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The Independent’s Christmas Appeal to help people on the breadline cope better with the cost of living crisis has passed the £3.2m mark, thanks to online public donations and an accumulation of off-line five-figure donations to our charity partner The Childhood Trust that together amount to over £100,000.
It means that today, the final day of our partnership with The Childhood Trust, we can announce that this specific alliance has raised £1.2m for our appeal, surpassing our initial goal of securing £1m to support children in poverty in London, following the initial £500,000 pledge from their founder Grant Gordon.
Together with the £2m raised by our other charity partner, Comic Relief, the total since we launched three weeks ago now exceeds £3.2m. Our partnership with Comic Relief will continue to seek to increase this pot for another two weeks in the run up …