# One month on from the Turkey & Syria earthquakes – fundraising update

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/03/06/one-month-on-from-the-turkey-syria-earthquakes-fundraising-update/
- Published: 2023-03-06T16:14:21+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Today marks one month since the first Türkiye and Syria earthquakes, which struck
south-eastern Turkey near the border with Syria on Monday 6 February.**

Since then, the [DEC appeal](https://donation.dec.org.uk/turkey-syria-earthquake-appeal),
[launched on 9 February](https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/02/09/dec-launches-emergency-earthquake-appeal/),
has reached £101.5 million, including £5mn in UK Aid Match. As well as this appeal,
many other nonprofits and organisations have also been fundraising to help those
affected.

Over [on JustGiving](https://justgiving.com/inspiration/how-to-help/turkey-and-syria-earthquake),
£10.7mn has so far been raised across the appeals on the platform. This includes
almost £2.5mn for the Turkey Mozaik Foundation’s appeal, over £109,000 for Oxfam’s,
and almost £510,000 for Islamic Relief’s.

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Glastonbury’s [fundraising ticket draw](https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/win-glastonbury-tickets-support-turkey-syria-oxfam),
through which it is donating 10 sets of tickets, each with once-in-a-lifetime experiences
to raise money for the DEC’s appeal with Oxfam, is set to hit its target of £1mn
today, with the total currently standing at over £998,000.

The [Sun’s appeal](https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/sun-earthquake-aid), launched
to support the British Red Cross, has raised over £1.4mn, with Dragon’s Den star
Touker Suleyman recently donating £100,000 to it.

[Choose Love’s appeal](https://donate.chooselove.org/campaigns/emergency-earthquake-appeal/)
has now reached over £3.6mn, and a month on from the first earthquakes, it has announced
that its donors have pledged a further $200,000 matchfund.

Over [on the Big Give](https://donate.thebiggive.org.uk/campaign/a056900002PonQFAAZ),
over £1.9mn has been raised, including match funding.

Elsewhere, easyJet customers have raised over £300,000 to support UNICEF’s Türkiye
and Syria earthquake appeal. The emergency onboard collection by easyJet’s cabin
crew has now been extended into March, enabling customers flying with easyJet across
36 countries in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East to donate in any currency.
Donations will go directly towards supporting UNICEF’s round-the-clock emergency
response in the region. 

The National Guild of SPAR has donated £25,000 to the Disasters Emergency Committee(
DEC) Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal, on behalf of SPAR retailers around the UK.

People in Guernsey have donated more than £31,000 to the[ Bailiff’s Disaster Relief Fund](https://www.islandfm.com/news/guernsey/two-appeals-to-help-earthquake-victims/),
which opened last month. The funds will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee.

According to the DEC, 50,000 people have died in Turkey and Syria, with many thousands
injured, and 18 million in the affected areas, many of whom need support with shelter,
food and medical aid.

 * **[DEC Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal passes £150mn](https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/08/03/dec-turkey-syria-earthquake-appeal-passes-150mn/)**(
   3 August 2023)
 * **[More than three quarters of UK workers want employers to play active role during UK disasters](https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/12/05/more-than-three-quarters-of-uk-workers-want-employers-to-play-active-role-during-uk-disasters/)**(
   5 December 2023)
 * **[DEC releases new appeal film as Middle East Humanitarian Appeal tops £20mn](https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/10/28/dec-releases-new-appeal-film-as-middle-east-humanitarian-appeal-tops-20mn/)**(
   28 October 2024)

## Comments

### By: HowardLake

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/03/06/one-month-on-from-the-turkey-syria-earthquakes-fundraising-update/#comment-4450
- Published: 2023-03-13T06:48:40+00:00

‘Chefs Up’, hosted by Andi Oliver, brought together some of the biggest chefs in
London’s food scene to help raise funds for Action Against Hunger in response to
the Syria & Türkiye earthquake in February 2023\.

Angela Hartnett, Neil Borthwick, Robin Gill, Sabor’s Nieves Barragán as well as 
Francesco Mazzei, took over the restaurant Darby’s in Wandsworth to cook up some
food, and fundraising, for Action Against Hunger – the international charity predicting,
preventing and treating life-threatening hunger.

The event raised £140,090.

[https://www.actionagainsthunger.org.uk/](https://www.actionagainsthunger.org.uk/)