# Camelot's Dianne Thompson raises £1 million for ChildLine

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/03/19/camelot039s-dianne-thompson-raises-1-million-childline/
- Published: 2007-03-19T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

A fundraising initiative led by Dianne Thompson CBE, Chief Executive of National
Lottery operator Camelot Group plc, has raised £1 million for ChildLine, the free
24-hour helpline for children and young people.
Thompson set up the ChildLine Foundation
in 2004 with the aim of raising £1 million for ChildLine, a service of the NSPCC,
to allow the charity to answer more calls and train more volunteers so that every
child who needs help can get help.

Members of the ChildLine Foundation Committee included James Cracknell, double Olympic
gold medal-winning rower, Sly Bailey, Chief Executive, Trinity Mirror PLC and Mark
Bolland, Media & Marketing Communications Consultant, formerly Deputy Private Secretary
to HRH The Prince of Wales. They were joined by other business leaders and National
Lottery winners Tom and Rita Naylor, Elaine Thompson and Yvonne Lawrence.

Thompson said: “I am delighted that the ChildLine Foundation has reached its target
of raising £1 million for ChildLine and extremely grateful to all those companies
and individuals who have supported us, through pledges and a wide range of fundraising
initiatives.

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“Everyone has risen enthusiastically to the challenge of raising this huge sum, 
in the knowledge that are supporting such a worthwhile cause.”

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