BBC Children in Need 2017 was a runaway success, with all-star guests and a record amount of £60.7 million raised. Here's the total from the end of the night and which presenters and acts appeared... When was Children in Need 2017? This year's Children in Need took place on Friday, November 17 at 7:30pm on BBC1. The money donated is used to change the lives of disadvantaged children and young people in the UK. To date the charity event has raised more than £890 million to help make a difference in the lives of the children who needed it. On the website they write: "We are currently supporting around 2,400 projects that are working with children facing a range of disadvantages. "These include poverty and deprivation; disabled young people and children who have been the victims of abuse or neglect." What was the total raised? A grand total of £60.7 million was raised beating last year's record comfortably. Who presented Children In Need 2017 with Graham Norton? This year's … [Read more...] about How much did Children in Need 2017 raise and who were the presenters and acts?
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BBC’s Children in Need announces 2017 fundraising figure
BBC’s Children in Need announces 2017 fundraising figure BelfastTelegraph.co.uk BBC Children in Need raised more than £60 million in its latest charity drive. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/bbcs-children-in-need-announces-2017-fundraising-figure-37087467.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/article37087464.ece/2f893/AUTOCROP/h342/bpanews_c9679e1c-90ce-42d2-84b4-c0e6df1e46c1_1 Email BBC Children in Need raised more than £60 million in its latest charity drive. The charity has confirmed the total funds raised in the 2017 appeal which saw performances from Katie Melua, Rita Ora and Sam Smith in its annual show. Thanking the British public for their fundraising efforts, Children in Need announced that £60.7 million was raised for charitable causes across the UK last year. More than £50 million was raised on the night of Pudsey the bear’s annual appeal show alone. Celebrities joined the … [Read more...] about BBC’s Children in Need announces 2017 fundraising figure
Suffolk Artlink sends in the clown doctors to East Anglian hospitals as Children in Need day approaches
PUBLISHED: 10:58 14 November 2017 Sheena Grant Suffolk Artlink's Clown Doctors at the EACH (East Anglian Children's Hospice). Picture: Warren Page. Archant Medical doctors are a must when it comes to treating us for serious illness but they’re not always a bundle of laughs. And laughter is an important medicine too. As Friday’s Children in Need fundraising day approaches, there’s no better time to bring on the Clown Doctors... Children interact with Suffolk Artlink's Clown Doctors. Picture: Warren Page Thanks to funding from Children in Need you could find yourself face to face with a doctor with a difference in children’s wards in hospitals and hospices across East Anglia. Dressed in traditional doctors’ white coats, Suffolk Artlink’s team of Clown Doctors can be identified by their jolly red noses and colourful clowning regalia. Instead of stethoscopes, Drs Dizzy, Guitarrr, Mischief and Fidget might be carrying musical instruments and … [Read more...] about Suffolk Artlink sends in the clown doctors to East Anglian hospitals as Children in Need day approaches
Warm clothing urgently sent to hill children in need – Social affair
A fund namely “Tro ngheo vung cao” (Poor hill students) sent out an urgent message on January 24 to call for donations of winter clothing, and after 24 hours, it had raised more than 900 million VND and received about 5,000 cold-weather clothes and 4,000 pairs of boots. The donations were dispatched to Hoang Su Phi district in northern Ha Giang province and Bat Xat district of northern Lao Cai province for children in need. The fund plans to expand its campaign and send help to even more hill children. On January 26, a volunteer group approached a mountainous area in central Thanh Hoa province, near the border with Laos, to provide aid to children there. Donations can be sent via Account No.0611001917137, Vietcombank or to Lot 34, Trung Yen 9 Street, Cau Giay District, Hanoi. Otofun, one of Vietnam’s largest social forums, has worked around the clock to invite donations in a campaign calling for urgent relief for children affected by the cold spell. As a result, … [Read more...] about Warm clothing urgently sent to hill children in need – Social affair
Bản in : Warm clothing urgently sent to hill children in need
Hanoi (VNA) – The community, especially netizens, have joined hands in various charity activities to send help up to mountain ethnic minority groups who are struggling in the country’s record cold spell. A fund namely “Tro ngheo vung cao” (Poor hill students) sent out an urgent message on January 24 to call for donations of winter clothing, and after 24 hours, it had raised more than 900 million VND and received about 5,000 cold-weather clothes and 4,000 pairs of boots. The donations were dispatched to Hoang Su Phi district in northern Ha Giang province and Bat Xat district of northern Lao Cai province for children in need. The fund plans to expand its campaign and send help to even more hill children. On January 26, a volunteer group approached a mountainous area in central Thanh Hoa province, near the border with Laos, to provide aid to children there. Donations can be sent via Account No.0611001917137, Vietcombank or to Lot 34, Trung Yen 9 Street, Cau … [Read more...] about Bản in : Warm clothing urgently sent to hill children in need
Gala raises over 100 bln VND in support of children
Hanoi (VNA) – The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) raised more than 100 billion VND from 40 individuals, organisations, businesses and philanthropists at home and abroad at a televised gala in Hanoi on January 14. Speaking at the event, Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh said over the past 24 years, the NFVC has successfully fulfilled its task of linking domestic and foreign philanthropists together to rally resources for children in need of help. Tens of thousands of children living with congenital heart disease and disabilities have received free treatment and medicines while hundreds of thousands of poor children accessed scholarships, toys and bicycles. The total donations have amounted to over 5.4 trillion VND (234.7 million USD) and more than 30 million children have benefited from such support. In 2016 alone, upwards 98 billion VND were used in support of 180,000 children. Thinh also called on individuals and organisations at home and abroad to continue … [Read more...] about Gala raises over 100 bln VND in support of children
Vintage vehicles parade to support children in need
Vintage vehicles parade to support children in need (19-10-2009) HCM CITY — More than 1,000 vintage bicycles, motorbikes and cars from HCM City and southern provinces revved up in the first ever parade along city centre streets calling on support for disadvantaged children living in the city yesterday morning. The riders from more than 20 vintage motorbike and scooter clubs in the south, wearing Vietnamese traditional costumes, began the parade at the Sai Gon Zoological and Botanical Gardens and travelled along Le Duan Street to the Nhat Hong Shelter and Thien Phuc and Tam Binh care homes. The event was held to call on businesses and the vintage vehicle collectors to make donations. The money will be used to help children who face serious diseases, and to specifically aid those living in Ly Son Island District, Quang Ngai Province, which was seriously damaged by Storm Ketsana two weeks ago. Prior to the event, participants joined a huge exhibition of classic vehicles at Sai Gon … [Read more...] about Vintage vehicles parade to support children in need
UN calls for action to eliminate violence against children in Vietnam
UN calls for action to eliminate violence against children in Vietnam By Anh Vuong  June 28, 2016 | 02:20 pm GMT+7 The United Nations pledged to work with the Vietnamese government to provide care and protection for the country’s at-risk children - a message delivered by Marta Santos Pais, special representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children during her recent three-day visit to Vietnam. Pais has met with Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on her first day of arrival and also attended the fourth installment of the ASEAN Children Forum in Hanoi as she worked on the promotion of preventing and eliminating all forms of violence against children. At a press conference held on June 22, Pais said children in Viet Nam are particularly vulnerable to many forms of violence, both physically and via the Internet, namely the persistence of cross-border trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation and child labor; to the overuse of detention of … [Read more...] about UN calls for action to eliminate violence against children in Vietnam
Warm clothing urgently sent to hill children in need
Hanoi (VNA) – The community, especially netizens, have joined hands in various charity activities to send help up to mountain ethnic minority groups who are struggling in the country’s record cold spell. A fund namely “Tro ngheo vung cao” (Poor hill students) sent out an urgent message on January 24 to call for donations of winter clothing, and after 24 hours, it had raised more than 900 million VND and received about 5,000 cold-weather clothes and 4,000 pairs of boots. The donations were dispatched to Hoang Su Phi district in northern Ha Giang province and Bat Xat district of northern Lao Cai province for children in need. The fund plans to expand its campaign and send help to even more hill children. On January 26, a volunteer group approached a mountainous area in central Thanh Hoa province, near the border with Laos, to provide aid to children there. Donations can be sent via Account No.0611001917137, Vietcombank or to Lot 34, Trung Yen 9 Street, Cau … [Read more...] about Warm clothing urgently sent to hill children in need
Children abandoned at pagoda
Dozens of children who were abandoned by their parents have been cared for at a small pagoda in southern Bac Lieu Province and are in desperate need of help. Children in need of help The manager of the orphanage for abandoned children at Vinh Phuoc An Pagoda, in Ward 2 of Bac Lieu City said the place has been there for a decade and houses around 60 children. They range from two months old to 14 years old and all were abandoned by their parents. Bottle-feeding infants "It's extremely unfortunate for a child to be abandoned by their parents. The orphanage was opened in the spirit of helping in the lives of these unfortunate children," said Lam Thi Kim Anh, the manager of the orphanage. According to her, more than ten children suffer fatal diseases and are in need of regular medical treatment. Even though most of them are provided with some medical support, rising expenses sometimes make it impossible. A three-year old baby with ear deformity and other diseases In order to ensure … [Read more...] about Children abandoned at pagoda