Children in Need

[Highlander]

Here's a suggestion - every time you make a royal related post on here, you donate 50p to Children in Need.

[Jim Fraser]

Brilliant idea H, that will either make a big contribution to a great charity, or make a few ongoing topics a bit quieter - a definite win win situation

[karaokemark]

quote:Originally posted by Highlander

Here's a suggestion - every time you make a royal related post on here, you donate 50p to Children in Need.

only if I can make sure my 50p goes to English Children

[Highlander]

If you watch the programme and don't get a lump in your throat listening to the stories, check your pulse, you may not be breathing.

Give what you can, please.

[stoop]

Will do. Maggie has it all in order for our donation. I think I've made enough Royal references this week ;-)

[Scunner]

I would not give a penny to Children In Need. All those people working their butts off to collect £300 here and 50 grand there, and kids giving their £2 pocket money while Wogan was asking for our money but taking thousands to host it for years. Kick that two faced leech off and things should improve for Children in Need.

[stoop]

Good point Keith but every charity has people who earn good money on the back of donations. Can you say that TW didn't earn his coin in relation to the money he helped bring into the CIN charity compared to any other paid charity worker?

What's the difference between someone working for a charity and earning 40k per year and TW earning 300k per year... and which one gives best value to the charity?

For the record I agree he is rich enough to do it for nowt but if you were the charity would you have me fronting it for 30k or him for 300k?

I'm not actually sure who paid him anyway. Was it the BBC?

[Pi55y]

"Good point Keith but every charity has people who earn good money on the back of donations" stoop

Not every charity Stoop!- I am sure there are several in the Calis/Fethiye area who would be up in arms about that generalisation including the 3 C's - the Calis Children's Charity (the new name for the Calis Carnival Fundraising Group - hope you all like it!)).

We managed to watch four hours of the CIN programme last night but as it started at 9.00 pm here in Turkey there was no way we could watch the rest so will have to catch up sometime later.  It still amazes me how generous people can be.

Our new committee's one regret is that we were unable to hold our annual Calis in Need Fun Night to coincide with the BBC fundraiser due to Kurban Bayram as this night always makes lots of money for the local Turkish children.  However if anyone wishes they can always make a donation by Paypal through our website http://www.caliscarnival.com/en/donate.html

We have had ten applications in for assistance from various children's groups/schools from the money raised during the last year and we will be visiting them all in the next 3 weeks to see where the money can best be spent  

[Jacqui Harvey]

Terry Wogan took a fee of £9,000 from the BBC for the show every year until it was reported in the press, after this embarrasment in 2007 he decided to waive this fee for future shows.

[Scunner]

The point on Wogan is that the charity doesn't pay him anything to front CIN - his fee for the evening (over £9,000 the last time he was paid it) comes from the BBC - not bad wages for a night's work! He was the ONLY person paid a fee for being on the show. So the charity didn't invest anything or lose anything. Surely Wogan makes/made plenty enough from his many BBC TV and radio shows - money that ultimately we all pay - without getting £1000 an hour in the BBC's big charity event.

Most people would, if a fee was paid, donate that fee to the charity effort - especially if their job happens to be to ask the people who pay his wages to "dig deep". Even more so when he is someone on a salary astronomically higher than the people he is asking to "make a difference". Vile man.