# Comic Relief uses Web billing to fundraise online

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/03/15/comic-relief-uses-web-billing-fundraise-online/
- Published: 2001-03-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Comic Relief is encouraging online followers of the Celebrity Big Brother programme
to vote online for the housemates. To ensure that online votes still raise the 15.5p
that normal telephone voters raise, the charity has teamed up with Global Internet
Billing. Online voters are disconnected from their ISP and reconnected to a premium
rate ‘phone number. Comic Relief explains how it works to would-be voters at the
Big Brother page.
Comic Relief is encouraging online followers of the Celebrity 
Big Brother programme to vote online for the housemates. To ensure that online votes
still raise the 15.5p that normal telephone voters raise, the charity has teamed
up with Global Internet Billing. Online voters are disconnected from their ISP and
reconnected to a premium rate ‘phone number. Comic Relief explains how it works 
to would-be voters at the [Big Brother page.](http://www.comicrelief.com/bigbrother/voting/index.html)

 

 

## Advertisement

 [⌊Posthub advert. You create the campaign. We'll handle the postal journey. Get started at post-hub.co.uk.⌉](https://fundraising.co.uk/ads/posthub-20261007-300x250/)

 

 

Web billing has been a very underused facility by charities, with most focusing 
on credit cards as the main method of online donations. Read UK Fundraising’s coverage
from April 2000.

 

 

 

 

 * **[AOL UK supports Fairbridge](https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/03/15/aol-uk-supports-fairbridge/)**(
   15 March 2001)
 * **[Microsoft donates banner ad space on MSN](https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/03/15/microsoft-donates-banner-ad-space-msn/)**(
   15 March 2001)
 * **[Hospitality Action signs affiliate deal with restaurant site](https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/03/15/hospitality-action-signs-affiliate-deal-restaurant-site/)**(
   15 March 2001)