Comic Relief

📢 “Honourable adjudicators, worthy opponents, and the audience” You are hereby invited to follow the anticipated, hotly contested #ShiftingthePower Pan-African debates! Over the next few weeks, university students across Zambia, Malawi, and Ghana will go head-to-head, debating how aid and development can be reimagined. As part of Comic Relief’s flagship Shifting the Power program, co-funded with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, key anchor partners STAR-Ghana Foundation, the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI), TILITONSE FOUNDATION, and the Zambian Governance Foundation (ZGF) are hosting debate competitions that challenge young people to critique dominant narratives, challenge systems and assumptions, and radically imagine better futures. We have already seen fierce competition in Zambia, where four teams battled for the coveted position in the grand finale, all broadcast on national television. With greatly anticipated debates scheduled in Malawi and Ghana, young people are engaging with big questions and sharing pathways towards putting local communities, knowledge, and voices at the forefront of decolonising aid. Making up 70% of the African population, young people are a force for locally led development on the continent, and we are seeing through these impassioned debates how they intend on moving from rhetoric to reality. Stay tuned to hear more as finalist teams from each country head to the grand finale in Ghana this March! 👀 #ShiftingThePower #LocallyLedDevelopment #YouthLeadership

Red Nose Day is coming up on 20th March, but you don’t need to wait until then to Take Yourself Funny for Money. It’s the perfect opportunity to turn your work days into moments of connection, joy, and collective good. Bring your colleagues together, share some laughs, and make a real difference while you’re at it! 🔴 Here are five fun ways to get involved: Kick things off with a Bake Sale but not just any bake sale. Bake Yourself Funny For Money by whipping up gloriously chaotic self‑portrait cakes, wonderfully wobbly cupcakes, or even celebrity shortbread creations. When it comes to fundraising bakes, the funnier the better. Bring the colour with a Red Nose Takeover Day by inviting everyone to donate to wear red outfits. Add a mindful crafting moment where colleagues can design their own Red Noses, a joyful way to pause, reset and get creative together. Take on the Taskmaster! We’ve teamed up with Taskmaster to devise some ludicrously fun tasks to test your team's dexterity, creativity and eccentricity. Ask colleagues to pay to get involved or sell tickets to your own Taskmaster show. Think you Nose it all? Put your brain cells to the test with Susan Calman’s Big Red Nose Day quiz. Host a pay to play lunchtime brain-teaser, selling tickets for an online or in-person event. Friendly (or fierce) competition is strongly encouraged. Tour de Farce! Go for comedy gold. Prepare to bring some serious Olympic prowess to your workplace, with a large side of silly. Get your colleagues together for a sponsored challenge, with a twist. Think racing toddler bikes, a hobby horse derby, or simply a sponsored fancy dress running challenge. The sillier the better! Get sponsored to take part, pay to pick a winner, or simply sell tickets to watch the mayhem unfold. If you want even more ideas and inspiration for how your workplace can get involved, you can find loads more here: https://lnkd.in/eV_RMYuD

It’s time to get baking, BUT with a twist… Shake things up by Baking Yourself Funny For Money this Red Nose Day! Go one step further and get baking brilliant bread-based goodies with your class using our age-related learning resources, created in conjunction with the The Food Teachers Centre. From silly sandwiches to funny focaccia, we've got everything you need to raise some 'dough' this Red Nose Day. 🧁 Whatever you choose we want you to have some fun and help us turn some moments of silliness into essentials every person needs to survive. Food to eat. A safe place to sleep. A life free from fear and harm. ❤️ Get involved now, tap the link to find out more! https://lnkd.in/e7VrtxFr

It's fantastic to see the team at TK MAXX getting involved in the Red Nose Day Spirit. We're thrilled to be continuing our partnership for 2026!

Our Schools Champions are here! We’re so excited to have Maddie Moate and Kit Brown on board to work alongside Comic Relief to encourage classrooms all over the country to turn silly moments into serious goodness this Red Nose Day! ❤️

Let’s get serious about being silly for a minute. As well as being loads of fun, Red Nose Day can help your pupils learn too. From assemblies and videos, to tutor time activities and topic maps, plus a very special dough-based challenge created in conjunction with the The Food Teachers Centre, we have loads of fun, age based learning for your classroom. Visit comicrelief.com/schools to find out more!

Introducing Radio 1’s Longest Ride with Greg James for Red Nose Day! 🚵 We heard 2016 is back? The man, the myth, the Red Nose Day legend Greg James is returning with his most ambitious, most utterly bonkers challenge yet! All to raise a mountain of money for a truly important cause, helping those who need it most get essentials everyone needs to eat, sleep and feel safe. ❤️ In true Take Yourself Funny For Money style, Greg will be cycling 1000km over 8 days on (wait for it)… a TANDEM BIKE. Yes, really. A challenge so huge, it might just be his toughest ride ever. Along the way, Greg will be joined by some familiar faces to help him along, but more than anything, he’ll need your support to help push him through this enormous undertaking. So get ready to cheer him on, follow every mile, and help us make some real change this Red Nose Day. 🔴 #ComicRelief #GregsLongestRide

Our friends at White Rose Education, Twinkl Educational Publishing and Teachmate have created a range of brilliant resources to support your Red Nose Day (or even Red Nose week!) from year focused maths and science, to puzzles and jokes, through to school-safe AI tools to support your classroom learning, we have everything you need to make sure your Red Nose Day is bigger and better than ever. Check them out at comicrelief.com/schools #RedNoseDay #ComicRelief

Awards Season is upon us, and we have one more to add to your watchlist! 🌟 Nominate your top Comic Relief fundraisers for The Nosey Awards at 👉 https://lnkd.in/emt4-E4A #ComicRelief #RedNoseday