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Sir Elton John is the UK’s most generous celebrity ahead of JK Rowling and Lord Sugar – donating more than £3,000 to charities every hour, study reveals

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Sir Elton John is the UK’s most generous celebrity ahead of JK Rowling and Lord Sugar – donating more than £3,000 to charities every hour, study reveals

Sir Elton John is the UK’s most generous celebrity – donating more than £3,000 to charities every hour.

The Rocket Man singer, who has a £450million fortune, doles out £74,000 a day to charitable causes close to his heart – that’s £3,082 an hour, or £27 million a year.

Researchers at digital raffle platform Raffolux – which raises money for charities – found that Sir Elton only just nudged Harry Potter author JK Rowling (£3,060 an hour) into second place. 

The Harry Potter author, worth around £820 million, donates £3,060-per-hour, that’s £73,440 every single day, around £26.8m.

Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton (£1,255 an hour) was third.

Sir Elton John is the UK’s most generous celebrity – donating more than £3,000 to charities every hour

Harry Potter author JK Rowling, worth around £820m, donates £3,060-per-hour, that's £73,440 every single day, around £26.8m.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling, worth around £820m, donates £3,060-per-hour, that’s £73,440 every single day, around £26.8m.

Although the figures sound like a lot, the top donator to charity from the UK is Sir Chris Hohn, an investment banker with a fortune of around £8bn.

He donates a humungous £68,595 to charity every hour – that’s £1.6m-a-day, or just over £600m-a-year.

That’s 22 times more than generous Sir Elton, who donates to charities connected to HIV/AIDS, the arts, music, and sport.

A spokesman for Raffolux said this week: ‘Sir Elton John has been revealed as the most generous celebrity in the past year, donating just over £3,000-an-hour to charities.’

Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton (donating £1,255 an hour) was third

Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton (donating £1,255 an hour) was third

Top 5 most generous UK celebrities 

1. Sir Elton John – fortune of £450m – donates £3,082-per-hour (£74,000-a-day/£27m-a-year)

2. J.K. Rowling – fortune of £820m – donates £3,060-per-hour (£73,440-a-day/£26.8m-a-year)

3. Sir Lewis Hamilton – fortune of £300m – donates £1,255-per-hour (£30,120-a-day/£11m-a-year)

4. Lord Alan Sugar – fortune of £1.1bn – donates £966-per-hour (£23,184-a-day/£8.5m-a-year)

5. Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber – fortune of £820 – donates £548-per-hour (£13,152-a-day/£4.8m-a-year)

 

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