Niaz Alam BBC is known to have refused an appeal broadcast request from the DEC. The 2009 DEC Gaza appeal screened only by Channel 4 and ITV raised £8.3m. In August 2014, the BBC broadcast a new DEC aid appeal for people in Gaza, screened without similar controversy, which is reported to have raised £16m over two years. Niaz Alam Niaz Alam is a responsible investment consultant and journalist. He served as a director on the Board of the London Pensions Fund Authority from 2001 to 2010 having been appointed as an adviser on Responsible Investment and Human Rights issues. Since 2013,
Radio 4 Appeal the appeals raised £1,433,154.02 for 52 charities. Just over half of this, £725,000, was for the annual Christmas appeal, broadcast on 2 Dec 2007. Amounts raised for other charities in that year ranged from £1,366.00 (Jenni Murray appealing for BEAT (Eating Disorders Association) on 24 Feb 2008) to £53,988.00 (Krishnan Guru-Murthy appealing for Homeless International on 3 March 2007, one week later). An earlier programme based on the same principle was "The Week's Good Cause", which ran from 1926 (from 1939 in the BBC Home Service) until controller James Boyle's major reforms to Radio 4 in 1998. Radio 4 Appeal