Social Investments
We are proud of the change we have been able to achieve over the past 20 years or so thanks to the support, enthusiasm and generosity of the public.
Comic Relief was set up to increase the size of the charity cake and, over the years, hundreds of thousands of people who don't normally give, have been moved to donate. Many of those new givers have donated directly to other charities too as a result of our campaigns.
We completely support the giving of donations directly to smaller individual charities or organisations as well, of course, as giving money to Comic Relief.
Our role is, and always has been, to give the wider public a place to give money safe in the knowledge that it will be used to do good in a number of ways.
Another founding objective was to help smaller charities who don't have the means to raise either cash or the profile of their issue on any great scale - so receiving money from Comic Relief means that they can get on with the business of changing lives.
