Everywhere you can cheer on the BBC Children in Need Rickshaw Challenge as it passes through North East

North East residents are being urged to cheer on BBC Children in Need's Rickshaw Challenge when it sets off in Sunderland on Monday morning.

The annual fundraiser has been going since 2011 when BBC One Show presenter and County Durham lad Matt Baker rode a Rickshaw 484 miles from the Edinburgh Castle Esplanade to the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London. Matt and the team raised £1.9million for BBC Children in Need on that first ride. In the 10 years since £41m has been collected.

Subsequent challenges have taken in routes from Llandudno to Reading and last year's adventure was from Bristol to Edinburgh raising £2m.