Guardian Christmas Appeal last year raised £844,836

Howard Lake | 28 November 2004 | News

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The Guardian’s Christmas Appeal 2003 raised a record £844,836 from its readers. This year’s appeal is getting underway.

The 2003 Guardian Christmas Appeal’s record total was distributed among Medecins Sans Frontieres and charities tackling domestic violence in the UK.

Over the next five weeks The Observer, the Guardian, Guardian Weekly and GuardianUnlimited will be reporting on and encouraging donations to the work of international development charity Concern, together with eight UK-based care organisations. These local organisations were identified by charity research organisation New Philanthropy Capital as those where “donations will have the greatest effect.”

Concern has appointed Anderson Manning Associates (AMA) to handle all the inbound calls and process donations posted in on coupons from the appeal.

• NCT fundraises for its Web site (29 November 2004)
  
• New report for donors and grantmakers on growing older in deprived areas (10 December 2004)
  
• Red Cross launches emergency appeal for South Asian quake victims (26 December 2004)
  

About Howard Lake
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.