CHILDREN and adults alike did their bit for Children in Need on Friday.

Many schools held activities; Darite raised £200.93 with a 'spotty' day; Duloe pupils wore spotty pyjamas and raised £113.40; cakes and biscuits were sold at St Cleer, raising £180; Quethiock Primary School raised £89.59 collecting 150 metres of copper coins; Coads Green school council raised £120 with home-baked cakes sales, dressing up, face painting, a treasure hunt, and a colouring competition; Lewannick School raised £130 through six different activities; Dobwalls School and the new nursery raised more than £250 selling a magazine, making Pudsey Bear biscuits, holding a tea party and dressing up, and Tywardreath School held a day of fundraising. Parents, staff and friends have also held several events, and £501.78 was raised from the non-uniform and spotty clothes day.

At HMS Raleigh two pirates, alias Petty Officers 'Maddie' Maddocks and 'Nobby' Nobes, collected cash; in Looe, The Barbican pre-school dressed up, decorated biscuits and did colouring, raising £25.75, and Hessenford skittles team, the Hobos, raised £300 with a skittles evening.

Nineteen children in Looe took part in a two-mile fun run organised by Vicky Richardson, her daughter Emily and Emily's friend Lucas Hocking, raising £572.50.

Fifty students and staff from the childcare department at Duchy College Stoke Climsland raised more than £400, with a Smurfs day, and Saltash Wesley Methodist Church Shell Club held a fun and competitions evening and sold cakes, raising nearly £40.

The New Wave Martial Arts group raised about £300 as kick boxers and Taekwon-Do students took part in a 'padathon' and the Pumas division took part in a Tumbleathon.

Office staff also did their bit – Newells Travel in Barras Street, Liskeard, went 'spotty' for the day; the Cornish Times advertising team wore pyjamas, and editorial staff member Jessamie Thomas and her son Rosco baked biscuits, the combined effort totalling £36.