# Comic Relief accepts online donations for first time

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1997/03/24/comic-relief-accepts-online-donations-first-time/
- Published: 1997-03-24T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Comic Relief is now for the first time accepting secure online donations courtesy
of BT WebWorld.
[Comic Relief](http://www.comicrelief.org.uk) is also running the
[Red Site Day](http://www.comicrelief.org.uk/red.html) whereby they are encouraging
supporters to add one of a selection of logos to their own web pages, the “first
ever Net-wide charity site link up.”

And the [result](http://www.comicrelief.org.uk/newsroom/comedy.html)? “On the night,
through BT WebWorld technology, a fantastic £10,000 in donations were taken on the
World Wide Web and since then the figure has shot up to £26,000 with an average 
donation of £27 per person”.

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