Jurek Owsiak and the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation appeal to the Australian Collection Centres to utilize their Grand Finale fundraising resources to support the efforts to help victims of bushfires in Australia.

30 major Polish NGOs have issued a joint statement on the proposed changes to the laws regulating public charitable collections in Poland. The changes were put forward by the Ministry of Interior and Administration and might be used to prevent Grand Finale charitable collection.

Jurek Owsiak, the Chairman of the Board of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation addresses the paediatric hospital directors in a plea to improve the conditions in which parents stay at the hospitals when they accompany their children.