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6 unusual facts about Children In Need


Burning Spear discography

"Perfect Day" (1997) - Various Artists charity single in aid of Children in Need

Everybody in Love

The song was also performed on numerous TV shows throughout promotion of the single and the JLS album, including children's TV shows TMi and Blue Peter, daytime shows GMTV and This Morning, plus events such as BBC Switch Live, T4 Stars of 2009 and the annual BBC Children in Need telethon and that year's Christmas edition of Top of the Pops.

Janet and John

Five CDs of the recordings have been made available for the charity Children in Need and have raised a substantial amount of money.

JLS discography

On 16 September 2010 the group unveiled the second single, "Love You More" and was a BBC Children in Need single.

Joggy Bear

"Joggy Bear" was played by the young actress Sophie Barnard, who famously has also been "Pudsey Bear" on BBC's UK charity show Children in Need.

Rule the World

This song was also performed on 19 November 2009 for Children in Need on "Children In Need Rocks The Royal Albert Hall", where Gary Barlow dedicated it to his father, who had died 5 weeks earlier.


Ashley Blake

Blake also regularly filled in for Nick Owen as presenter of the main edition of Midlands Today, and had occasionally presented the BBC Breakfasteditions in addition to presenting the Midlands regional segments of the BBC's annual Children in Need telethon with Shefali Oza and Sarah Falkland.

Celebrity Scissorhands

Celebrity Scissorhands is a reality show that is part of the BBC's Children in Need charity campaign, in which celebrities attempt to cut people's hair to raise money for the campaign while trained and watched by professional hairdresser Lee Stafford.

D-Side

They have had three Top 10 singles in the UK, and have supported Blue, Westlife and numerous other bands on tour during 2003 and 2004, as well as being involved in Charity events such as Soccer Magic, Soccer 6, Children in Need and ChildLine.

Eileen Grimshaw

The character also appeared in the mini-episode crossover between Coronation Street and rival soap EastEnders entitled East Street screened on 19 November 2010 in aid of children's charity Children In Need.

Jan Pearson

In 2001, she appeared on the BBC's Children in Need with two other Holby City cast members, one of them was Adrian Lewis Morgan who played Liam Evans in Holby City and now plays Dr. Jimmi Clay in Doctors with Pearson.

Melissa Suffield

Suffield helped raise money for Children in Need in 2007 by appearing in a special Beatles medley featuring cast from EastEnders and in Children In Need 2008 doing a West End when Melissa did Mary Poppins.

Sir Harry Smith Community College

During Children In Need the previous year, the school broke the world record for the most people performing the children's song, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.

Tymes 4

Their second single was "She Got Game" and featured on BBC Television's Children in Need show Live & Kicking, The Saturday Show and Pepsi Chart Show.


see also

Claudia Arce

Founded by Satish Sikha They provided food, clothing and medical treatment to thousands of children in need.

Do Ya/Stay with Me

Not only is it McFly's lowest-charting single, but it is also the lowest-charting Children in Need single to date, peaking lower than Children in Need's 2007 single, "Headlines" by the Spice Girls, which had peaked at No. 11 and "Still Figuring Out" by Elliot Minor, which had peaked at No. 17 in 2008.

Elsa Brändström

In January 1924, she founded a children's home “Neusorge” in Mittweida which had room for more than 200 orphans and children in need.

First Book

As president and co-founder of First Book, an organization providing new books to children in need, Kyle Zimmer is a member of the Board of Directors for Ashoka.

Gigi Leung

She joined her friends, Charlie Yeung, Valen Hsu and Angelica Lee to form the "Hope Foundation," a non-profit organization to help children in need.

Loui Batley

She also performed the opening act/song on 2007's BBC Children in Need, along with co-stars Kevin Sacre, Gerard McCarthy and Summer Strallen.

Phyllis Keino

Although Phyllis has eight biological children of her own with her former husband Olympian Kipchoge Keino, her heart for children in need led her to act as a mother for hundreds of other children.