Challenge Anneka - Season 2

In 2 days, a simultaneous party for six thousand needy children was organised in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales to coincide with the Paul O'Gorman Leukaemia Foundation's annual party in Battersea Park.

In 2 days, a pool was made for orphan seals at the Middlebank Centre for the SSPCA.

An old disused stables at a farm near Buxton were converted into a riding centre for the disabled. Challenge succeeded but riding centre subsequently closed because of legal problems between the charity and the landowner.

A low water quay was built on the island of Bryher in the Scilly Isles. The challenge was completed a day late due to the bad weather.

An old Dutch barge was transformed into floating education centre for the community of Richmond in Surrey.

The Happisburgh Lighthouse was painted from top to bottom after Trinity House passed responsibility for its upkeep to the local village.

Anneka and the team took on possibly their biggest challenge when they were given the task of renovating an orphanage in Siret which was home to 600 children, all living in appalling conditions. There was no sanitation or electricity and many of the children were seriously ill and emotionally and physically abused. The babies lived three to a cot in filthy rags and it was impossible to tell the children's ages or sex as they all had shaved heads and were so undernourished. The workforce from the UK pledged to make Siret a long term plan and made yearly visits to carry on renovation and repairs, not only in the orphanage but in the nearby town as well.

The pantomime Cinderella was staged in Newcastle in 2 days with a cast entirely composed of members of the public for the benefit of local needy children and the elderly.

In 2 days an unused ward at Rochford Hospital in Essex was converted into a reminiscence centre for elderly patients.

The conversion of a chapel in Telford into a hostel for homeless teenagers was completed in just 24 hours.