Children In Need

Cyclists around Britain – young and old, novices and professional alike – showed their caring side at the weekend as they helped the BBC’s annual Children In Need appeal raise more than £20 million to aid disadvantaged young people across the UK.

Here, we highlight just a handful of the many people who took to their bikes to help contribute towards that total.

Mark Beaumont, until last month the holder of the world record for the fastest round-the-world bike ride, has thrown down the gauntlet to Scotland’s cyclists to rack up 10,000 miles in support of this year’s Children In Need campaign.

The annual telethon takes place on 20 November this year, and by then Mark will have ridden more than 10,000 miles in his current project, in which he is cycling the length of the Americas from Alaska in the North to Tierra del Fuego in the South.