Financial Times seasonal appeal raises £1.4m for World Child Cancer
The Financial Times raised £1.4m in a seasonal appeal for London-based charity World Child Cancer (WCC).
Charity: The FT appeal raised £1.4m
The campaign ran from November last year until the end of January and the FT highlighted the charity’s work in Malawi, Ghana, Columbia and Myanmar. The FT has conducted seasonal appeals since 2006 and raised over £14m for charity. The UK government has matched the money raised pound for pound.
Lionel Barber, editor of the FT, said: “Once again, I have been struck by the generosity of our readers and the dedication of our staff in supporting an important cause.”
Allison Ogden-Newton, WCC chief executive, added: “Money raised from the seasonal appeal will enable WCC to expand our work in Malawi, Ghana and Bangladesh and even extend our project work to Myanmar, which is a new country for us with a desperate need for help with treating children with cancer.”
The charity estimates that around 100,000 children a year die of cancer with the vast majority in the developing world.