Guardian and Observer’s 2012 Christmas appeal supports eight disability charities
Howard Lake | 30 November 2012 | News
This year’s Guardian and Observer Christmas Appeal will benefit eight charities that strive for disability rights. They help people with a disability or long-term illness to participate, express themselves and fulfill their potential, in education, arts, the workplace, sport and wider society.
Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger said: “Our Christmas appeal is a chance to raise much needed funds for our charities – last year Guardian and Observer readers generously raised over £400,000 for eight charities supporting vulnerable young people – and to raise the profile of the work they do.”
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For the sixth year running charity sector think-tank New Philanthropy Capital has helped the Guardian and Observer choose the charities for the appeal. It applied its experience of measuring charity impact and its research in disability areas to selecting the final eight charities, two of which operate internationally. They are:
- Oily Cart
- Sense International
- Disability Law Service
- Greenbank
- Ambitious about Autism
- The ACE Centre
- QEF
- Basic Needs
www.guardian.co.uk/society/christmas-charity-appeal-2012
- New York Times’ fund looks outward to support neediest outside the USA (17 November 2016)
- Daily Telegraph Christmas appeal raises almost £150,000 for Blue Cross (5 April 2017)
- FT Seasonal Appeal open for applications until 10 April (3 April 2019)
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.