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It’s the second week of our Christmas campaign to help raise £30m for good causes and we have five more celebrities sharing vital messages about the charities they support.
HELLO! has partnered with Big Give’s Christmas Challenge, which matches donations made through its platform pound for pound, doubling the amount raised.
A recent poll has found that 25% of people plan to give less to charity this Christmas because of the cost-of-living crisis, while 20% can’t afford to donate at all. But with a pot of £15m in matched funds available from philanthropists, foundations and companies, Big Give hopes to support more than 1,000 charities and fill the gap.
Here, stars including Dame Shirley Bassey and Jenny Agutter talk about the charity that means most to them – and Dame Joanna Lumley writes exclusively for HELLO! about her passion project.
Big Give’s Christmas Challenge closes at midday on 5 December.
To find out more, visit hellomagazine.com/big-give.
DAME SHIRLEY BASSEY Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital
Dame Shirley Bassey is fiercely proud of her Welsh roots and adores the children in her life, so when she heard about an appeal to build a children’s hospital for Wales, she auctioned off 50 of her gowns to support the cause.
Twenty years later, Dame Shirley is a proud patron of Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital Charity, which opened the doors to its state-of-the-art facility in
