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Christian Aid Week 2006 launched

Howard Lake | 25 February 2006 | News

 

This year’s Christian Aid Week, the oldest door-to-door collection campaign in the UK, has been launched with the slogan “You Add. We Multiply”.

Music star Beverly Knight, actor Damian Lewis, and former EastEnders’ star and Strictly Come Dancing winner Jill Halfpenny have helped launch this year’s fundraising week.

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Last year, Christian Aid Week collectors and supporters raised more than £14.8 million. More than seven million people get involved in Christian Aid Week with around 350,000 volunteers taking part in door-to-door collections using the famous Christian Aid red envelope.

 

 

The campaign first started in 1957, making it the oldest door-to-door collection campaign in the UK.

 

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