BRADFORD College's new £50 million Hockney Building will stage the region's Children in Need celebrations on Friday.

The BBC's local coverage will be hosted by the Look North team and beamed across Yorkshire and the Humber as part of the televised fundraiser.

Hosts Amy Garcia and Harry Gration, who was made an Honorary Fellow of Bradford College in 2012, will arrive on a tandem bike after peddling around the city collecting money for Pudsey's charity. They will then broadcast from the Pudsey Bear-inspired set designed by graphic design students at the college.

Fundraisers will include leg waxing, an abseil down the side of the new building and a boxathon.

Bulls players Karl Davies and Dale Ferguson will be de-fuzzed courtesy of beauty therapy students.

Karl ‘The Lumberjack’ Davies said: "Getting my legs waxed for Children in Need will be an interesting experience to say the least! I hope the beauty students from Bradford College go gentle on me."

College Group CEO Andy Welsh and Group IT director Brian Boullier will don tuxedos and scale the side of the building, which opened in September.

Mr Welsh said he was not shaken by the hair-raising stunt, adding: "The excitement is building here at Bradford College ahead of Children in Need.

"We are all really looking forward to helping raise funds for such a worthy cause. Students and staff alike have come up with some great ideas and we are all looking forward to getting involved on the big day.

"Our Sport and Public Services teams take students abseiling as part of their courses, but this will be the first time they’ve done this activity in our new David Hockney Building. I’m really looking forward to being first down the rope...honest!"

Bradford Police and College Boxing Academy boxers Jade Ashmore and Nohmaan Hussain will be demonstrating their skills in the ring in a fundraising 'boxathon'; there will be a Great British Bradford Bake Off competition and 200 Bradford school children will join almost 2,000 others across the UK for a singing performance at 8.20pm.

Acting Head of Region for BBC Yorkshire Tim Smith said: "We’re delighted to bring Children In Need to Bradford and in particular Bradford College’s spectacular new campus.

"Bradford is the youngest city in Europe, with a higher proportion of under 15s than anywhere else, so it’s a great place to celebrate Children in Need."

The Bradford event will be featured as part of the national television fundraiser which is this year broadcast fromEastEnders' Albert Square.

Regular presenters Sir Terry Wogan, Tess Daly, Fearne Cotton and Nick Grimshaw will be joined by a new host, The Saturdays singer and presenter Rochelle Humes.

Last year the region's television coverage was broadcast from The National Media Museum. It included live interviews with fundraisers and groups that benefit from Children in Need, entertainment from Dene Michael, of Black Lace fame and the Yorkshire Elvis.

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