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Over £20 million pounds was raised on Friday night when Children in Need took over BBC 1 for the whole evening for Pudsey’s Big Night In. One of the events of the show was the around the 80 Days Around the World relay trip taken by 12 celebrities, which we blogged about previously, questioning whether the amount of money raised would justify the expense of laying on the trip.

According to the Daily Mail the trip cost £1 million and was funded by license fee payer cash. They also add that environmentalists have attacked the show for the ‘pointless carbon emissions’ of sending celebrities on an around-the-world ‘jolly’ using public cash. In total, the trip raised around £145k for Children in Need.

Should the BBC have given the cash directly to the charity where it could have helped fund far more projects than the amount raised by the trip?

Is the BBC abusing it’s unique position of public funding, creating shows which seem to lack any value for money, when license payers are struggling to make ends meet in the current recession?

Children in Need 80 Days Around the World Trip worth the Cost to the Tax Payer?

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