Elton and JK Rowling have emerged as the most generous celebrities in The Sunday Times Giving List, with the wealthy this year making a record number of charitable donations each worth more than £1m.

Almost a fifth (178) of the 1,000 people in The Sunday Times Rich List, to be published on April 17, 2016, have donated at least £1m to charity in the past year. In total, the wealthy have given away £2.66bn in the past 12 months Elton gave £26.8m in the past year, mostly to his Aids foundations in Britain and America.

Rowling was second among the celebrity donors with £10.3m generated and donated by her two charities in the past year — the Lumos Foundation, which aims to end the institutionalising of children by 2050, and the Volant Charitable Trust, which focuses on research into multiple sclerosis, which claimed her mother’s life.

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