Children in need is on tonight on BBC 1, what have you lot been doing to raise money?

Working.

Very funny...

Well due to work i've not done anything this year, but i have had my head bleached, hair dyed blue, and a haircut that had to be seen to be believed (Dave knows the one i mean) so i dont feel too bad missing this year.

You been doing anything flapjack?

my child was in need for good old 'daddy time'(as usual lol) so charity was at home, although i did buy some cakes that the learning support students at work, made for children in need, so i bought some on the understanding that if you alienated the fat and sugar content, they were actually good for you.
and the money went to a good cause

Edited at 00:32 Sat 17/11/07 (GMT)

I paid me £2 to go to school in me own clothes, then paid £2 to watch the teachers sumo wrestle at lunch!

I didn't even know it was on again till it came on the tele.

I personaly dont agree with it (in a sense). Begging for your money shouldn't be put on the TV and the pressure put on people to do so is wrong. I'm not saying helping children in need is wrong, far from it, but I think the money could easily be made in other ways. (The first Eurofighter jet cost over £18,000,000,000 to produce..why bother?).

Then other donations can be from the choice of people wanting to donate, not being pressured into it.

Come on squeezy....

You were a child once, you would want ppl to donate money to you if you had a reakky bad childhood...

And they can, but they shouldn't be pressured into it.

Lmao!

How is a TV show being pressuring?


It is merely a brilliant form of propoganda

Edited at 17:37 Sat 17/11/07 (GMT)

Possibly

I actually agree mate.
Ok, it's for a good cause but people should not be forced to do things if they don't want to.
I did contribute to it, if it wasn't for the advertising.

Yeah, but how do you like children sitting around having a hard childhood....

I actually thinnk its good ppl are being made aware, and being "forced" into donating!

well said mate if there was no enforcement then odds are people wouldn't donate as much!

If anything at all...

I've been putting coppers into the big buckrts in the supermarkets.

lol

Every little helps

If ignorance is bliss the majority of people who've posted on this thread are in heaven........

I'm very saddened............

It Just shows the mass generosity of the people and the lengths people will go too to help children.
Of course its begging, but its done in a high spirited and humanly way and no one gives a chuff if some people percieve it as that....we are all entitlled to an opinion.
Its also another way of being proud to be british, what other nation does charitable events on such a scale and as many as we do??????

Negativity helps nobody

I do many fundraising events myself, 40 mile hikes, helping to organise bike rides, bag packing at supermarkets etc.

This is from me wanting to help people and I do it throughout each year.

This might be why i've got such a negative attitude towards the children in need day, I feel I do my bit and don't like people trying to make me feel guilty that I dont help out enough.

Of course raising awareness is a good thing and the way people do help is brilliant. It's just not really the way I like to go about helping out in the world.