In what year did 'Pudsey Bear' become the Children in Need mascot?
"the times they were announced on the televised show. Children in Need 2015 Children in Need 2015 is a campaign held in the United Kingdom to raise money for the charity Children in Need. 2015 marks the 30th birthday of the charity's mascot, Pudsey Bear, since 1985, and the 35th anniversary of the appeal which culminated in a live broadcast on BBC One and BBC Two on the evening of Friday 13 November until the early hours of Saturday 14 November. The broadcast was hosted by Dermot O'Leary with Tess Daly, Fearne Cotton, Rochelle Humes and Nick Grimshaw as co-hosts."
"the soft toys during the opening of Blackpool Illuminations and named Pudsey Bear as the official mascot of the BBC Children in Need appeal. In 1986, the logo was redesigned. Whilst retaining the concept of a teddy bear with a bandana over one eye, all other elements were changed. Specifically, the triangular elements of the underlying design were abandoned, as well as the corporate identity colour scheme was changed. The new bandana design was white with red spots, one of the buttons was removed and the logotype now appeared as building blocks, which spelled out ""BBC CHILDREN IN NEED"" in"
"capital letters. Pudsey now has a smiling expression on his face rather than a sad one like the previous logo. In 2007, Pudsey and the logo were redesigned again. This time, Pudsey's bandana had multicoloured spots, and all of the buttons were removed. By 2009, Pudsey had been joined by another bear, a brown female bear named ""Blush"". She has a spotty bow with the pattern similar to Pudsey's bandana pattern. In 2013, Moshi Monsters introduced Pudsey as an in-game item for 100 Rox. The Children in Need 2015 campaign on 13 November 2015 marked the thirtieth birthday of Pudsey"
"Children in Need BBC Children in Need (also promoted as in Wales) is the BBC's UK charity. Since 1980 it has raised over £1,000 million for disadvantaged children and young people in the UK. One of the highlights is an annual telethon, held in November and televised on BBC One and BBC Two from 7:30 pm until 2:30 am. ""Pudsey Bear"" is BBC Children in Need's mascot, whilst Sir Terry Wogan was its long-standing host for 35 years. A prominent annual event in British culture, Children in Need is one of three high profile British telethons. It is the only"
"an actor dressed as Children in Need mascot Pudsey Bear were filmed in a park. This footage was compiled with some of the clips submitted by viewers and used to construct the final music video, which was shown nationwide on British music channels such as 4Music and Viva. Many viewers submitted clips that were literal interpretations of the lyrics. For example, some viewers held up medals and trophies for the lyric ""won the greatest prize"", others zoomed-in on their own eye during the line ""look into my eyes"" and others turned off lights for the lyric ""the lights are going"
"in the Michael Palin TV series Ripping Yarns. The band The Dunwells originate in Pudsey. Pudsey has given its name to ""Pudsey Bear"", the mascot of the BBC's annual fundraising marathon ""Children in Need"", as this was where Pudsey logo designer Joanna Lane's grandfather was mayor. Pudsey Pudsey is a market town in West Yorkshire, England. Once independent, it was incorporated into the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in 1974. It is located midway between Bradford city centre and Leeds city centre. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it has a population of 22,408. The former Municipal Borough of"
"Seminary. In 2005, their son Matthew was born. Noel MacNeal Noel MacNeal (born September 15, 1961) is an American puppeteer, writer, actor, and director of children's television, best known as the voice and puppeteer of Bear in ""Bear in the Big Blue House"" and ""Breakfast with Bear"". He first came to public attention in the early 1980s. Noel portrays the environmentally friendly character ZoZo a mascot for safer streets, green transportation, and useful public spaces. This Jim Henson designed and created walk around puppet is used by Livable Streets Education to talk about these issues with young children and families."
"in the 1989 cartoon. The most recent series, produced by Cinar Films, was first broadcast in 1997 and consisted of traditional two-dimensional colour animation. The show was called ""The Adventures of Paddington Bear"". Paddington Bear also appeared in The Official BBC Children in Need Medley with Peter Kay along with several other animated characters. In the video, Paddington makes a grand appearance by winking at the cameramen when they take photos of him; Kay tries to put a cloak on Paddington, but it keeps sliding off. He also joins the rest of the group for the final act. Untitled Paddington"
"Noel MacNeal Noel MacNeal (born September 15, 1961) is an American puppeteer, writer, actor, and director of children's television, best known as the voice and puppeteer of Bear in ""Bear in the Big Blue House"" and ""Breakfast with Bear"". He first came to public attention in the early 1980s. Noel portrays the environmentally friendly character ZoZo a mascot for safer streets, green transportation, and useful public spaces. This Jim Henson designed and created walk around puppet is used by Livable Streets Education to talk about these issues with young children and families. Among his characters are Bear, Mrs. (Mommy) Snuffleupagus"
"million children had applied. In 1955, the first children's book was published, followed by many sequels and coloring books. Soon thousands of dolls, toys and other collectibles were on the market. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Ad Council sponsored radio advertisements, featuring Smokey Bear ""in conversation"" with prominent American celebrities such as Bing Crosby, Art Linkletter, Dinah Shore, and Roy Rogers. Smokey's name and image are used for the ""Smokey Bear Awards"", which are awarded by the U.S. Forest Service, the National Association of State Foresters (NASF) and the Ad Council, to ""recognize outstanding service in the prevention of"
"in the early 1990s. There were many videos made in the 1990s and two DVDs in 2005. Lizzie Webb and Joggy Bear now tour schools and venues around the UK. ""Joggy Bear"" was played by the young actress Sophie Barnard, who famously has also been ""Pudsey Bear"" on BBC's UK charity show Children in Need. Sophie Barnard also played a role in the BAFTA Award winning children's television program Teletubbies, in which she has been acting as character Laa-Laa. Sophie got the role as Joggy Bear after auditioning for the role and being selected as the most qualified of the"
"Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund. In 2010, The West End cast of ""Jersey Boys"" performed a show, with the profits going to Children In Need. The show ended with Pudsey Bear joining in to sing a medley, and raised £60,150 for the charity. In 2009 the cast also appeared as a guest act for Children In Need. ""Jersey Boys"" Chicago has been honored two years in a row at the Broadway Cares event for being the top fundraiser in the Tour category. In 2008, ""Jersey Boys"" Chicago raised $220,000 for BC/EFA. For every ticket sold for every Broadway performance in the"
"them, and they were easy to find at retail prices. The ""Princess"" Beanie Baby was retired on April 13, 1999, and shortly thereafter, a Princess Beanie Buddy was announced. Ariel, a bear, was made in memory of Ariel Glaser, the daughter of ""Starsky and Hutch"" star Paul Michael Glaser and his wife Elizabeth Glaser, both Ariel and her mother contracted HIV and died from AIDS. This Beanie baby was made order to raise funds for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. The symbol on Ariel's chest is based on a painting the real Ariel did, which also serves as the"
"Buddy Bear Help Buddy Bear Help is a children's aid organisation founded in Berlin in 2004 by Eva Herlitz together with several international artists. """"Every cent for the children"""" - with this motto ""Buddy Bear Help e.V."" guarantees that 100 per cent of the donations and auction revenues from charity activities is used for the selected children's projects. All organisational and administrative costs are borne by the club members. Furat al Jamil, an artist from Iraq, who designed the bears for her country for the United Buddy Bears project, wanted to help, with the support of ""Buddy Bär Berlin GmbH"","
"Woodsy Owl Woodsy Owl is an owl icon for the United States Forest Service most famous for the motto ""Give a hoot—don't pollute!"" His current motto is ""Lend a hand—care for the land!"" Woodsy's target audience is children five to eight years of age, and he was designed to be seen as a mentor to children, providing them with information and advice to help them appreciate nature. Harold Bell of Western Publishing (and the producer of the Smokey Bear public service announcements), along with Glen Kovar and Chuck Williams, originally created the mascot in 1970 as part of a United"
"Four series of 13 episodes were made, with first broadcasts from 2002 to 2004. It has been sold in over 80 territories worldwide. In Canada, the show was aired on YTV. In 2009, Engie Benjy along with several other well known children's characters appeared on ""The Official BBC Children in Need Medley"" by Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band. Since September 2018, reruns of the series air on ITVBe's children's block LittleBe. Six VHS tapes and DVDs of all the episodes were issued between 2003 and 2005 by VCI and Granada Ventures. Engie Benjy Engie Benjy is a pre-school children's"
"Spuds MacKenzie Spuds MacKenzie is a fictional dog character created for use in an extensive advertising campaign marketing Bud Light beer in the late 1980s. The Spuds MacKenzie mascot and campaign were created by a 23-year-old art director, Jon Moore. At the time he was working at Needham, Harper & Steers, a Chicago, Illinois, advertising agency. The dog first showed up in a Bud Light Super Bowl XXI ad in 1987. During the height of his popularity, large amounts of Spuds merchandise was available, such as plush toys and t-shirts where the dog was seen surfing a wave or ""Hanging"
"""Hang Twenty Surf"" Contest. The company sponsored many rescue dogs from the kennel in Pennsylvania where Evie was from. Spuds MacKenzie Spuds MacKenzie is a fictional dog character created for use in an extensive advertising campaign marketing Bud Light beer in the late 1980s. The Spuds MacKenzie mascot and campaign were created by a 23-year-old art director, Jon Moore. At the time he was working at Needham, Harper & Steers, a Chicago, Illinois, advertising agency. The dog first showed up in a Bud Light Super Bowl XXI ad in 1987. During the height of his popularity, large amounts of Spuds"
"this success with a cover version of ""I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"", originally by the Proclaimers, for Comic Relief. The video featured a celebration of British talent. In 2009, Kay switched his musical fund-raising to Children in Need with the release of Peter Kay's All Star Animated Band, which had taken two years to complete. He brought together over 100 animated children's characters in a six-minute animated medley. These characters included Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder and Paddington Bear. It also featured some of the characters' original voice artists including Bernard Cribbins, Neil Morrissey, Ken Barrie and Ringo"
"grasslands) are also in danger of burning. The living symbol of Smokey Bear was a five-pound, three month old American black bear cub who was found in the spring of 1950 after the Capitan Gap fire, a wildfire that burned in the Capitan Mountains of New Mexico. Smokey had climbed a tree to escape the blaze, but his paws and hind legs had been burned. Local crews who had come from New Mexico and Texas to fight the blaze removed the cub from the tree. At first he was called Hotfoot Teddy, but he was later renamed Smokey, after the"
"They then had a television series from 1985 to 1988, and three feature films: ""The Care Bears Movie"" (1985), """" (1986) and ""The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland"" (1987). Each Care Bear comes in a different color and has a specialized insignia on its belly that represents its personality. The movie """" named them ""belly badges"". Adding to the Care Bear family are the ""Care Bear Cousins"", which feature a lion, rabbit, penguin, raccoon, monkey, elephant, pig, dog, cat, and other such animals created in the same style as the teddy bears. In 2002, the bears were reintroduced with new"
". In 2018, Twinkl became the school partner for the BBC Children in Need charity. As a result of this partnership, Twinkl created a Pudsey Bear storybook and distributed this to more than 24,000 UK schools. In the same year, Twinkl collaborated with Stonewall (the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender rights charity) to produce a new LGBT Best Practice Guide for LGBT inclusion in UK primary schools. Stonewall reported that this guide would play a role in helping primary schools create environments where every child is accepted without exception. In 2017, Scottish endurance athlete Mark Beaumont's attempt to cycle around"
"announcements for the National Forest Service featuring Smokey Bear. Bell was hired as a technical advisor for the long-running, popular television show, ""Lassie"". The concept for Woodsy Owl was developed on the set of ""Lassie"". Bell teamed with three other Lassie teachnical advisors - United States Forest Service rangers, Chuck Williams and Glenn Kovar, and colleague Betty Hite - to create Woodsy Owl as the new mascot for the United States Forest Service for the first Earth Day in 1970. The United States Forest Service had requested that Bell and the others develop a new message and symbol for the"
"the polar bear in advertising, while Fox's Glacier Mints have featured a polar bear named Peppy as the brand mascot since 1922. Polar bears are popular in fiction, particularly in books for children or teenagers. For example, ""The Polar Bear Son"" is adapted from a traditional Inuit tale. The animated television series ""Noah's Island"" features a polar bear named Noah as the protagonist. Polar bears feature prominently in ""East"" (also released as ""North Child"") by Edith Pattou, ""The Bear"" by Raymond Briggs (adapted into an animated short in 1998), and Chris d'Lacey's ""The Fire Within"" series. The ""panserbjørne"" of Philip"
"The Official BBC Children in Need Medley ""The Official BBC Children in Need Medley"" is a single by Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band. It is the official Children in Need Single for 2009, and was released on 21 November 2009. The song was shown for the first time on Children in Need 2009. The cover art is a parody of the cover of ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" by The Beatles. The single has sold over 452,000 copies in the UK, earning it Gold status from the BPI. According to a news interview, Kay conceptualized the single while"
"YouTube following notification from Phil Collins Limited that the piece infringed their copyright to ""In The Air Tonight."" ""Gorilla"" was further parodied as an introduction to the second half of the 2007 Children in Need special, with an actor dressed as Pudsey Bear taking the central role. British comedy series The Mighty Boosh features a drumming gorilla named Bollo, played by Dave Brown, and the actor appeared as Bollo in a viral video auditioning for the Cadbury advert to promote the third series of the show. This video was later included as an easter egg on the DVD release of"
"the first time since 2003. In February 2012, Imagination Ventures, the philanthropic enterprise of media company Imagination Entertainment, purchased the assets of Banksia Productions that included all the rights to the ""Humphrey B. Bear"". In May 2012 Humphrey was announced as the official 'Ambassabear' for the Women & Children's Hospital Foundation and he was introduced to a new generation of children. His first major fundraising effort saw the release of a limited edition gift set featuring a Humphrey plush doll & DVD with all proceeds supporting the hospitals Kids FUNd program. Since then, Humphrey has reappeared across Australia featuring in"
"museum - the best place for it. We didn't want it in the reception because it's so gory we feared it could scare the customers when they visited."" After the acquisition, the museum commenced a restoration process which took six years to complete. Peppy was displayed in a public exhibition at the museum from 24 January to 5 April 2009. Peppy (mascot) Peppy (from ""peppermint"") is the polar bear mascot and icon of Fox's Glacier Mints, a brand of boiled mint manufactured by Fox's Confectionery in the United Kingdom. Peppy was introduced to confectionery packaging in 1922. At around the"
"and is featured in the Australian National Museum. He became the only bear in the world to become a cub when he was initiated into the Scouting Movement. Humphrey B. Bear Humphrey B. Bear is an Australian children's television series and its fictional character namesake is an icon of Australian children's television. ""Humphrey B. Bear"" was first broadcast on Adelaide's NWS-9 on Monday, 24 May 1965. The show became one of the most successful programs for pre-schoolers in Australia. The part of Humphrey was originally played by Edwin ""Ted"" Duryea, (c.1930-2009) an actor, singer and dancer whose human identity was"
"in a bear suit) as a lover of biscuits who thought Hudson's brand was the best. Cookie Bear's immediate popularity resulted in an increase in his use as a mascot for Hudson's biscuits, with eventual heavy use of his image in advertisements, on packaging and on a growing number of promotional items. Cookie Bear became particularly associated with Chocolate Chippies, a hard round biscuit with chocolate chips. At the height of Cookie Bear's popularity in 1975, John Berry wrote and published an illustrated children's book called ""The Adventures of Cookie Bear"". When Hudsons was incorporated into Griffin's Foods (Hudson's main"
"Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Havana (Cuba), Santiago de Chile (Chile), Riga (Latvia). Admission to the exhibition is always free of charge. The number of visitors has often exceeded 1 million. As soon as a country decides to commission a new Buddy Bear, the predecessor is sold at an auction in aid of UNICEF or other child relief organizations all over the world. So far, over EUR 2,300,000 (since 2002 till 2017) have been raised at auctions in various cities of the world. Eva Herlitz, together with several international artists, founded in Berlin in 2004 Buddy Bear Help, a children's aid"
"song in a London park, along with an actor dressed as Children in Need mascot Pudsey Bear. This footage, along with clips of viewers miming to the song, was then used to construct the final music video for the single, which McDonnell edited. ""I've Got Nothing"" was performed live twice. The first occasion was at the 93 Feet East gathering on 4 November 2009, during the promotion of the single's release. The gathering featured performances from other YouTube users and was headlined by Hawkes. The second occurrence was four days later at Switch Live 2009, an awards show organised by"
"Complex fires. A camp for child burn victims, Camp Eyabsut in North Bend, Washington, adopted her as a mascot and an interactive online children's book, ""Cinder the Bear"", by Barbara deRubertis, benefited Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care and Idaho Black Bear Rehabilitation. Cinder (bear) Cinder (January 2013 – October 2017) was a bear found badly burned as a cub after the Carlton Complex fire in Washington state, United States. She was rehabilitated and released and became an emblem of the region's will to recover. She appears to have been killed by a hunter. As a cub about one and a half"