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Children in Need 2016 is a campaign held in the United Kingdom to raise money for the charity Children in Need. It was the 37th Children in Need appeal show which was broadcast live on BBC One on the evening of Friday 18 November until the early hours of Saturday 19 November. It was the first edition of the televised campaign since original presenter Terry Wogan's death in January 2016.

Dermot O'Leary, Fearne Cotton and Nick Grimshaw did not return for the 2016 telethon, and were replaced by Graham Norton, Ade Adepitan and Marvin Humes. Craig David performed the official Children in Need single for 2016, All We Needed.

The culmination of Children in Need 2016 was broadcast on BBC One on 18 November from the BBC Elstree Centre.

This year saw the biggest totaliser record in the history of Children in Need, £46.6 million. It was announced in summer 2017 that the charity raised the highest ever fundraising total of £60,000,000.

The presenters were:^[1]

• Fantastic Beasts Children In Need Special - with Eddie Redmayne
• Would I Lie To You? Children In Need Special
• Cast of EastEnders go 80's
• Team GB does Strictly Come Dancing

• BBC East - Milton Keynes at Stadium MK^[2]
• BBC East Midlands - Leicester at The Curve Theatre
• BBC London - London at BBC Maida Vale Studios^[3]
• BBC North East and Cumbria - Prudhoe at Prudhoe Castle^[4]
• BBC Northern Ireland - Belfast at Titanic^[5]
• BBC North West - Liverpool at Sefton Park
• BBC Scotland - Glasgow at BBC Pacific Quay^[6]
• BBC South - Salisbury at Salisbury Arts Centre
• BBC South East - Bexhill at The De La Warr Pavilion
• BBC South West - Plymouth at The Royal William Yard^[7]
• BBC Wales - Swansea at Swansea University^[8]
• BBC West - Bristol at The Mall at Cribbs Causeway^[9]
• BBC West Midlands - Dudley at the Black Country Living Museum
• BBC Yorkshire - Bradford at Bradford College
• BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Bridlington at Bridlington Spa^[10]

As well as the main studio in Elstree the events at Liverpool, Swansea, Bridlington, Dudley, Glasgow, Milton Keynes, Salisbury and Belfast each hosted a choir of around 150 children to sing Lean on Me in unison as part of the Children in Need Choir.

The following are totals with the times they were announced on the televised show.

• Children In Need

• Children in Need 2016 at BBC Online