Comic Relief 2026

Make Giving Feel Good Again

Insight

“The world feels heavy. I still care – but caring feels exhausting. Giving feels like something I should do, not something I want to do.”

In a world of constant bad news and endless asks, generosity hasn’t disappeared – it’s just become emotionally taxing.

Comic Relief’s challenge wasn’t relevance. It was resonance.
People hadn’t stopped caring – they’d stopped feeling good about caring.

At the same time, behaviour had fundamentally shifted.
Giving had moved from shared, national TV moments to fragmented, fast-moving digital feeds – where attention is fleeting, and participation is individual.

To unlock growth, Comic Relief needed to reframe generosity – from obligation into emotion.

Creative Springboard – Make Giving Feel Good Again

Comic Relief doesn’t need reinvention. It needs re-expression.

At its core is a simple human truth:
Laughter connects us. Compassion moves us.

So we built a platform that reconnects those two forces – designed for how people live today:

  • Scroll by scroll
  • Share by share
  • Smile by smile

Because when giving feels good, it stops being a moment – and becomes a habit.