Because I haven't uploaded any video from ITV's short-lived and lesser-known Day of Promise for quite a while, I thought I'd grab the remainder of the footage and upload it in bits.
For those who need reminding, here's the original description of the telethon below.
ITV's Day of Promise, and the consequent Year Of Promise, was when the ITV network tried to get people to make helpful promises for the new millennium, from giving blood to helping out in a charity shop one morning every month, climaxing in a telethon between the programmes and Bond films on Bank Holiday Monday 1 May 2000, where people could either telephone into the live show and state their promise on-air to celebrity phoners (if chatting to an S Club 7 member or Home and Away cast member was your thing) or log on to a website and leave your promise on a on-line form there to be put into a national register free of charge. Otherwise, for the princely sum of GBP25, you could have your name and promise inscribed on a Promise Site, situated at major landmarks around the United Kingdom [cheap at half the price! ;-)]. Some viewers didn't get the gist, however, and phoned in to pledge money instead of promises!
A report from Anglia News on that Bank Holiday Monday, introduced by Phil Johnson and reported on by Malcolm Robertson, which showed what happened when ITV's Sonia Saul met Anglia's Caroline Oldrey at Southend Pier to see how the East of England was helping out ITV's Day of Promise, including the Rock of Southend lifeboat station's promise for the new Millennium. Wonder if that Promise board is still at Southend Pier?
