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who has raised the most for comic relief

The record for the most money raised for Comic Relief in a single Red Nose Day/Comic Relief campaign is held by the 2011 appeal, which raised about £108 million in total for that year’s Comic Relief activities.

Quick Scoop

  • In 2011 , Comic Relief raised £108,436,277 , the highest total listed for any Comic Relief year.
  • Earlier and later years have raised impressive amounts, but none in the official figures surpass the 2011 total. For example, 2009 raised about £82.3m, 2013 about £100.3m, and 2015 about £99.4m.
  • These amounts are for the charity’s yearly Comic Relief/Red Nose Day fundraising , not an individual person.

Has any individual raised the most?

Public data and official tables focus on annual totals and not on ranking individual fundraisers or celebrities by lifetime totals.

  • Many celebrities (like One Direction in 2013, or presenters such as Sir Lenny Henry) have fronted major campaigns and helped raise large sums, but Comic Relief does not publish a clear “all‑time top individual fundraiser” leaderboard. References usually credit the whole event total rather than a single person.
  • Because of that, it is not possible to reliably name one person who has “raised the most for Comic Relief” across all years from publicly available figures.

Context and recent totals

  • Recent Red Nose Day/Comic Relief broadcasts still raise tens of millions of pounds: for example, around £40–41 million in 2024, and a little over £34 million in 2025.
  • Overall, Comic Relief has raised hundreds of millions of pounds since its inception, with 2011 standing out as the single biggest year on record in the available fundraising table.

In short: the year 2011 holds the “most raised” record for Comic Relief as a campaign, but there is no trustworthy public data to crown a single individual as having raised the most.

TL;DR:

  • Most raised in one Comic Relief year: £108.4m in 2011.
  • No official, public ranking of which person has raised the most overall for Comic Relief.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.