18-03-2023, 06:25 PM
(18-03-2023, 01:28 PM)Dadeki Wrote: While £31.9 million is a respectable total, it's not exactly a good one either. In fact, reading Wikipedia for previous years' totals it appears to be the lowest amount raised since 1997, which saw £27 million. 1999 saw £35 million being raised and that's not accounting for inflation, either. The donations have also been dropping year on year since 2011, which saw a record £108 million being donated. Compared to last year's total of £42 million, over £10 million being lost in the space of a year alone is not something I would be boasting about and should instead raise serious questions about the continued relevance of the fundraiser. Yes I know there is a cost of living crisis, but even the 2009 total (which was in the height of a recession) was higher.Some of the Sport Relief years were worse than that, it's actually only the worst total since 2010.
2002: £10 million
2004: £11 million
2006: £18 million
2008: £19.6 million (£5.5 million of which came from one person!)
2010: £31 million
2012: £50.4 million
2014: £51.2 million
2016: £55.4 million
2018: £38.1 million
2020: £40.5 million
Children in Need 2022 raised £35.2 million, so Comic Relief's £31.9m isn't that bad, also, all CINs before 2013 raised less than that on the night. I think both telethons have been affected since the pandemic.