Volunteers at the CHEO telethon will take your donations to help children in need of hospital care. They're hoping to better the record-setting $6,175,843 raised last year.

The 27th annual telethon will run from 7 p.m. Saturday to 7 p.m. Sunday on CTV Ottawa. CTV Ottawa News at 6 anchors Graham Richardson and Carole Anne Meehan, Weekend News anchor Kimothy Walker and a number of other CTV personalities will take part in the telethon, which is helmed by former CTV Ottawa news anchor Max Keeping.

The Canadian War Museum will host the event for the first time. The telethon has raised more than $60 million since its first year in 1984.

The money helps fund research, purchase new equipment, train staff, create a more child- and youth-friendly environment, enhance the paediatric nature of the hospital, and assist families in crisis.