BBC's Children in Need beats last year's total on the night

Fundraising | Kirsty Weakley | 19 Nov 2012

Friday night’s Children in Need telethon raised £26,757,446, an increase of more than £400,000 on the night in 2011.

Last year the appeal night total was £26.3m with a final total of £46.9m. This year is the 33rd appeal and the total is expected to rise when funds collected from events that took place is received.

David Ramsden, chief executive of Children in Need said: “Tonight’s total is phenomenal. It is amazing that people across the UK have once again come together to raise such a massive sum.”

Sir Terry Wogan, BBC Children in Need lifetime president, hosted the show alongside Fearne Cotton, Tess Daly and Nick Grimshaw. Girls Aloud recorded this year’s Children in Need fundraising single, 'Something New', and performed twice on the night. One Direction, Little Mix, Paloma Faith, Leona Lewis, Stooshe, Example, Ellie Goulding and Charlotte Church also performed on the night.

In the lead-up to the night Radio 2 raised £4m and the One Show’s Rickshaw challenge raised £1.1m. Corporate fundraising partners this year included Asda, Boots, Costco, B&Q, Greggs and BT.

Children in Need makes grants to charities working with disadvantaged children in the UK and currently supports around 2,600 projects.

This year's show came in the shadow of the sexual abuse scandal involving late presenter Jimmy Savile and other high-profile figures, in which the BBC has been implicated. Sir Terry alluded to ongoing investigations, saying: “Here at Children in Need we know that children are vulnerable, the news in recent weeks been an awful reminder of how true that can be.”

Last month the charity’s former chairman, Sir Roger Jones, revealed that disgraced TV presenter Jimmy Savile had been banned from involvement with the charity because he was “creepy”.

Comments

[Cancel] | Reply to:

Name *

Email *

Organisation

Job Title

Comments *

Verification *

* Please read our Community Standards

Close »

Community Standards

The civilsociety.co.uk community and comments board is intended as a platform for informed and civilised debate.

We hope to encourage a broad range of views, however, there are standards that we expect commentators to uphold. We reserve the right to delete or amend any comments that do not adhere to these standards.

We welcome:

Robust but respectful debate
Strongly held opinions
Intelligent relevant discussion
The sharing of relevant experiences
New participants

We will not publish:

Rude, threatening, offensive, obscene or abusive language, or links to such material
Links to commercial organisations or spam postings. The comments board is not an advertising platform
The posting of contact details for yourself or others
Comments intended for malicious purpose or mindless abuse
Comments purporting to be from another person or organisation under false pretences
Gratuitous criticism, commentary or self-promotion
Any material which breaches copyright or privacy laws, or could be considered libellous
The use of the comments board for the pursuit or extension of personal disputes

Be aware:

Views expressed on the comments board are left at users’ discretion and are in no way views held or supported by Civil Society Media
Comments left by others may not be accurate, do not rely on them as fact
You may be misunderstood - sarcasm and humour can easily be taken out of context, try to be clear

Please:

Enjoy the opportunity to express your opinion and respect the right of others to express theirs
Confine your remarks to issues rather than personalities

Together we can keep our community a polite, respectful and intelligent platform for discussion.