These Musicians Are Giving Back In Surprising Ways

One Direction = #Action1D

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The London-based boy band One Direction takes charity work quite seriously. In 2015 the group launched a campaign called #Action1D, intended to bring awareness to various charities around the world.

1D also works with the Children in Need foundation and helped raise 26 million pounds during a 2011 telethon. In 2013 they released a single called “One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)” which supported the charity Comic Relief. Other groups One Direction has worked for are Stand up to Cancer, Alzheimer’s Association, Mines Advisory Group, and Greenpeace.