18-03-2023, 01:28 PM
While £31.9 million is a respectable total, it's not exactly a good one either. In fact, reading Wikipedia for previous years' totals it appears to be the lowest amount raised since 1997, which saw £27 million. 1999 saw £35 million being raised and that's not accounting for inflation, either. The donations have also been dropping year on year since 2011, which saw a record £108 million being donated. Compared to last year's total of £42 million, over £10 million being lost in the space of a year alone is not something I would be boasting about and should instead raise serious questions about the continued relevance of the fundraiser. Yes I know there is a cost of living crisis, but even the 2009 total (which was in the height of a recession) was higher.