In 2016 Sport Relief raised £55m. Next month’s appeal will be a big test of public faith in all UK charities and overseas aid
There’s a sense of resignation across the voluntary sector that the Oxfam scandal will trigger a fall in donations to charities. You have to feel for British Red Cross, Plan International UK and Médecins Sans Frontières, whose pre-booked flyers for unrelated appeals tumbled out of weekend newspapers carrying the latest lurid revelations.
The big test of the public mood will come next month with Sport Relief, the biennial appeal run by Comic Relief in association with BBC Sport, which this year is scheduled to run for an entire week, from 17 to 23 March. A linked gameshow, And They’re Off for Sport Relief, designed to promote it, began a six-week run on BBC One last Saturday, straight after a news bulletin that led on Oxfam.
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