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Children in need 2013
The document provides information about the annual Children In Need charity event in the United Kingdom. It discusses the various events leading up to the main telethon on a Friday night each year, including the Rickshaw Challenge and the Children In Need Rocks concert organized by Gary Barlow. The history of Children In Need is traced back to 1927 and it notes some of the headline acts and appeals that have helped raise over £31 million for charity in 2013.
Children in need 2013
- 1. Children In Need2013
- 2. Leading up tomain event Rickshaw chalenge- The One Show Children In Need Rocks- held every year by Gary Barlow. Children In Need LIVE- main event of the year on a Friday night from 7:30pm-2 in the morning of the Saturday.
- 3. CONTENTS PAGE 1: EVENTSLEADING UP TO CHILDREN IN NEED 2: HISTORY OF CHILDREN IN NEED 3: CHILDREN IN NEED APPEALS 4: MAIN APPEALS SINCE 1980 5: NAME OF PUSDEY THE BEAR 6: ACTS ON THE SHOW 7: CHILDREN IN NEED ROCKS 8: FINAL TOTALS
- 4. History of ChildrenIn Need Children In Need started with a short broadcast on Christmas Day 1927. The response of the telethon was brilliant and raised £1,143. The first ever television broadcast was in 1955 Children’s Christmas hour appeal presented by Sooty and Harry Corbett. The television and radio broadcast at Christmas ran up to 1979 raising a total of £625,836
- 5. Children In Needappeals In 1978, Terry Wogan made his first apperance as a Children In Need presenter. In 1980 the appeal was broadcast on BBC One in a new telethon format, hosted by Terry with Sue Lawley and Esther Rantzen. It captured the public's imagination to such an extent that the donations increased dramatically and broke the million mark for the very first time
- 6. The Main appealsfrom 1980 After the first live main appeal in 1980, Children In Need was born. Terry Wogan has been the main presenter ever since it started but he has been joined by a line up of presenters called Andi Peters, Fearne Cotton, Joanna Lumley, Gaby Rosalind and Natasha Kaplinsky.
- 7. Where did thename of the bear Pusdey come from? Pudsey was designed by Joanna Ball, a BBC graphics designer, who named him after the West Yorkshire town where she was born.
- 8. Children In Need13 acts This year’s offical Children In Need single was made by Ellie Goulding by singing How Do You love Me. JLS and MCFLY did battle of the boybands One Direction singing The Cast of Matillda and many others Eastenders dancing and new studio from Elstree
- 9. Children In NeedRocks In 2009, Gary Barlow decided to raise a concert in Children In Need by having many different acts singing live on BBC. The events have come from London Hammersmith Arena, The Royal Albert Hall and many others. This has been a great concert for people to watch and enjoy on the BBC.
- 11. Finals totals 2009: £20,309,747[ 2010:£18,098,199 2011:£26,332,334 2012:£26,757,446 2013: £31.142,968