To dislike red nose day

[jdoe8]

Just seems to be people doing it for their own personal gain (even if that is just to feel good about themselves), more useless plastic that will end up in landfill and take ages to degrade and more junk food to a nation where 70% of adults are obese or overweight.

I wouldn't mind but its hard to avoid if you have kids, its pushed onto them both at school and in the media.

YANBU! On similar lines personally, I can't stand celebs going to the North Pole or whatever on some expensive, televised, environment damaging, self publicising trip of a lifetime and wanting us to give money to charity on the back of it.
I say, celebs stay at home, donate what the trip would have cost and we, the public will donate what we can, based on our own judgement, to our charity of our own choice.
Phew rant over !
I DO like choosing products or shops that will donate to charity if you buy/ use them.

Jdoe8
Having said that the malteesers thing sounds crap!!!!

But a lot of people will buy a red nose or donate a bit via their kids at school who might not ordinarily donate to charity so it probably does raise a lot of funds. Yes, it would be better if they could make it more environmentally friendly but at the end of the day the money they raise for good causes is greater than any costs in overheads. Im not getting the hate for something that raises money for charity. If you are happier to donate in other ways, just don't participate.

YADNBU. The whole thing is just a business. Manipulative, expensive, glossy business dressed up as charity.

I was a charity fundraiser for years. It's a big business! I think RND is great for giving children a sense of charity and community but I grew increasingly uncomfortable with the need to have expensive televised campaigns, celeb endorsements and lots of materials printed which is why I changed careers.

Worked with a lot of celebs. A lot genuinely care and do donate, others are hell on earth to work with. And it's not who you think is nice/nasty!

It helped fund my child's special school after school club which makes the kids very happy

And lots of other causes.

I hate when people in the fortunate position of not needing to benefit whinge about it being tedious and pointless.

Thankfully lots still give and it can manage to pkug the gap left by underfunding in UK for those who need it.

YaBVVU

Horrified as its sponsored by junk food!?

What a parallel world we live in

All charity and acts of kindness towards strangers are to a certain extent done to make the doer feel good about themselves.

And indeed so what?

My child feels pretty damn good about herself being able to take part in activities after school with support partly funded by Comic relief..

Sorry my comment was to OP - feeling good or whatever doesn't detract from the good that the charity does

I know :)

Junk food =cake sales obviously worra do people actually look into comic relief projects or are they just moaning about having to dress up their kids for school and the terrible waste of plastic noses. Charity like this might seem like a corporation but they do good yes some celebs might take part to raise their profile but the core celebs do seem to care.

And so what if people feel good about dressing daft for a day least it raises awareness

Big charities can make big changes. It requires a lot of administration.

Are people who give quietly to charity more worthy than a 7yr old giving their £ to school next friday ?

It was started to raise awareness and funds for the crisis in Ethiopia.

I think as an acute, one-off things for a very specific purpose it was a great idea.

However, year on year it just doesn't work. I think people are unsure of exactly what they're donating to. I also don't think there's much accountability of exactly where the £1,047,083,706 has gone over the last 30 years.

Interesting

The world needs people who give quietly to charities and also those who make a big noise about it and raise awareness.

I guess people don't like it as it makes them feel guilty, sad or uncomfortable. But sometimes we have to feel those emotions.

Thanks for fighting against something which helps my kid :(

Sorry i was addressing WhoDo

It's not year on year for a start, it's at least two years between RNDs.

The charity uses a number of managed funds which invests that money on the charity's behalf, including in the stock market.

Panorama has learnt that between 2007 and 2009, some of these investments, amounting to millions of pounds, appear to contradict several of its core aims.

Charities are under a duty to invest funds which they intend for future use, it's pretty hard to be totally whiter than white when making investments across a wide range of funds.

If you want to know exactly where the money has gone, read the annual reports and accounts which are freely available to anyone on the Charity Commission website.

Yes Gracie you are right silly noses and big quiet donations are the same thing imo . I do understand peoples frustrations and suspicion of corporate charities though

But they're committed to helping children affected by conflict on the one hand whilst also investing in arms companies on the other.

I don't think it's hard for those with a say in investments to say that the money should absolutely not be invested anywhere near, for example, arms companies.