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Fi Glover hears about lives that have been improved by Children in Need grants to charities ranging from theatre groups to those offering support for victims of domestic violence.

In Scotland nine year old Matthew attends the theatre-based project Arts in Merkinch, while Stephanie has been helped to come to terms with her mother's death her counsellor at the Bridges Project in East Lothian. And from Stoke on Trent comes a conversation between Sarah and her 11-year-old daughter Maria (not their real names), who fled an abusive home five years ago and have been helped by Voices of Experience to create some of the happy memories that are the right of any child.

The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not 大象传媒 interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Many of the long conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject

Producer: Marya Burgess.