Sport Relief Mandela outside the Union Buildings in Pretoria, covering , in temperatures in excess of , and raising £1,648,087. He had attempted this effort in 2012, but was forced to back out due to health concerns. In 2014, Davina McCall took on a Sport Relief challenge to raise money for the appeal. This was called "Davina: Beyond Breaking Point", which saw the presenter tackle bike riding, running and swimming for seven days as she travelled from the north of the country (outside Edinburgh Castle) to the end (in Central London). Alex Jones also took part in a Sport Relief challenge which
Comic Relief Comic Relief Comic Relief is an operating British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia. The highlight of Comic Relief's appeal is Red Nose Day, a biennial telethon held in March, alternating with its sister project Sport Relief. A prominent biennial event in British popular culture, Comic Relief is one of the two high-profile telethon events held in the United Kingdom, the other being Children in Need, held annually in November. At the end of the 2015 Red Nose Day telethon on 14 March it was announced