vulnerable children.

MN must be quids in through so much traffic linked to the ex celebrities and their SA, there is so much chat about it….but not donating to CIN is the most bizarre take yet.

Yeah definitely didn’t intend for this thread to be about that!

I wound prefer people to do something useful if they want sponsorship not cycling challenges etc. Anyway I've never heard of this Owain chap.

I really like Owain, he seems like a decent sort. I loved his drumming challenge.

See if you can watch it, it's great!

I am seriously off Radio 2 at the moment. I just can't find anyone I want to listen to and as I can't abide Gary Davies, it's safest to just not put it on because you never know when he's going to crop up.

But in the last two days I've thought "I'll see if it's safe to listen to R2" about 4 or 5 times ... and every single time I've switched on they've been talking about Owain and his challenge, or talking to him, or playing a recording of someone who benefits from CIN. So it gets switched right back off again!

I stopped listening to Radio 2 several years ago.

I didn’t even know he was doing it! A bit of publicity might help.

True

You sound like a kind member of society, with a thorough understanding of how charities - particularly children’s charities- are funded.

I didn’t know he was doing it either and I don’t know who he is! I went and looked at the link and don’t recognise him. Don’t listen to radio two anymore 🤷‍♀️.

Surely Sara was the anomaly being way more famous. I’ve never heard of this guy.

Homes under the hammer is not the same with him on it.
It's a big challenge, but he's not that famous, however last year the donations were not very high for the first couple of days.

I've actually gone to Radio 3 now. Radio 2 has gone awful. I miss Scott Mills and Trevor Nelson. (Scott Mills indiscretions aside).

He’s not getting as much publicity as Sara did (I don’t listen to Radio 2) - Sara was all over the other BBC stations, newspaper and BBC websites, I’ve only heard mention of Owain once at the weekend. I like him and always have done but not really sure where I first got to know of him, he’s just been a media personality I’ve been aware of for a few years, I follow him on instagram becaause I like his taste in suits and he seems like a nice chap but he hasn’t popped up on there this week either, not in my feed anyway.