Comic Relief face bloody nose?
Howard Lake | 11 March 1999 | News
Comic Relief have already a legal threat, as reported by UK Fundraising last month, but now they are on the receiving end of a boycott. A Roman Catholic primary school headmaster has “banned Red Nose Day” at his school because of Comic Relief’s funding of family planning charities.
Comic Relief have already a legal threat, as reported by UK Fundraising last month, but now they are on the receiving end of a boycott. A Roman Catholic primary school headmaster has “banned Red Nose Day” at his school because of Comic Relief’s funding of family planning charities. Not surprisingly, his action has been widely reported by the national press and radio. Comic Relief state that since 1985 less than 1% of their grants have been given to family planning charities. The charity has received criticisms in the past from some campaigners who claim that Comic Relief pays for abortions, an allegation that the charity categorically denies.
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.