# children in need

Category: Let's talk

## Post 1 by laced-unlaced (Account disabled) on Thursday, 17-Nov-2005 11:47:28

as most of you will know it's children in need tomorrow! is anyone going to donate? i was just wondering also if anyone was going to support the programme or buy the single?

## Post 2 by Senior (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Thursday, 17-Nov-2005 13:09:36

Absolutely not. Why is it that for one day of the year we highlight the cause of one charity? There are others. There's the RNIB for example. Oh you blind people who are passionate about your disability loved when I said that I know. Anyway, 'They don't get a day like this and for years many blind people haven't had the best possible access to educational resources or have had to go to bording school. Then there's Oxfam which doesn't get a single day of the year. The Red Cross is also a charity deprived of its day of the year and both of these charities are doing a lot of work around the world to help victims of poverty and conflict. Children In Need descriminates against people who aren't children, and last time I heard, age descrimination is illegal. Does the NSPCC, the RSPCA, etc get a day of the year? No, it goes to Children In Need and I have honestly never met a child who's benefitted from that charity at all.

## Post 3 by sugarbaby (The voice of reason) on Friday, 18-Nov-2005 9:13:52

Actually children in need is not a charity in its own right, although the money given to it is given under the banner of children in need, there are many different, individual childrens’ charities that benefit from donations. Charities that otherwise would remain unheard of because they are too small to be able to generate the kind of publicity that an event such as children in need can generate. Of course there are a lot of charities that do a lot of good around the world, sadly I do not credit Oxfam to be one of them, and it is true that not all these charities can have a day in the year when they can publicise their cause and tout for donations, however, events such as comic relief and children in need do highlight a lot of issues that are going on both in Britain and the rest of the world, and often open peoples’ eyes in ways that small ad campaigns are unable to. The downside to days like children in need and red nose day however is that people are often put under pressure to donate. Companies around the country will encourage people to pay £1 for instance to wear casual clothes into work, etc etc, and often people feel that they are brow beaten into making donations. I personally feel that charity is a personal thing. Some people choose to give to charity, others don’t, and some people choose to give to different charities, if I chose not to give to children in need, doesn’t necessarily mean that I won’t give to another charity tomorrow. I don’t think it is necessarily appropriate to ask whether people will donate or not, because if they say no, then all too often they are viewed as being bad people for not doing so.

## Post 4 by Senior (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Friday, 18-Nov-2005 9:16:39

Perhaps then, they should all combine and form one big charities. Just imagine the benefits, they could all work together, there'd be less fundraising so people would be more willing to donate, and they'd be heard of by everyone.

## Post 5 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Saturday, 19-Nov-2005 9:09:47

No as long as they use children as pawns in their game of emotional blackmail, I will refuse to acknowledge CIN it's nothing more than a pity fest.