The DanRadcliffe.com 15th Birthday Project for Dan

ACED

Since early this year (2004), thousands of DR.com readers from all over the world have been contributing material to a series of fan projects and DR.com webmaster Jenna has been very busy turning it all into Dan's birthday present: ACED Magazine. The very first printed copy of the magazine was sent to Dan just in time for his 15th birthday on July 23rd, 2004.

Jenna describes ACED thusly: "ACED Magazine is a new entertainment and lifestyle publication aimed primarily at readers in their teens and twenties but with appeal for people of all ages. This semi-annual magazine will feature celebrity and band interviews, reviews of albums, concerts, books, and movies and will have many other special features with direct participation from the readers and visitors from both ACED and DanRadcliffe.com.

The main inspiration for this magazine is Dan. Even the title of the magazine, "ACED", was entirely inspired by the card trick he did for me when I last visited him on the HP set! We decided to write about some of the things we knew he liked, because we knew a lot of his fans, our potential readers, would be interested in reading about them too, and we also wanted to print things that we thought would be of interest to him. Who better to write for the “typical teenager” than teenagers?"

Thank you very much to all those fans who contributed to the fan projects and helped make this magazine possible! We'll be opening up more fan projects later this year for the next issue - look out for announcements here at DanRadcliffe.com. You can view an online copy of the current issue of the magazine here:

ACED Magazine website.

Demelza House Fundraiser

Dan fans from all across the Internet also made contributions to Dan's favorite charity, Demelza House Children's Hospice in Kent, England, instead of sending him birthday presents. Donations are still being counted but the latest estimate is that over £1610.57 has been raised so far, which is great news! Thanks again to everyone who so generously donated to this very worthy cause.

What did DAN Have To Say About All Of This?

A few days after his birthday, we were thrilled to receive a very special "thank you" from Dan for his present. He sent over this message to the readers of DanRadcliffe.com ::

Dear Jenna

Well, you've done it again - left me speechless with ACED. It is a fantastic magazine and I was completely knocked out by it and the time and effort you have put into it. I love all the reviews and the photos are excellent. By happy coincidence I had just bought the Modest Mouse album which I think is fantastic! I was also stunned to see the fan demographic and as always find it a little difficult to take in the spread of fans around the world when I am working at Leavesden. ACED is a beautifully constructed and imaginative magazine and everyone I have shown it to loves it. It made my 15th birthday very special and I can't wait for the next issue at Christmas. Thank you.

Thank you also, to everyone who contributed to Demelza House. This place is SO important to me and everyone who contributed makes a real difference to the lives of the children and their families who stay there. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

My birthday was spent on set with my friends. This is the third birthday I have had at Leavesden and they are always fun filled days. A friend on set gave me a large water pistol and as it was a sunny day - chaos reigned at lunch time as I was responsible for soaking the stunt department and then ran for my life as you really don't want to mess with them - I am sure they will get their own back.

Once again Jenna, thank you - you are amazing!

All my love

DAN