Every Year It's The Same.

[garinda]

...then I suggest you admit you were wrong.

[Tealeaf]

Garinda, please give us a breakdown of the the £1.2million. The BBC is an organisation that cannot even be trusted with allowing children to name a pet on it's flagship kiddies programme. Do you really think for one moment that payments are not being made to these celebrity employees? Get out of Ossy and into the real world.

[AccyLass]

If they see they need paying for a fund raising event like this, then they are not they type of person that should be hosting something like Children In Need

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

All BBC employees appearing in this event get paid. It is part of their contract.

No they don't, as the B.B.C. stated in their letter. Fact.

The employees who don't 'appear' in the show, such as producers, researchers, electricans, wardrobe assistants, etc. etc., will be paid.

For seven hours of television it may be the case that the production costs are actually less than that of a normal Friday's television.

After all Jonathon Ross gets paid £6 million per year, which when costed out per hour, which is Friday night show was, and taking into account his other B.B.C. shows, works out very costly. Plus there's the fees for his Four Puffs, hospitality and fees for his guests, and there's still another six hours to account for.

Children in Need might actually be a cheap night for the Beeb. It certainly looks cheap.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Get out of Ossy and into the real world.

I've been to Church, and the dodgy bits of the East End.

The realism was just too much to bear.

[Gayle]

Take a look on Children in Need website.

To summarise
Every penny raised goes towards helping disadvantaged children. They invest money and that income is used for operating costs. Last year they raised £37m.

BBC - Children in Need - About Us - Who You've Helped

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by West Ender

I can't feel quite the same about it since I learned that Mr Wogan gets paid for his charity stint.

When that was revealed the other year it was an eye opener for me and my opinion of him plummeted.

Which raises the question just how much did Geldof contribute in cash out of his own pocket? And all the stars making those records. How much cash did they give? Oh! I know! They gave their time and voices – so that’s alright then. And Lenny Henry and all the others encouraging us to buy red noses? What was their cash contribution?

Prince Charles is patron of a number of charities but just how much of his own cash does he contribute?

The point that I am making is that it is all very well these celebrities encouraging the general public to give, give and give but they too should be seen to be giving cash not just their time.

[emamum]

I think the idea is that their time costs money but they dont charge for it.......

Its like an orchestra/choir playing outside a supermarket to collect money for charity at christmas...

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by emamum

I think the idea is that their time costs money but they dont charge for it.......

Its like an orchestra/choir playing outside a supermarket to collect money for charity at christmas...

For me fund raisers should lead by example even if they are giving their time and expertise for free.

A starving child in Africa cannot use this time and expertise to buy some food.

[emamum]

People are more likely to give money to the charity when prompted to by their favourite celeb

If you went in tv and asked people to donate money to africa i doubt anyone would bother, its different when its someone famous.... you also get something such as a song/show from the celebs as well..

[stevie96]

Originally Posted by Less

Here we are again, at the climax of Children in need, it's Friday, Sir Terence will yet again be encouraging people to make complete fools of themselves all in the aid of Charity.


Now hang on, before you start sharpening your axes in preparation to cut me down to size, let me first of all state, I am all for helping children.

However this year will be the same as last year and all the years back to the beginning of this farce.

spoken with that cheeky little lilt of his Sir Terry will be cajoling us all to beat the amount we donated last year, get out your credit cards and pay until it hurts, lets make this a great amount that we need.

Why do we need it? Children are still starving in Africa, children are still dying of neglect here, it's not more money we need,


It's, more compassion, more care, more love.

Yes I do agree, let's make this a record breaking year for 'Children In Need', let's all actually give a damn!

your right we need more compassion,lets not just satisfy our consience by giving money, but keep alert to what going on in our own comunity and like you say compasion ,care ,love

[katex]

Originally Posted by stevie96

your right we need more compassion,lets not just satisfy our consience by giving money, but keep alert to what going on in our own comunity and like you say compasion ,care ,love

All very admirable, and I am very optimistic that there is still loads and loads of this in the U.K., but funds are still required for specialist equipment, teaching, treatment for our children in the U.K. that are suffering. I don't care a tuppenny whether the celebs do it for their own kudos or not ... sure they have genuine compassion too, as long as it brings that money in to help so what !!

[jaysay]

As some one who has worked for both local and national charities, I have to say the local charities are more fulfilling. I got more pleasure as secretary of the Ossy Youth Support Group in the late 80s early 90s than acting as secretary for the Hyndburn branch of The National Asthma Campaign (now Asthma UK) The local charity was about raising money and awareness for young people, something that actually cost all the members money out of their own pockets. The NAC being a national charity had rules and regs, with nearly all money raised having to go to the London head office. The fact the officers in London were on salaries to run the charity didn't really sit well with me, I would have much rather local people benefit from the money we raised.