Celebrities design phones to raise funds for ChildLine
Howard Lake | 7 October 2005 | News
Celebrities including Kate Winslet, Richard E Grant and Simon Cowell have designed special phones to raise funds for ChildLine as part of BT’s Big Listen Week (10-16 October).
The phone creations are being showcased and auctioned online for 10 days.
The creations all take the BT Freestyle 4500 SMS as their base. Some of the phones designed even come with a personalised answerphone message from the celebrity designer.
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The BT Big Listen Week is designed to encourage more adults to listen to young children, as well as raise funds for ChildLine. This is the third annual Big Listen Week, which is part of BT’s ”Am I Listening?” campaign, which has already raised more than £3.3 million for ChildLine.
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.