TODAY marks a milestone for the BBC's Comic Relief spectacular.
It's 35 years since the first live fundraising event, on April 4, 1986.
The extravaganza had been founded the previous year by comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Sir Lenny Henry, in response to the famine in Ethiopia.
And in the three and half decades since, Comic Relief has raised more than £1.4 billion for good causes across the UK and Africa.
It's all about having fun and making the world a better place and, true to form, the event has always been well supported by kind-hearted people from across Colchester and Tendring.
We've dipped into our photo archive to pick out ten of our favourite pictures from the last decade.
* Are you doing anything special to celebrate and raise funds for this year's event?
If so, email matt.plummer@newsquest.co.uk or attach some details below.
Ray of light - Jamie and Morgan David, five-year-old twins from Lexden, produced 'happy pictures' and sold them for charity after being moved by Comic Relief videos. The smiling siblings are pictured in 2015
Keen as custard - Jodean Speller and daughter Hannah, then ten, bathed in custard outside their house in Great Notley, in 2011
Every penny counts - Joanna Warner organised a tabletop sale in Arnold Drive, Colchester, in 2011
Taking things to a new level - students at Stanway School walked up flights of stairs equivalent to the height of Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania. They are pictured with teacher John Bland in 2011
Random wax of kindness - James Sheffield, an accountant at Seatrade Communications, in Colchester, had his chest waxed at Studio 33, in North Station Road, in 2011
Still going song - the Funky Voices choir released charity single Relight my Fire for Red Nose Day in 2013. The Mercury Theatre, in Colchester, was converted into a recording studio featuring 600 singers. Director Sandra Colston is pictured here
A bald move - Joy Harrison had her head shaved at Ardleigh Surgery, in Dedham Road, in 2013. Also pictured is hairdresser Emma Thrower
We've got what it cakes - Comic Relief day at Ego Hair and Beauty, in Colchester. Staff dressed up and baked cakes in 2013
Famous faces - Broomgrove Junior School, in Wivenhoe, had a visit from children's TV presenters Johnny Cochrane and Inel Tomlinson during their assembly in 2013
Enough head - Danielle Nash shaved Scott Bowes and Paul Roche at Sainsbury's in Halstead in 2013
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