Call us on Sunday for a chance to speak to our cartoonist, Matt Credit: David Rose For more than a century, The Telegraph has run charity appeals at Christmas, inviting readers to get into the festive spirit by helping those in need. One of the first such fundraising campaigns, during the First World War, helped supply troops with Christmas puddings. Last year, readers dug deep to support three worthy causes that help vulnerable children, lonely older people and sufferers of leukaemia, raising just under £600,000, with an astonishing £101,000 donated on our annual phone-in day, when readers were able to call in to speak to Telegraph writers and editors and donate to our charities.