Students will be jumping up and down to raise funds for a worthwhile cause today.

As part of the national Children In Need appeal, students at Chichester College will attempt to break their fund-raising record by holding an all-day bounceathon on a bouncy castle.

Last year the college gave £1,820 to the charity and this year it plans to top that tally and raise more than £2,000 by encouraging people to wear fancy dress, sponge fellow teachers and students in the stocks and receive makeovers from hair and beauty students.

Bounce will not be the only thing in the air today when hospital radio station Mid Downs hosts a 24-hour marathon broadcast.

While Terry Wogan hosts the television campaign, presenters at the station, based at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, will play requests and interview Children In Need fund-raisers.

Listeners outside the hospital grounds will also have a rare chance to tune in to the show on 87.9 FM now the station has a temporary licence to broadcast to most of Mid Sussex.

In Brighton and Hove, schools are expected to host a number of fund-raising events involving pupils, while two Brighton students plan to wear only pyjamas for the day.

Animal Care students Becky Spencer, 17, and Courtney Wells, 16, will be shaking buckets at Plumpton College, near Lewes, where they study.

Fashion and food will merge in a fund-raising effort when the Downlands Toby Carvery in Upper Brighton Road, Worthing, hosts a fashion show at 7pm and a raffle, balloon modelling, face-painting and fancy dress from 6.30pm onwards.

The festivities will roll into Sunday when Chichester's Westgate Leisure Centre will hold a sponsored spin, with classes cycling at speed on stationary exercise bikes. The event will run from 11am to 2pm.

On Wednesday Fiona Merry, who starred on Channel 4 show Shipwrecked, joined toddlers at Peacehaven's Children and Family Centre, where youngsters dressed up for the day.

The Children In Need appeal is hosted once a year on the BBC and encourages communities to participate in fund-raising events to help disadvantaged children and young people in Britain.

Last year's appeal raised more than £33 million.

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