15/11/2024
On Friday 15th November, viewers and listeners in the UK engaged with the annual BBC Children In Need Appeal. It is an annual event in which all the public service broadcaster's television and radio programmes, with the help of hospital radio stations and many community, internet and streaming independent stations too join forces for a telethon style grand appeal. BBC Children in Need has made several key grants to service organisations helping LGBTQIA+ youth. The event started at the very beginning of modern broadcasting, as a weekly appeal on the BBC Network in 1926 and continued through the decades until 1979 when it was totally reformatted as a telethon event, with key programming on BBC 1 for the Friday night and presenters at other stations also taking on challenges, auctioning items off and making merry in exchange for donations. Many millions are routinely raised by the annual appeal. It takes place every November, with the thinking that people are beginning to ease into a more festive mood and therefore will be in a more charitable frame of mind than at other times of the year.
