Comic Relief: Worst since 2007

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The Times reports that Comic Relief is set to have it's worst year since 2007.

This is being blamed on the David Lammy "White Saviour" debacle, but I'm sure that it also doesn't help that they've just given £190,000 to Allsorts - the Brighton & Hove charity that supplies school packs with case studies in transitioning children as young as six.

Parent of a Six-Year Old:
My child’s primary school have been fantastic with her transition and were very supportive right from the word go.

The BBC has reported on the £190,000 Comic Relief Allsorts donation with a video story of a teen wandering around the Museum of Transology (I kid you not).

MeAgainAgain Comic Relief decided to feature a 'Woman of the Week' highlighting 'stunning and brave' women whose 'stunningness and bravery' was under reported and under valued. Their first and, I believe, only 'Woman of the Week' was Lili Elbe the TW the film The Danish Girl was about.

There was a thread on here about it at the time (around November 2018 I think). Comic Relief ignored any and all requests for an explanation as to their choice, nor did they care one iota for how insulting their choice was to many, many women. Then again, with 'stunning and brave' as the sole criteria for choice and the fact that only TW can be 'stunning and brave' their choice was inevitable.

Oh yes I remember that.

Male women are def much better than female women. Female women have always been a bit shit really. Good we have this new better sort now.

I also donated to Vancouver Rape Relief. I've refused to do CR for a while now. Fortunately the DC's school haven't got involved but if they had I wouldn't be supporting it.

Do not give to Comic Relief and have always preferred to give to charities of my choosing as and when I decide (I always give a large donation at Xmas - foodbanks in previous years).

This year, however, spurred on by the knowledge of what CR are doing with the money people give - such as giving to organisations encouraging the medication and mutilation of children - I gave on the day to the Vancouver centre and a dog rescue charity.

Agree with LangCleg. I don't want to give to a large organisation that then decides where my money goes especially if some of the money then goes to trans ideology propaganda, I prefer to give directly to my chosen organisations. Watching comic relief or CiN is also very boring.

Ooh, and Transgender Trend!

I happened to put BBC1 on when the first part of the 'Four weddings' bit came on so stated to watch it.

I was embarrassed because it was so crap. Richard Curtis seems to me to have had one good idea in his life.

I'd forgotten the "woman of the week" farce. Yes, that probably had an effect too as I'd decided before it started that it wasn't getting my money.
That sounds illegal Margot33. Schools shouldn't be deciding which charities parents and children support. There's charitable giving and there's coercion.

So man who had operations and a fetish is the only person from history CR could find to be woman of the week ?

That's it in a nutshell MrsJayy.

Woman of the week changed my mind about giving. And as l am normally one of the people responsible for choosing and organising charity bashes in our fitness group l didn’t bother doing it this year.
Nobody else jumped up to do it so that’s a loss of £680 from last year.
I have suggested a more focus based approach to charity giving and it has excited people, we are choosing a local charity and are planning our sponsored events around that.
I think the same about Children In Need so l won’t be organising anything for that either. Our group want to see where the money is spent now.

I have worked with several C I N projects ime if it wasn't for the grants ma y children would be worse.

Many children would be worse off*

I generally dislike sponsored events as it is trying to persuade other people to give to the charity of your choice. I'll sponsor family children but am not keen on sponsoring adults, especially as they're usually doing stuff they want to do anyway. I'd rather everyone just did the fitness activities they wanted and gave their own money to the charities they want if they want to link their activity/ diet/ facial hair to charitable giving.

Agree that Children in Need do good work but we are deciding to focus firstly on Child Poverty charities in our borough.

It's got nothing to do with allsorts (that's your personal beef / trans whinge wedge in). People are just sick of patronising rich stars asking for money. You cant go through an ad break these days without a charity plea.

It's got nothing to do with allsorts

Prove that that has nothing to do with it....

Both CIN and Comic Relief are grant givers. If you donate then you need to accept that the projects they fund may not chime with your personal philanthropy.
I'd rather donate to a named charity.
I lost all my respect for CR after one film they showed a Few years ago which I thought crossed the line.

I think the white saviour comment meant many people thought the implication was that white people shouldnt give money to countries with black populations as white countries trying to"help" black ones had colonial overtones.

To be perfectly honest I live in a socio economically deprived town in northern England, and the homeless crisis is out of control, I think fundraising pointed in that direction or impoverished single mothers etc the disabled would garner more support.

They raised £63m which is almost £1 per person in the UK which is a massive amount.

I think that there's a limit on the amount that they can raise and considering how many other charity events go on- Sports Relief, Children in Need etc that they are lucky to get any support with this archaic event. It's a relief that my kids are not in primary so I'm not pressured into supporting them any longer. I think that they get a lot of donations that would be better spent by local charities with more well-defined aims.

Yes it's massively out of touch with the public and what is happening on the streets.

I agree that Comic Relief etc would make more money if money went to UK causes only. I have heard a lot of resentment about government foreign aid and Comic Relief is a sort of extension of that.

Personally I will try to prioritise local charities for donations and fund raising.

I'm not sure it's to do with David Lammy / Allsorts to be honest, but more to do with the public feeling the financial effects of years worth of austerity and stagnant wages relative to the cost of living. I get pissed off more and more each year that I get asked to donate money (when I'm struggling), by celebrities who have millions in the bank.

The celebrity angle is tiresome. When celebs go to Africa I assume that they visit for the poor for the cameras but sleep in a hotel at night so it's no more than a glorified holiday. We have seen images of extreme poverty in Africa so it's questionable whether we need to see more. The airfare of celebrity plus technical crew would be an enormous number of meals or other necessities for someone who needs it.
Agree about people with millions telling people with less money to donate. What have they done to raise money? Have they contributed money or anything?