# John Lewis partners with Age UK for Christmas advert

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/11/06/john-lewis-partners-with-age-uk-for-christmas-advert/
- Published: 2015-11-06T08:56:48+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**This year’s Christmas TV advert from retailer John Lewis highlights the issue 
of loneliness experienced by many older people at Christmas. Created in partnership
with Age UK, the advert shows how people can “show someone that they’re loved this
Christmas”.** The advert, entitled ‘Man On The Moon’, features a young girl, Lily,
who spots through her telescope a lonely man sitting on a bench on the moon. She
aims to wish him a happy Christmas, and finally succeeds when she sends him up a
gift on some balloons. This brings him to tears. The soundtrack to the advert, which
launched today on John Lewis’ social media channels and which will appear on TV 
from this weekend, is the Oasis song Half The World Away, sung by 19-year-old Norwegian
artist Aurora. The advert cost £1 million to produce, and it is being promoted by
a £6 million media campaign. John Lewis customer director Craig Inglis said:

> “We hope it inspires people to find special gifts and – through our partnership
> with Age UK – raises the issue of loneliness among older people.”

  

  

## Fundraising

 The advert does not mention Age UK and there is no call to give to support the 
charity. Similarly there are no mentions of the charity partnership on John Lewis’
social channels, such as Instagram:  

> [Head to www.johnlewis.com to see our 2015 Christmas ad #ManOnTheMoon](https://www.instagram.com/p/9vGZGoJfdM/)
> A photo posted by John Lewis (@johnlewisretail) on Nov 6, 2015 at 12:02am PST

    or on Pinterest, where last year the company featured a board about the [Monty the Penguin campaign in partnership with WWF UK](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2014/11/08/wwf-uk-benefit-montymania-surrounding-john-lewis-christmas-tv-advert/).
On [John Lewis’ website](http://www.johnlewis.com/christmas-advert/christmascharity?intcmp=motm_hub_ageuk_061115),
however, there is some more information [about the partnership and a ‘donate now’ link](http://www.johnlewis.com/christmas-advert),
which takes you to the charity’s donation page.  

![John Lewis promotes its partnership with Age UK at Christmas](https://www.fundraising.
co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/john-lewis-age-uk-christmas-advert-2015-man.jpg)

John Lewis promotes its partnership with Age UK at Christmas

  

![John Lewis - donate to Age UK](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/
2015/11/john-lewis-age-uk-christmas-advert-2015-donate.jpg)

John Lewis’s website encourages donations to Age UK

  

![Man on the Moon donation page on Age UK's website](https://www.fundraising.co.
uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/john-lewis-age-uk-donation-page-christmas-2015.jpg)

Man on the Moon donation page on Age UK’s website

  

## More fundraising?

 The main emphasis of John Lewis seems to be in supporting Age UK’s ‘No one should
have no one’ campaign by raising awareness of the issue of loneliness, especially
at Christmas time. But there are fundraising elements to the partnership. These 
include: – Donating 25% of the retail price from the sale of every Man on the Moon
mug and Christmas card – Age UK is included in [John Lewis’s Community Matters](http://www.johnlewis.com/our-shops/helping-the-community)
programme for the final part of the year – Fundraising at John Lewis shops and John
Lewis Head Office – Age UK awareness days hosted in John Lewis shops – Including
text to donate message in all John Lewis shops and on [www.johnlewis.com](http://www.johnlewis.com),
with customers able to donate £5 by texting Moon to 70111 In addition, John Lewis
has matched each of its shops with a local Age UK to fund activities such as lunch
clubs  and social events, for those who might otherwise spend the festive season
alone.    Within an hour of the advert being posted to John Lewis’ Facebook page,
it had been shared by over 21,370 people. **• More on [last year’s Christmas ads](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2014/11/27/supermarkets-include-charities-christmas-tv-adverts/)
and their charity connections.**  

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