BBC Children in Need 2014 raises £32.6m
Howard Lake | 15 November 2014 | News
The BBC Children in Need total stands at a record £32,620,469, following six and a half hours of live TV. This surpasses last year’s total which then was a record £31.1 million.
The annual BBC One show was hosted throughout by Sir Terry Wogan with co-presenters Tess Daly, Fearne Cotton, Rochelle Humes, and Radio 1’s Nick Grimshaw.
Presenters of BBC Children in Need 2014
Performances on the night
The evening of entertainment saw performances from One Direction, BoyZone, a reformed S Club 7, Donny Osmond, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, and The Script, and from the cast of EastEnders, the musical Made in Dagenham, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
There were also performances of the Official BBC Children in Need single ‘Wake Me Up’ by Gareth Malone’s AllStar Choir, and of the BBC Music cover of ‘God Only Knows‘, proceeds of which are benefiting Children in Need.
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Sir Bruce Forsyth returned for a special Strictly Come Dancing episode.
A special Tom & Jerry cartoon also aired, showing the duo doing their bit collecting donations for Children in Need:
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Types of fundraising
BBC Radio 2’s listeners contributed over £6m towards the total through a series of online auctions and a quiz night, and events such as performance of West End musical Matilda.
BBC’s The One Show once again hosted a sponsored rickshaw ride, travelling 450 miles from Salford to Walford (fictional home of EastEnders) during the week, and raising over £2.6m.
BBC Children in Need 2014 celebrity bakers
BBC Children in Need – the Great British Sewing Bee
The whole campaign, the theme of which was ‘Be a Hero’, had already been boosted by a number of earlier programmes including The Great British Sewing Bee.
There was also extensive corporate support from companies including Debenhams, B&Q, Boots, The Post Office and BT.
Peter Andrew and Post Office staff as heroes for BBC Children in Need 2014
BB Children in Need 2014 – the #bearface campaign
Members of the public were encouraged to go ‘barefaced’ (or rather ‘bearfaced’ given it was in aid of Pudsey) by removing all their makeup and sharing a selfie of the result, with a little Pudsey sticker on their cheek.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.