Hilton Hotel guests raise £129,746 with small change
Howard Lake | 6 March 2008 | News
Hilton hotel guests have helped to raise £129,746 with their small change in the hotel chain’s ‘Small Change Big Difference’ campaign.
From October 2007 to January 2008, Hilton guests were invited to add £1 onto their room bill to be donated to the campaign’s charity, Children with Leukaemia.
Since its launch in 2004, this campaign has raised nearly £700,000 so far. Previous beneficiaries have been Barnardo’s and Teenage Cancer Trust, which each received £100,000 in 2004, ChildLine which received £168,848 in 2005 and the Association of Children’s Hospices which received £195,830 in 2006, to be distributed equally between each of the UK’s 39 registered children’s hospice services.
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In Ireland, the campaign has run since 2005, with €5,000 being raised for the ISPCC’s Childline service, and in 2006 €9,202 was raised for The Children’s Sunshine Home in Dublin. In 2007, €8,619 has been raised and will help Irish Autism Action to establish a helpline, to build on its network of support and activities for children with autism and their siblings, parents and carers.
www.hilton-foundation.org.uk
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- Princess Royal Trust for Carers chosen as charity of the year (10 March 2008)
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.