# Telegraph's Christmas appeal raises over £1 million

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/03/14/telegraph039s-christmas-appeal-raises-over-1-million/
- Published: 2007-03-14T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Telegraph Media Group’s 2006 Christmas Charity Appeal has raised over £1 million
pounds from readers of The Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers and Telegraph.co.
uk.
William Lewis, Editor of The Daily Telegraph, will today be presenting donations
from the appeal to its three beneficiary charities – SSAFA Forces Help, The Microloan
Foundation and Chailey Heritage School.

Lewis said: “We are thrilled to have raised such a phenomenal sum of money, for 
three extremely worthy charities. The generosity of The Daily Telegraph and The 
Sunday Telegraph’s and online readers never ceases to amaze me, and I want to thank
them on behalf of the Telegraph Media Group staff and the charities benefiting from
the appeal”.

The appeal received a huge boost when Telegraph journalists took to the phones to
take donation calls from readers. The phone-in alone raised nearly £120,000 from
nearly 2,000 calls. William Lewis and Patience Wheatcroft, Editor of The Sunday 
Telegraph, joined staff including Hilary Alexander, Henry Winter and Telegraph Cartoonist,
Matt, to handle the calls.

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