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Children in Need

November 2023

  • ‘If someone is staring, it’s all right – they might know me off the telly’ … Lenny Rush.

    Lenny Rush on his Bafta, swearing and living his best life: ‘I love being little. I’m lucky’

    Over the last few years, he has become one of the most prominent young actors in Britain. Now he is presenting Children in Need. He discusses stardom, stereotyping and his superpower

November 2021

  • Owain Wyn Evans

    Owain Wyn Evans: ‘I wanted to change the perception of who can be a drummer’

    The BBC weather presenter and charity fundraiser on his pop music dreams and why he always resisted putting ‘a lid on it at all’

November 2020

  • Joe Wicks leaving BBC Broadcasting House after completing his 24-hour workout for Children in Need.

    Joe Wicks completes 24-hour workout for BBC Children in Need

  • Kylie Minogue performing on The Graham Norton Show this month.

    Kylie, Cher, Robbie Williams and more team up for Children in Need single

October 2019

  • Vladimir Putin on holiday

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Putin, punch-ups and propaganda – it’s Russian TV!

  • Olivia Colman attends the BFI Luminous Fundraising Gala at the Roundhouse, London, 1 October 2019.

    Olivia Colman to cover Portishead for Children in Need compilation

November 2018

  • Frances Ryan

    Children in Need is wonderful, but we shouldn’t need Pudsey to feed our children

    Frances Ryan
    Poverty is a political issue and airbrushing its causes does a disservice to the very families who are in need

February 2017

  • Esther Rantzen

    Esther Rantzen calls for Children In Need-style fundraising for older people

    Campaigner suggests nationwide ‘Golden Day’ fundraiser – but admits lack of interest from broadcasters

November 2016

  • PUDSEY BEAR, CHILDREN IN NEED CHARITY BBC PHOTOCALL FOR TODDLERS IN TRAINING, BRITAIN - AUG 1994

    Confessions of a charity professional
    As a charity fundraiser, I don't need a lecture from inexpert trustees

    Anonymous
  • David Brindle

    Children in Need shows why charities need to be fully open about costs

    David Brindle

November 2015

  • Dermot O'Leary with Tess Daly on Children in Need

    Children in Need breaks fundraising record with £37m

    Dermot O’Leary stood in for long-standing host Terry Wogan on blockbusting BBC fundraiser owing to health issues
  • C-3PO, Warwick Davis, Terry Wogan and R2-D2 in BBC Children In Need’s Star Wars sketch.

    TV and radio blog
    Children in Need's Star Wars sketch brings the force to TV ... again

    From Richard Pryor to the 1978 holiday show and the notorious Ewok movies, there’s a long history of Star Wars TV specials
  • Sir Terry Wogan and Pudsey Bear

    TV and radio blog
    Children in Need: we'll miss Terry Wogan but we're in safe hands with Dermot O'Leary

    Presenting the BBC’s annual charity marathon is one of the hardest acts on television, so it’s good news that while Wogan recuperates he is being replaced by the very capable dancing Dermot

October 2015

  • Lord Sugar with two stormtroopers for Children in Need Star Wars-inspired special.

    TV and radio blog
    BBC Children in Need 2015 to use the force with a new Star Wars sketch

    The annual fundraising show will this year feature C-3PO, R2-D2 and Warwick Davis in a Star Wars-inspired sketch as BBC joins with Disney and Lucasfilm

November 2014

  • Tom and Jerry join BBC Children In Need's mascot Pudsey backstage at Elstree studios

    BBC Children in Need raises £32.6m

    Appeal’s presenter and life president, Sir Terry Wogan, says he is ‘astounded’ at public’s generosity in raising record sum
  • The Making of God Only Knows

    BBC unveils behind the scenes film of God Only Knows campaign

    BBC documentary goes behind the scenes of star-studded film featuring One Direction and Pharrell Williams

  • Children in Need in 2013 raised a record breaking £31.1m on the night of broadcast

    Datablog
    Children in Need: numbers visualised

    From the total donations raised by the annual event to where your money goes, here is your guide to the night

October 2014

  • S Club 7 (left to right) Jo O'Meara, Paul Cattermole, Tina Barrett, Jon Lee, Rachel Stevens, Bradley McIntosh and Hannah Spearritt

    Music blog
    S Club 7 reunion: testing the power of pop nostalgia

  • God Only Knows stars

    BBC unveils all-star version of God Only Knows, 17 years after Perfect Day

November 2013

  • Typhoon Haiyan volunteers

    BBC Children in Need will not donate funds to typhoon Haiyan victims

    Charity says money raised will go to UK projects as Save the Children warns of risk of trafficking for orphans in Philippines
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