{"id":364366,"date":"2025-12-23T19:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364366\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T19:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:26:11","slug":"bauers-mission-christmas-raises-16-9-million-for-children-radiotoday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364366\/","title":{"rendered":"Bauer\u2019s Mission Christmas raises \u00a316.9 million for children \u2013 RadioToday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a itemprop=\"url\" class=\"ahszp-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayl.ink\/aiirjune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ahszp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RTUKPackageDeal2.webp.webp\" alt=\"Aiir June 1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mission Christmas has raised \u00a316.9 million this year, helping nearly 319,000 children across the UK receive gifts at Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/todayl.ink\/WiseBuddah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/RadioToday-Small-Image-150x150-1.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The total, announced today by Bauer\u2019s charity Cash for Kids, means 318,767 children were supported through this year\u2019s appeal, marking a ten percent increase on last year\u2019s final figure and reflecting the scale of need faced by families.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, which runs annually with the support of radio stations from across Bauer Media, faced record demand this year, with more applications received than ever before. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the pressure, donations of money, gifts and volunteer time continued throughout December at Mission Christmas headquarters nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was shared on air by breakfast presenters across several Bauer stations, including Absolute Radio, Greatest Hits Radio, Hits Radio, KISS and Magic Radio.<\/p>\n<p>Cash for Kids managing director Sally Aitchison said the response showed strong community spirit, adding: \u201cIt has been a tough year, but supporters really went the extra mile to donate, drop off gifts or volunteer, helping hundreds of thousands of children wake up to a present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A range of broadcasters and well-known supporters helped raise awareness, including Cash for Kids ambassadors Ant &amp; Dec and tennis player Andy Murray, who supported fundraising activity with partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mission Christmas has raised \u00a316.9 million this year, helping nearly 319,000 children across the UK receive gifts at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-364366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}