# News Corp donates £100,000 to UK charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/07/07/news-corp-donates-100000-uk-charities/
- Published: 2017-07-07T09:29:17+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Refuge, Mary’s Meals, Buttle UK and Whizz-Kidz are each receiving an equal share
of £100,000 from News Corp.**

This is the third year in a row that News Corp has donated the sum to UK charities,
with each of the four receiving £25,000. The donation is part of its annual News
Corp Giving fund, which is designed to benefit charities in the communities where
employees at News Corp’s UK-based companies live and work. Employees at Dow Jones,
HarperCollins UK and News UK selected the four beneficiaries from a shortlist of
seven charitable organisations.

Receiving the highest number of votes, [Refuge](http://www.refuge.org.uk/) will
use its £25,000 to cover the costs of a child support worker over the next year,
helping around 75 children and their mothers to rebuild their lives. [Mary’s Meals](https://www.marysmeals.org.uk/)
will put News Corp’s donation towards giving 1,600 chronically hungry children at
Chembera Primary School in Malawi a meal every day for the next year.

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Supporting [Buttle UK’s](http://www.buttleuk.org/) “Chances for Children Campaign,”
News Corp’s donation will help 40 vulnerable children from across the UK, while 
[Whizz-Kidz](http://www.whizz-kidz.org.uk/) will use the funding to create 100 opportunities
on its Wheelchair Skills Training sessions

More than 1,000 employees from across the three companies, including those at News
Corp UK’s London Bridge headquarters, Unruly, Wireless, News UK’s print site in 
Broxbourne and HarperCollins’ Glasgow distribution centre, voted for the charities
they thought deserving of the funding.

Now in its third year, the initiative also offers opportunities for employees of
Dow Jones, HarperCollins UK and News UK to get involved in volunteering, fundraising
and long-term support.

Rebekah Brooks, News UK CEO, said:

> “Each year News Corp has donated money to charities nominated by our staff, offering
> them the opportunity to support causes they feel strongly about. Our staff will
> follow the progress of these worthy projects and I hope this funding will make
> a real impact on the charities.”

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