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Countess of Wessex backs new Jill Dando charity

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Howard Lake | 15 March 2000 | News

Sophie, Countess of Wessex, is backing a new charity set up in memory of murdered TV presenter Jill Dando. The Jill Dando Fund aims to create a £5 million crime prevention institute at University College London.

Read Sophie backs new Jill Dando charity by Sarah Shannon at The Evening Standard.

Incidentally, the Jill Dando Fund has opted for a .com domain name rather than a .org address, yet further evidence that the distinction between domain name suffixes is breaking down.

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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.

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