'Hope and courage in the face of difficulty': The Telegraph Christmas Charity Appeal
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The Telegraph
4.1 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Every year at Christmas, the Telegraph launches its charity appeal to raise money for four worthy causes.
In 2025, we’ve been supporting Prostate Cancer Research, the Motor Neurone Disease Association, Canine Partners - which provides assistance dogs to people with disabilities - and The Not Forgotten, which offers support and community to Armed Forces veterans.
There’s still time to donate and to support these good causes, so in this Christmas Day bonus episode of The Daily T, you can hear directly from a few of the people the Telegraph appeal is helping.
Merry Christmas!
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:19.0 | Tim, as you know, the Telegraph every year has a Christmas charity appeal to raise money for four worthy causes. |
| 0:26.3 | And in 2025, we're supporting prostate cancer research, the Motor Neurone Disease Association, |
| 0:33.4 | canine partners that provide support dogs for people with disabilities and the Not Forgotten, |
| 0:39.5 | which is a charity that supports army veterans. |
| 0:42.6 | The newspaper always has a Christmas charity phone in. |
| 0:46.4 | We both took part earlier on in December. |
| 0:48.6 | We're wearing silly headgick. |
| 0:50.0 | I wore a Santa's hat because I think it's the classiest thing you can wear. |
| 0:53.6 | And this year we raised a record 125,000 pounds. |
| 0:59.9 | But there's still plenty of time to donate. |
| 1:02.1 | And we want everyone to do that. |
| 1:04.0 | And to encourage them, we'd like to introduce you to some of the people involved with |
| 1:08.8 | and affected by these very good causes. |
| 1:11.6 | It's worth pointing out that all the people you're going to hear from Next all spoke at our Carol concert, |
| 1:17.2 | which again is another part of the Telegraph Christmas staple. |
| 1:20.9 | And they include Johnny Ball. |
| 1:24.5 | You remember Johnny Ball from our childhood, right? |
| 1:26.9 | Father of Zoe, but more importantly, a sort of TV scientist in a way that explained how things worked and how things were made back in the 1980s. |
| 1:38.8 | Hello, I'm Johnny Ball. |
| 1:40.5 | It was so thrilling for me to be involved in the Telegraph Carol concert at St Brides, |
| 1:47.8 | because it's just a lovely event to attend, and I was representing prostate cancer research, |
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