Guardian's Christmas 2006 appeal raises £320,000
Howard Lake | 17 January 2007 | News
The Guardian Christmas Appeal has raised £266,542 which, when Gift Aid is aided, totals around £320,000.
The money was donated by readers of the Guardian, Guardian Weekly and its Guardian Unlimited website.
Practical Action will receive around £189,000 from the appeal, and the mental health charities selected for the appeal by New Philanthropy Capital, will receive around £131,000. Donors could choose which of the causes they wished their donation to benefit, or indeed split it equally between them.
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The articles about the appeal and the beneficiary charities will remain on The Guardian’s website and donations can still be made.
At the weekend, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger thanked readers “for making another annual appeal such a success.”
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.