Gordon Brown Launches Christian Aid Week

Gordon Brown Launches Christian Aid Week May 15, 2019

Gordon Brown today launched Christian Aid Week 2019 at an event in London in which he spoke powerfully about the moral and ethical need for aid and international development, made the case against nationalism and isolation and praised the charity’s work across the world. More
Joanna Lumley Fronts Nepal Earthquake Appeal

Joanna Lumley Fronts Nepal Earthquake Appeal May 1, 2015

The UK public has donated over £19 million to the Disasters Emergency Committee Nepal Earthquake Appeal, a day after it was launched. More
Charities Praise David Cameron's Olympics Hunger Event

Charities Praise David Cameron's Olympics Hunger Event Aug 12, 2012

Britain’s leading aid and development charities have welcomed the progress made at Prime Minister David Cameron's Olympics Hunger Event, and urged world leaders to keep the global food crisis at the top of their agenda in the run-up to next year’s G8 summit in the UK. More
Stars Donate Garden Tools To Christian Aid Charity Auction

Stars Donate Garden Tools To Christian Aid Charity Auction May 16, 2012

Tali Lennox, Alan Titchmarsh and TOWIE’s Lydia Bright are among a host of famous names who have used their creative talents to support this year’s Christian Aid Week. More
Tali Lennox Visits Sierra Leone With Christian Aid

Tali Lennox Visits Sierra Leone With Christian Aid May 14, 2012

Award-winning model Tali Lennox recently visited Sierra Leone, one of the world’s poorest countries, as a Christian Aid Week (13-19 May) ambassador. Around half of all Sierra Leoneans are forced to try to survive on the equivalent of just 80p a day, with more than half the country’s population relying on subsistence farming for their income. More
Madness Singer Launches Big Christmas Sing For Charity

Madness Singer Launches Big Christmas Sing For Charity Nov 9, 2011

On 9 November, Madness frontman Suggs and 2008 X Factor finalist Laura White will launch Christian Aid's Big Christmas Sing with a free concert at Old Spitalfields Market. Suggs will host the event and perform his Christmas hit ‘Sleigh Bells’. More
Madness Singer To Host Charity Big Christmas Sing

Madness Singer To Host Charity Big Christmas Sing Oct 27, 2011

Madness frontman Suggs will follow in Olly Murs and Beverley Knight's footsteps by launching this year’s Christian Aid Big Christmas Sing. More
Hayley Atwell Visits Nicaragua For Christian Aid Week

Hayley Atwell Visits Nicaragua For Christian Aid Week May 16, 2011

Hayley Atwell, one of the UK’s most successful young film actresses, (Brideshead Revisited, The Duchess and 2011 summer blockbuster Captain America) is supporting this year’s Christian Aid Week (May 15-21) which aims to ‘help people in poverty, out of poverty’ by supporting community projects in some of the world’s poorest countries. More
Hugh Jackman Gives Up Coffee And Sugar For Charity

Hugh Jackman Gives Up Coffee And Sugar For Charity Apr 20, 2011

Hugh Jackman has vowed to give up coffee and sugar for a new charity campaign that encourages people to try and live on £1 a week to raise awareness of the 1.4 billion people around the world who live below the poverty line. More
LTTS Photo Gallery: Lily Cole Visits Burmese Refugees

LTTS Photo Gallery: Lily Cole Visits Burmese Refugees Nov 30, 2010

Christian Aid recently took model and actress Lily Cole to the Nai Soi Camp in Mae Hong Son, in Thailand, three miles from the Burmese border. There are 145,000 Burmese refugees living in nine camps along the border in Thailand, some of whom have been there for 26 years. More
Omid Djalili To Be Quiz Master For Charity

Omid Djalili To Be Quiz Master For Charity Aug 19, 2010

Award-winning comedian and actor Omid Djalili has accepted a new role as QuizAid Master for Christian Aid's first ever Twitter Quiz. More
Beverley Knight To Perform At The Big Christmas Sing

Beverley Knight To Perform At The Big Christmas Sing Nov 24, 2009

Hundreds of ice skaters will join three-time MOBO award-winner Beverley Knight in a free charity Christmas performance at 5.30pm on Thursday 3rd December, at the Natural History Museum ice rink in South Kensington, London. More
British Celebrities To Run For Christian Aid

British Celebrities To Run For Christian Aid Sep 16, 2009

A host of British celebrities are set to take part in a run for fun being held in Newcastle, UK, this weekend. More
British Soap Star Gets Quizzing For Christian Aid Week

British Soap Star Gets Quizzing For Christian Aid Week Apr 1, 2009

British actress and Eastenders star Kara Tointon is helping put the fun into fundraising by backing this year’s nationwide Quizaid during Christian Aid Week (10 – 16 May 2009), which aims to raise vital funds for the world’s poorest communities. More
Danielle Lloyd Shops For A Good Cause

Danielle Lloyd Shops For A Good Cause Dec 12, 2008

Celebrities famed for their extreme shopping could be feeling a little more saintly this year thanks to a new online shopping service that could turn them into some of the Britain’s biggest charity givers. More
Celebrities Listen For Disadvantaged Children

Celebrities Listen For Disadvantaged Children Jan 3, 2008

A huge and exciting new global media campaign has kicked off to raise awareness and funds for some of the world’s most disadvantaged children. More