Doddy spreads happiness with £3m to charity

COMEDIAN Ken Dodd has donated £3million to charity since he died in 2018, aged 90.

- BY MARK JEFFERIES and ANDY LINES

The Ken Dodd Charitable Foundation has handed out almost £500,000 every year since 2019.

And the charity in his name plans to keep on giving the money away after he left behind millions more.

In a new BBC documentary, his widow Lady Anne Dodd, 82, reveals she is carrying on Ken's legacy to donate to charity and also plans to establish a museum in his honour.

She said: "He had set up this foundation but not done much, particularly as he was busy doing shows and everything.

"But I was in a position where I could. Of course it is something to put your energies into.

"People approach you and I am busy as I have ever been. I am getting older but I have got people to help."

She added: "I have just donated money to the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, where Ken was treated. They used the money to buy a machine which works out if a patient with a heart condition should have chemotherapy.

"They said the machine was so good they would like another so I rang them back and bought them one.

"It is so easy to give money away and I have met so many wonderful people doing it.

"Ken worked hard for it. We had nice holidays but we had an everyday life.