# X Factor finalists' single to benefit ACT and Children's Hospices UK

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/10/12/x-factor-finalists039-single-benefit-act-and-children039s-hospices-uk/
- Published: 2011-10-12T11:00:01+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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The 16 finalists from this year’s X Factor TV series will be releasing a charity
single in aid of ACT & Children’s Hospices UK. They will perform a cover version
of Rose Royce’s ‘Wishing On A Star’. The finalists will record the single in London
this week, and it will be available via download from 20 November and as a single
one day later.

All net record company proceeds from sales of the single will go to ACT & Children’s
Hospices UK.

ACT & Children’s Hospices UK works to ensure that every life-limited and life-threatened
child, young person and their family gets the best possible care and support from
the moment of diagnosis, wherever they live and for as long as they need it.

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Simon Cowell said: “Having worked close hand with this charity and seeing the amazing
work they do for kids and their families who need help and support, I am thrilled
that the X Factor charity single this year will benefit this charity.”

The single is the fourth charity release from X Factor, following last year’s cover
of David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’, 2009’s cover of Michael Jacksons’s ‘You Are Not Alone,’
which supported Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital and 2008’s ‘Hero’ which 
raised over £1.3 million for the ‘Help For Heroes’ charity.

www.actchildhospice.org.uk

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