Wealthiest women in UK
Howard Lake | 20 August 2000 | News
JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, is now Britain’s highest-paid woman, according to a new list. The Times reports that she earned £20.5 million last year. Sixty four women earned more than £1 million in the past year, including computer company founder Nikki Beckett (£14.03m), property magnate Winifred Linnett (£9.76m), advertiser Diane Beford (£5.49m), and Carol Vorderman (£2.8m)
Read Harry Potter author nets £20m, by Linus Gregoriadis at The Times.
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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.