Red Nose Day 2013 total passes £100 million

Howard Lake | 11 September 2013 | News

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Red Nose Day 2013 has now raised £100,331,808. On the night of 15 March, the campaign raised over £75 million. Since then, the total has risen even more, to cement the record-breaking income achieved in the campaign’s 25th anniversary year.

In addition to individuals’ donations, substantial sums raised include:

• £2 million from proceeds from the official Red Nose Day single by One Direction and the band’s fundraising efforts.
  
• £11.6 million from Sainsbury’s through the sale of merchandise and staff and customer fundraising activities
  
• £3.7 million from TK Maxx through the sale of Stella McCartney designed t-shirts and a range of Emma Bridgewater designed homeware, plus staff fundraising
  
• £2 million from British Airways raised through on-board collections, staff fundraising and breaking a Guinness World Record for the highest concert in the world.
• Over £2.3 million through BT’s two Red Nose Challenges, The BT Red Nose Challenge: Hell and High Water, and The BT Red Nose Challenge: Miranda’s Mad March.

Lenny Henry, Trustee of Comic Relief, said: “It’s undeniable that many people are facing their own difficulties at the moment, making the generosity of the public who fundraised and donated to get the total to over £100 million even more breath-taking. Red Nose Day shows the compassion of the public and their commitment to helping poor and vulnerable people both here in the UK and across Africa.”

The money raised, in a recession, by the British Public for Red Nose Day 2013 has just gone over A HUNDRED MILLION POUNDS. #staggering

— emma freud (@emmafreud) September 10, 2013

Photo: Gus Gregory

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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.