Charities urged to minimise fallout from BBC scandals

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 20 July 2007

The Comic Relief and Children in Need foundations must ensure the public knows they are entirely distinct from the BBC if the sector is to minimise the public relations damage caused by the latest controversies over BBC phone-ins, according to the Association of Charitable Foundations.

A BBC investigation found that telethons for Comic Relief, Children in Need and Sport Relief had all broadcast competitions in which members of their production teams posed as winners after technical problems prevented viewers from getting through. In the case of Sport Relief –part of Comic Relief – the physical...