Darlington

Darlington College of Technology students will be wearing their clothes inside out and collecting money around the town centre throughout the day.

Staff at the Orange Communications Centre will go to work in their pyjamas, with their teddy bears. Videos will be played in all rest areas at the centre and a "midnight feast" will be held at lunchtime. Managers will be sponsored to paint nails and make sure all their staff have coffee for the day.

Regulars and staff at the Railway Tavern in High Northgate are holding a sponsored waxing this evening. Music will be provided by Off the Wall and a darts competition will be held from 8pm.

Male staff from accountants Sanders Swinbank are having their legs waxed. Nigel Bayles, David Sanders and Stuart Swinbank are facing the challenge at 2pm in the firm's Victoria Road offices.

Children at Hurworth Comprehensive will have fun with a large picture of Pudsey Bear and will be having a non-uniform day.

Hall Garth Country House Hotel is holding a picnic for youngsters today, from 10.30am.

Red Hall Primary School is holding a Harry Potter day today.

A disco is taking place at The Wheatsheaf Hotel, Yarm Road, at 7.30pm this evening. The event will include prizes, quizzes and games. A signed Darlington Football Club shirt will also be raffled.

SOUTH WEST DURHAM

Staff at Rita's hair salon in Fishburn will be dressed as bumblebees and making collections around the village at lunchtime.

Children at the Cherry Tree Nursery, at North End, Sedgefield will be having a fancy dress party.

Students and staff at Bishop Auckland College are wearing their slippers to work today. They are also clearing the small change from their pockets to lay a Copper Trail of coins in the main corridor. They are planning a tug-o-war in the car park, when teams will pay £5 to compete for a trophy. Catherine Shaw and Anne Ebdon, both student supporters, have organised the events and are urging everyone to give as much as they can.

Can-can girls, nurses, vampires and cowboys will be among the colourful characters helping customers at the new Bishop Auckland Asda store, where staff are swapping their uniforms for fancy dress. A busy programme of events is planned over the next week as the store aims for a record-breaking total. Pudsey Bear balloon sculptures, a balloon slide and a pipe band are among the entertainments.

Clients at Rita's hairdressers, in Front Street, Fishburn, will have their locks shorn and shaped by stylists in fancy dress.

Pupils at Spennymoor School have arranged a non-uniform day, books and cake stalls. Teachers are joining in a custard race and asking for sponsorship to get covered in gunge.

Spennymoor Asda's five-a-side football team are having their heads shaved at 5pm. The store has already collected more than £1,000 with a raffle drawn by Bishop Auckland MP Derek Foster and other events.

NORTH

Diggerland adventure park, at Langley Park, for would-be junior construction workers opens its doors with the entry charge waived for the day today for what is billed as "bucket-loads of free fun".

Visitors are asked to make donations in collecting buckets while staff are entering into the spirit by giving their time for free and wearing fancy dress. The park is open from 10am to 5pm.

Students on the animal care course at East Durham and Houghall College's agricultural site, at Houghall, near Durham, will be dressing as St Trinian's girls through the day today. They will be collecting at the college, as well as at Durham Students' Union, Dunelm House, New Elvet, and at Durham University's Graham Sports Centre at Maiden Castle, near Durham.

Beauty therapy students at New College Durham are staging a charity waxathon for Children in Need. But they need volunteers to practice their skills on and have appealed to the local male population asking if they're "man enough" to have their legs or chest waxed.

It is taking place at the college's health and beauty salon at the Framwellgate Moor centre, from 9am to 4.15pm today. Details from Karina Moderate, on 0191-375 4289.

Twenty members of the Ruth Lord School of Dance will be attending Monday's weekly class at Pittington Village Hall, from 5pm to 7pm, in pyjamas and contributing to Children in Need.

Strong man Jim Mulheron will bid to complete 20,000 press-ups in 16-hours, in the function room at Spring's Health Club, in Crossgate, South Shields, from 8am today, aiming to complete the challenge before midnight.

There will be live broadcasts featuring entertainment by singers and dancers, plus celebrity appearances, at the BBC's Regional Broadcast Centre, the Pink Palace, at Fenham Barracks, Newcastle, from 6pm to 10pm today.

A table top sale takes place in Craghead Village Hall, on Friday, November 29, at 2pm. Stalls can be hired for £4, or £3 if you bring your own table. Admission on the day will be 20p and all proceeds are for Children In Need. To book a table, call (01207) 693200.

Scientia Solutions, the Tyneside firm which developed the ChildLine web portal, is holding a fundraising bacon buttie and doughnut breakfast today.

North Yorkshire

Employees of the Skipton Building Society, in Northallerton, are holding an activity coffee morning with fun, games and competitions.

A non-stop pool day is taking place at the Leeming Bar Hotel, Grange Avenue, Northallerton. People are invited to pot as many balls as possible to raise money.

The Profile Day Spa in Cold Bank Road, Harrogate, will be selling balloons with a difference today. Customers are invited to buy the balloons which contain vouchers for free treatments at the hair salon. There will be a raffle of beauty goods in the afternoon.

A team of employees from Castle Howard, near Malton, will be swapping their luxurious surroundings for the bitter outdoors to raise cash. Estate manager Duncan Peake will join the group on a fell-walking trip to the Lake District. To sponsor them, call (01653) 648444.

In Days Nursery, Scarborough, is holding an activity day, including a teddy bears' picnic, pyjama party and a guess the name of the rabbit competition.

The Hole in the Wall pub, in York, is holding a Disney theme day to raise cash. The fun and games will include a 12-hour beer bath soak.

TEESSIDE

Asda Hartlepool staff will be setting out cake stalls and raffles for customers today. Shoppers will get the chance to meet two owls in the foyer tomorrow and the fire brigade will also be there with a fire engine.

Staff at Reg Vardy's Jaguar dealership in Yarm Road, Stockton, will be dressing in tuxedoes today and inviting visitors to pay £15 for the privilege of having a spin in a £65,000 Jaguar XKR - one of which was used in the latest James Bond film Die Another Die.

Health visitors from the Wellburn Clinic, in Wellburn Road, Fairfield, Stockton, have organised a one kilometre toddle starting at 10am today. Toddlers will be sponsored for each 50m lap out of the full 50. Afterwards, refreshments will be available and each youngster will be offered a Pudsey Bear cake.

Children can have their faces painted for £1 at Dweezils in Asda Thornaby today, between 1.30pm and 6pm.

A 90-minute appearance by Pudsey Bear at Asda South Bank, near Middlesbrough, on Wednesday hel ped to raise £150 for Children in Need.