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Comic Relief USA was a non-profit charity organization whose mission was to raise funds to help those in need—particularly America's homeless.It has raised and distributed nearly US$50 million toward providing assistance—including health care services—to homeless people throughout the United States.
Comic Relief was launched live on Noel Edmonds' Late, Late Breakfast Show on BBC1, on Christmas Day 1985 from a refugee camp in Sudan. The idea for Comic Relief came from the charity worker Jane Tewson, who established it as the operating name of Charity Projects, a registered charity in England [8] and Scotland.
Gameplay alternated between the two teams. On each team, the player who was given the password gave a one-word clue from which their partner attempted to guess the password. (For example, the opposite clue "stop" might be given for the password "go", or the next instructional clue "synonym" might be given to elicit the password "halt"). If the ...
BBC Children in Need is the BBC's UK charity for disadvantaged children and young people in the UK. Between 1980 and 2023, it raised over £1 billion for them. [2]An annual telethon is held in November and televised on BBC One and BBC Two.
Gareth Malone was born into a family of Irish descent as the only child of James and Sian Malone, who had met at their local Gilbert and Sullivan society. [6] His father, James Malone, grew up in Parkhead in Scotland in an Irish family, [7] and was a bank manager.
A transcript of "One Year On" can be found in a booklet which was included in the DVD set of Live Aid, the first disc of which features the BBC news report, as well as the Band Aid video. Live Aid inspired a number of charity events, such as Media Aid, which raised money for Save the Children.
Give Us a Clue is a British televised game show version of charades which was broadcast on ITV from 1979 to 1992. The original host was Michael Aspel from 1979 to 1984, followed by Michael Parkinson from 1984 to 1992. The show featured two teams, one captained by Lionel Blair and the other by Una Stubbs.
Charity Shop Sue is a British mockumentary web series broadcast on YouTube between October and November 2019. The series was created by Matthew and Timothy Chesney and Stuart Edwards and filmed in Bulwell , Nottingham , in the fictional charity shop Sec*hand Chances.