# Celebrity Big Brother raises £480,000 for 11 charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/02/01/celebrity-big-brother-raises-480000-11-charities/
- Published: 2006-02-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**During the 23-day run of this year’s Celebrity Big Brother, nearly 3 million votes
were cast, with part of the fees being donated to the contestants’ charities.**

This is a considerable increase on last year’s series which raised £262,000 for 
charity with 1,048,007 votes cast during the 18-day event.

George Galloway MP raised around £30,000 for his chosen charity, the Palestinian
aid agency Interpal. He told The Times that he expected his appearance on the programme
to help generate up to £1.3 million for the charity.

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