# Charities to receive bulk of ITV's premium rate service repayments

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/03/08/charities-receive-bulk-itv039s-premium-rate-service-repayments/
- Published: 2008-03-08T09:35:09+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has advised ITV on distributing the money that 
the broadcaster promised to reimburse following the premium rate phone-in competition
scandals last year.**

The vast majority of the £7.8 million of revenue involved is being donated to charity
now that the reimbursement process has closed and all the forms from members of 
the public have been processed.

CAF says that it has helped ITV to follow its principal guiding objective of reaching
into “as many UK communities and touch as many individual lives as possible” to 
help tackle significant current needs and issues.

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CAF advised ITV by suggesting a range of charities with a national footprint and
strong presence in local communities and smaller, regionally based charities. ITV’s
Executive team chose charities from this list and the beneficiaries will be contacted
shortly.

ITV announced in October 2007 that it would be reimbursing viewers who had been 
affected by the premium rate service problems highlighted in a report by auditors
Deloitte.

www.cafonline.org/grants

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