# Comic Relief's Web site likely to generate significant income

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/03/05/comic-relief039s-web-site-likely-generate-significant-income/
- Published: 2001-03-05T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Comic Relief’s Web site for this year’s “Say Pants to Poverty” campaign is set to
raise record breaking sums online.
Comic Relief’s Web site for this year’s campaign
is estimated to have cost £1 million – if the charity had had to pay for the hardware
and technical skills. In fact, it was all donated.

 

 

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Tech companies including Cisco, Oracle, Energis, BT and Compaq have all donated 
their products and services to create the most advanced online fundraising site 
to date. The online donation handling facility was created by Cisco with NatWest
Streamline Merchant Services, and is designed to handle up to 200 consecutive donations
a second.

 

 

 

 

Read “Charity’s great pantathon” by Imogen O’Rorke at SocietyGuardian.

 

 

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