The Sun’s Who Cares Wins appeal raised over £1million as an extension of its annual NHS awards. From care packages to vital equipment, the donations went to NHS Charities Together’s Covid-19 Urgent Appeal, helping hospital staff on the front line.

The Sun’s Fabulous magazine has also sent care packages with £500,000 worth of cosmetics to NHS staff through the Fabulous NHS Care Package initiative.

Our COO team took part in a tree planting day with our News Corp Giving charity partners Trees for Cities, at Ashton Playing Fields in Woodford, Essex.

The team planted 1800 trees across the day, to help block out the M11 motorway from the sports fields and increase the biodiversity of the area. The total number of trees planted was more than any other group has planted for Trees for Cities in one day. You can read more about Trees for Cities on their website and join one of their existing volunteer days.

talkSPORT supported Manchester United and England star, Marcus Rashford’s #ENDCHILDFOODPOVERTY campaign with a talkSPORT takeover of FareShare to include coverage of the cause across the day on the station.

Throughout the day the talkSPORT family visited various FareShare Centres across the UK and broadcast live to highlight the need for more volunteers throughout lockdown. 

talkSPORT Breakfast was live from FareShare UK HQ in Deptford, London, with Laura Woods, Ally McCoist and Carlton Cole with Steve Harmison joining live from the Newcastle Centre to share their experiences with listeners whilst talking all things sport.

Virgin Radio UK’s Chris Evans and over 50 generous listeners headed off to the Amsterdam Marathon in aid of raising funds for Dementia Revolution.

The live charity auction of VIP places at the Amsterdam Marathon took place on Chris Evans’ Virgin Radio UK breakfast show in August 2019, and raised over £400,000 for Dementia Revolution. The top bidders were joined by Virgin Radio’s Kate Lawler & Vassos Alexander, Barbara Windsor’s husband Scott Mitchell, Eastenders’ Tanya Franks and Chris’ personal assistant known as the Frothy Coffee Man.

For almost 100 years, through thick and thin, the Royal British Legion has been there to offer financial and moral support to military families - thanks to the public’s generosity. But because Covid prevented vulnerable sellers from taking part, it looked likely that the 2020 Poppy Appeal would fall flat. 

The Sun took on the cause, campaigning for six weeks to raise awareness of the Legion’s plight and persuading thousands of readers to donate online.

The Sun’s editor, Victoria Newton, committed five front pages to the campaign and added a poppy to the front page logo. The campaign was endorsed by celebrities including David Beckham, Holly Willoughby, James Blunt and Anthony Joshua. This ensured our message was circulated far and wide on social media. In six weeks, Sun readers donated £50,000 through their Sun Savers to the poppy appeal. And The Royal British Legion believes The Sun is directly responsible for more than £10m in public donations.

Chris Evans’ mega fundraising event, Dine & Disco, raised a record-breaking £1.9m for The Elton John AIDS Foundation through a Virgin Radio UK phone auction.

Broadcast live on the show, Virgin Radio UK auctioned off 45 pairs of tickets to see the legendary Sir Elton perform live with Rick Astley in an intimate gig at the Chewton Glen Hotel on June 26 2021.

Sir Elton joined Chris on the show to unveil the auction amount and discuss what fans could look forward to.

In June 2019 The Sunday Times revealed how children on the deprived Broadwater Farm estate were dreading the holidays. Sunday Times readers responded by donating £340,000 in record time to give them a summer of a lifetime.