Children In Need - How much have you donated?

Participant said:
Looking after children is the government's job. I already give to children in need through my taxes.
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£0.
I make a heft donation to the charity of taxman every month. With income tax, NIC, pension, student loan, vat, fuel duty, VED, booze duty and council tax I have half my wage stolen off me each month.
I have no idea where it goes but it certainly isn't spent on me.

I am open to charitable causes, but feel begging on the TV with some crap sob story is as annoying as the X Factor program.
I recently donated some money to someone who ran a marathon for a very ill person at work as I felt the cause was worthy. I'm not giving up my hard earned cash because someone is dressed up a bear when I'm not doing much socially at the minute due to bills being tight.
 
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Does anyone else take issue to the whole thing Chris Evans has been doing all week on R2?

Imo he's alienated most of his listeners by appealing to people who have hundreds of thousands to bid for trips to monaco etc.

I may be a wee bit jealous but surely it would have been fairer to say do a raffle and charge £20 a ticket and give people which dont have such huge disposable imcome the chance to win?
 
Nope, and this is why...

He [Terry Wogan] is reported to be the only celebrity paid for his participation in Children in Need, having received a fee every year since 1980 (£9,065 in 2005). Wogan, however, has stated that he would "quite happily do it for nothing" and that he "never asked for a fee". The BBC stated that the fee had "never been negotiated". Wogan's fee has been paid from BBC resources and not from the Children in Need charity fund.[23] There is no record, however, of Wogan ever having repaid his fee from previous years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Wogan#Children_in_Need
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atpbx said:
That doesn't make any sense.

Footballers generate huge amounts of cash for the companies they work for and are rewarded for it.

Why should they give half their money away?

I've never understood this argument.

Let's all hate the rich for doing nothing but being better at earning money than we are waaaaah.
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Lol.... For a start, I said a third not half. Or even just the interest. Read what I said.

They earn more money than the could possibly need. Footballers are greedy idiots, they get paid gross amounts of money that they quite frankly do t deserve.

I don't hate the rich at all. Anyone who actually works for a living should quite rightly earn money from it. They are rich because idiot spay inflated prices to watch people play what is essentially a hobby. The whole game is a load of bs in my eyes.

What I don't understand is how people thing they should be paid millions a year for kicking a ball around when there are people who genuinely deserve that money but can't get it, or can't earn it in doing real job.
 
asim18 said:
Are you referring to children in need or Children in Need?

Children in Need is just a trademark. Doesn't literally mean children which are in need.

I watched about 5 mins of it and this is what I saw...

Well off kid went to France on awesome skiing holiday.
Kid slipped banged his head.
Kid went in coma.
Kid later died.
Parents crying.
Family home looks well off, I don't see any children in need....

"What possible "need" could this family have?" I was wondering throughout the whole brainwashing piece.... Turns out they need a counsellor who makes special house calls. Just LOL.


Get real. **** "Children in Need". If you really care about ill children go here: http://www.dec.org.uk

Or you can donate to 'Children in Need' and keep a house call counsellor's salary paid. Your choice.
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I thought the help the two 'butterfly' children had in their very short life looked worthwhile and if CiN help support places like this, then good. But yes, the guy that rode in front of a car? Not so much. To be fair it looked like the kid's dad put in most of the 'work' anyway.
 
Not many places you can say what you really think about stuff like this than on net
People really judge when you don't want to give after they stand there with sponsor for m
 
Company I started working for this year hosted 140 lines to take donations, so I was working till 2am helping co-ordinate, even on the phone taking donations. I donated via corporate raffles and building fund raisers but that was it. Was a long day working 8am-2am but great vibe.

:)
 
£0.20 I was tricked into giving with my Pizza Hut order last night.

They didn't even ask if I wanted to donate, it just appeared in the basket. I removed it on principal only for it to reappear once I had completed payment :mad:
 
marc2003 said:
what exactly must a child do to earn your respect? :D
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I donated nothing I am afraid. one because I fell asleep and two because when I saw a part where a child who was being taken for cycle lessons. The people doing the lessons seem to charge £25 a hour.
 
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