What do you think red nose day

[Domjolly]

With each minute of tv costing so much the expense spent on come hell or high water eg the support team they even had a helicopter just wondering

Would you not just have more funds by not doing the show and just donating the money it would otherwise cost to make it

I love red nose day do somting for money and all that its always been my thought

I dip in and out of the show. I remember watching one of the films last year and being in absolute floods and floods of tears

Our school does some fund raising - mufti-day/disco so I tend to donate that way, we probably wouldn't donate to the individual charities to be honest

My husband has just said he would donate for Claudia Winkleman to trim her fringe rather than Jessie J to shave hers.

Is claudia winkleman pregnant again? Or is that dress hanging badly?

Yes, I do think we probably ought to be watching it in order to educate the DCs, it's just that I can't stand all the celeb stuff that goes with it.

It's taught my children how lucky they are in a way I never could. DS1 (8) had asked if he can take some of his savings out of the bank to donate.

Without the spectacle, people wouldn't watch, it wouldn't be as high profile, so people wouldn't donate.

Obviously.

I remember watching a film with DD1 about baby Nicholas last time round. That film and that baby is seared into my memory. DD1 still talks about it 2 years on. It taught her a lesson far better than I could

Do you not think that doing masterchef and having rich white people gagging over 'bad food' is in bad taste (pardon the pun) to try to raise money for starving children? I want to donate but not if it will pay for lenny's helicopter and five star hotel. I'm conflicted over this one..

Would you not just have more funds by not doing the show and just donating the money it would otherwise cost to make it

Shhhh, if nobody states the bleeding obvious than we can all sit and indulge ourselves and think about how charitable we are.

It's rather like those sponsored skydive/etc things that go round in the office, if the person just didn't do it and gave the money it cost to organise to the charity themselves half the time the charity would be better off. But there's no glory and "look what a top person i am" in quietly donating money.