The charities being supported by this year’s appeal are: Action for Children, Age UK, Macmillan Cancer Support and Royal British Legion Industries (RBLI).
The appeal was launched on Saturday November 5 and will remain operating until January 2023. Donations can be made online https://telegraph.ctdonate.org/
The Telegraph’s annual Christmas Charity Appeal started in its current format back in 1986 and has raised almost £30 million for deserving charities since its launch.
Incidentally Telegraph readers have a long and honoured history of fundraising which included in 1915 raising funds for a monument for nurse Edith Cavell, which can still be found outside St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, just off Trafalgar Square.
They also set up the Edith Cavell Trust to help nurses impacted by their work during times of war. war.
Whilst in 1916 during the First World War, Telegraph readers’ donations helped supply 3,000,000 rations of plum-puddings for British soldiers on Christmas Day.
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