Is Children in Need drowning the many smaller charities?

I avoid it in any form. I have a list of charities I give to and respond to some emergency appeals, but I dislike being emotionally blackmailed in to charity giving and Children in Need is emotional blackmail, writ large.

This year there have been some quite skin crawlingly awful ads on R4, involving 'cute' children and subservient adults, yuk, yuk, yuk.

Keep not kee

I sent a small donation to the Red Cross when they were doing one of their crisis appeals. I now kee getting unsolicited letters. Save the Children is even worse they send pens and cards in the envelope. What a waste of their money I can buy my own cards and pens. I have set up 2 direct debits for favourite charities and I'm afraid I now ignore all other begging

Charities are getting greedy now. You never get an inventory of where your donated money goes or how much goes to who. The BHF which is online must make millions but still the charity is begging for more. Where's all this money going ??

Children in Need. Why are so many starving and going without in this country ? There must be some people around who don't need to do the lotto-------they all make me sick !

I've never watched it. Of course all the bigger charities spend a huge amount on fund raising that smaller charities can't match but I doubt that necessarily affects who gives what to where. I find it quite off putting when charities such as the salvation army tell me to give 19 quid. Crisis asked for even more but can't remember the figure, tbh that puts me off giving them a tenner if that's all I can afford, so that's their loss as I then give it someone who doesn't say how much I should donate.

Good question. I never watch it usually, but I am going to have to this year as my granddaughter will be on it (along with a lot of other children from her school acting group)