Every year, Children in Need raises tens of millions of pounds – helping to fight things like child abuse, illness and teen violence, as well as many other issues affecting young people.

So, once again at ALS, we decided to do something at our head office that would raise as much money as possible. Since we like nothing better to punish/humiliate our senior management team, we did our bit with the added incentive of soaking our senior management team at the end of the day – all in the name of charity, of course (yes it was a bit self-indulgent, but we can justify it).

Having being set a fundraising target for the day, ALS staff clubbed together with fancy dress and food pledges – anything that would see us surpassing the target of £250. In true ALS fashion we not only met but exceeded our target, raising just over £400, and duly claimed the reward of assaulting the management team with water balloons… which we recorded (below)!

People in this video (left to right): Sarah ‘Santa’s Helper’ Wilson, Laura “Zorro” Bolton, Richard “Tinky Winky” Stangroom, Gavin “Ali G” Wheeldon (who thought his waterproof suit would hold up against a determined crowd!) and Simon “Naughty Schoolboy” Ratcliffe.

Many thanks to all ALS staff for taking part in the day, you helped to raise money for some very worthy causes!

Do you like this video as much as us?

If you do, why not donate to our running total? The surreal image of our “Teletubby” director, Richard Stangroom fighting back surely has to be worth a small donation…right?

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