BBC Children in Need is the BBC's UK charity. As of September 2023 and since 1980, it has raised over £1 billion for disadvantaged children and young people in the UK.
Pudsey Bear raising funds for BBC Children in Need 2009
BBC Television Centre on the night of the 2008 telethon
The original logo, used from 1980 to 1984
The very first Pudsey bear and logo, used in 1985
A telethon is a televised fundraising event that lasts many hours or even days, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charitable, political or other cause.
The "Glass House" radiothon studio of Serious Request in Groningen's market square in 2009, in front of its city hall
Fundraising for 24 Hour Television at Kanazawa-Bunko Station, 2007