This is no small challenge – Slieve Donard is the highest peak in Northern Ireland, so Pudsey and the team want to wish Chloe the very best of luck for her challenge.

The staff and pupils at Dunmurry Primary School in Belfast are getting involved this year in a very eye-catching way. As well as running before-school breakfast clubs for sleepy students to attend in their #pyjamas, they’re also showing their fundraising spirit to the whole of Belfast by covering their school in Pudsey spots for our Appeal week in November! We think this is going to look brilliant, and we can’t wait to see some photos! And these aren’t the only heroes in Dunmurry this year – we’ve also heard from Marian at Country Oaks Daycare, where the staff and children are looking forward to a heroes-themed sponsored walk and dance. To add to the excitement, we’ve heard rumours floating around that there might even be a visit from a very special yellow guest…

If you’re in County Down on Tuesday 12 November and fancy some fundraising fun, why not check out David Boden’s BBC Children in Need quiz night? Quizmaster David will be hosting a night of intense quizzing set to get residents of County Down contemplatively scratching their heads and stroking their chins. And it gets better: the wonderful team at Ballydugan Mill, a beautiful 18 Century flour mill, have kindly let David use the venue for free! A pub quiz for BBC Children in Need, set in beautiful surroundings? Count us in!

Our last hero is Davida Wallace, a brave hairdresser from Ballymoney. Davida will be courageously shaving her hair off for BBC Children in Need. With autumn just around the corner and temperatures soon starting to drop, this is indeed a very heroic effort by Davida. Good luck, and thanks for braving the winter with a shaved head for BBC Children in Need.

A gigantic thank you to our heroes – every donation helps children and young people right here in the UK. If you’re planning to do something heroic this year, let us know! Just email your local address on this page to tell us what you’re up to. You can also get in touch by following us on Twitter, tagging @BBCCiN, and using our main campaign hashtag, #BeAHero. We're also on Facebook. We can help you to promote your fundraising events and maybe, just maybe, you could be a BBC Children in Need Fundraising Hero!

The Fun and Friendship Programme was designed to increase the opportunities for disabled young people across the UK to make new friends and to socialise more independently.

Cardiff City Stadium was the venue in Wales for the event which brought people together to talk with each other about some of the challenges that disabled teenagers face when they want to go out and have the sort of social lives that most young people take for granted.

Twelve young people from the two organisations in Wales that are participating - Mencap Cymru’s Play Our Way Project  and Whizz-Kidz  ‘Kidz Together Now’ Project - talked with participants from schools, Sports Disability Wales, Children in Wales, the Community Police and the transport industry, to name but a few. We were also delighted that representatives from our Corporate partners at Cineworld and Boots were able to join the lively conversations. 

Some very practical solutions were identified that would help making getting out and about easier and more enjoyable for disabled young people. For example, would it not be possible for travel identity cards - which have proved to be so helpful in Gwynedd - to be issued to all disabled young people in the whole of Wales?

Discussion was upbeat and constructive, but one young man struck a chord with everyone when he said, very matter-of-factly, that whenever he went anywhere he went with the, often realised, expectation that he would not be accepted.

In Belfast invited guests including Junior Minister Jennifer McCann and Northern Ireland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, Patricia Lewsley Mooney.

Whilst describing some of the many barriers that often make it difficult for disabled young people, solutions were also proposed. Young people from Compass’s S.INC Project demonstrated the power of peer buddying, and all the young participants had some very practical suggestions to make to the Translink representative about how public transport might become more user friendly.

The young people had lots to say and the opportunity to share their ideas. Most importantly they were able to share them with people who were really listening and who are committed to making real and positive change.

The most resonating message was that the changes that matter most are changes in attitudes and understanding. Practical difficulties can often be overcome if everyone takes a little bit more time to listen to and understand each other. Those who were there all identified things that they could easlily do in their personal of professional lives which would make a positive difference.

Imagine the scale of the change that could be made if we all did the same.

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Find out more about who BBC Children in Need help in your area by clicking here.

Watch our appeal films by clicking here.

Your fundraising and donations contribute towards 298 different projects, run by various organisations, that help children and young people all over Northern Ireland to feel safer, happier and better able to reach their full potential.

Two examples are the Whizz Kidz scheme, which helps young wheelchair users form their own local network, and ABC Saints Boxing Club in Belfast - a hive of activity to help young people keep their minds and bodies healthy.

Click below to read more about how children have benefited from those schemes:

Whizz Kidz

ABC Saints Boxing Club