to boycott BBC children in need

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And give my donations to nspcc and other children's charities.In fact, I will happily double my usual donations to other children's charities to show the BBC and any abusers that it is not acceptable. The BBC should be ashamed of itself, perhaps if they had more women in senior positions the Saville and other BBC 'stars' abuse would never have happened.

Anyway, I think it entirely inappropriate that BBC should collect any money for children until they can be sure there have been no further cover ups.

The problem with that is that lots of people give money to Children in Need and wouldn't automatically give the same money to some other charity if CiN didn't happen. So, the end result would be bad for children.

But boycott away if it makes you feel you're making an important point. Just as long as you still give the money to someone!

YANBU to give or not give to whatever charities you see fit.

"perhaps if they had more women in senior positions the Saville and other BBC 'stars' abuse would never have happened." - can you explain the logic of this?

There are actions that are absolutely not acceptable and should not have been allowed to happen and be repeated.

There was also a culture of sexism that was prevalent in the 70s and 80s - beautifully illustrated, for example, in Life on Mars, and we cannot judge actions of those times and compare them with how people are expected to behave today.

I've never given to cin. Their usp that all the money stays in this country is frankly offensive when 10,000 children a day die of hunger elsewhere in the world. Don't call it children in need if you don't really mean it IMHO.

Ephiny, the reason I said that was that interviews with Janet Street Porter and other employees from that time seem to suggest the BBC was very much a sexist, old boys club where there was no point reporting inappropriate behaviour.

Even now I think the BBC is very sexist, there are very few older women presenters. Strictly, with Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly gives me the creeps, I don't see many octogenarian prime time female presenters with male co hosts in their thirties...

I boycotted CIN a few years ago when I heard that certain presenters took a fee for doing it

The whole media is sexist.

As long as you also boycott other charities that gave js access to children and vulnerable adults, for example that story from the Nurse having spinal surgery reported in the Yorkshire paper, yanbu.

Don't know what I think about this!

Without Children In Need my daughter would have to have waited so much longer for a special needs buggy. Where we live you didn't get given them for free you had to buy them yourself. A grant of £200 from Pudsey made a huge difference to my daughters life. I give to them every year - only a little amount but I was and am so grateful for the money they gave.

I don't know how to feel about this.

Will they still do Children In Need this year?

Could another channel not take over given the circumstances/news? Then collecting money for children after all this would look really strange.

i boycott children in need every time because its a nightmare of non-entertainment. i don't mind giving to charity but i really don't want such crud on the television.

Bifocayclepath, can I ask how you got the grant? CIN turn down all individual children, was it via another charity? Lots of parents whose children needed private cancer treatment avoid CIN too for not helping their kids

Would like to boycott, however DC's school will do something and I don't want them to be the only children in the class not joining in

yabu
children like mine get help form CIN
you know disabled ones.

I'd rather give my money to CIN then the NSPCC anyday

I feel the same as weegiemum.
I hate the way the sell it nowadays, they keep emphasising British Children, it leaves a bad taste in my moth.
I don't give to it.

sadly it will be british children who will need charity due to the cuts

At one point, CiN paid the wages of just about every Children's Worker in Scottish Women's Aid refuges.

British children are very much in need.

To boycott CiN over JS is pointless.
As others have said however wrong it seems now sexual abuse allegations were not taken seriously anywhere in the 70's and 80's.
The life long harm it did to victims was not understood.

CiN does a great deal of good and gives a lot of fun and no small amount of education about their less fortunate peers to primary aged DCs. They can't and shouldn't know the situation.

Loads of charities Comic relief for starters do work abroad so that's totally it irrelevant.

(Personally I boycott the NSPCC. They have spent an insane amount bombarding me with leaflets since DD1 was born. I also don't support a total ban on smacking children.)

You won't give charity to British children LadyBeagleEyes??

Why do British children leave a bad taste in your mouth?

YABU. If the allegations about JS are true, enough children/young adults have suffered because of it. Why make more children and young adults suffer, if their charity is predominantly funded or supported by CiN? Its just making it worse.

I think it's an absolutely dreadful idea for the BBC to not do CiN in the current climate. Its just making things worse. "We've cocked up - so lets not do something good for thousands of people?" .

I boycott it every year. It's voluntary taxation to fund services the government should in my v humble opinion.

I don't much like the Children in need charity. I was shocked that quite a lot of the money goes to very affluent areas where the children are not at all in need. So I try and avoid it when I can and give to other charities that I like.