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Not really? Sort of? Maybe? I think Levine got the performers involved to volunteer, and he was taking his cue (rather tastelessly) from a similar effort a few years prior, which had gone towards helping, IIRC, starving children in the Third World. It's a pastiche of a non-Who-related "charity single". But Doctor Who is cast as the object of the "charity", rather than the medium via which money is raised for an unrelated charity.

It's not a charity work in the usual sense of "the profits go to a charity" as far as I know, just an attempt to peer-pressure the BBC higher-ups into bringing back Doctor Who.

tl;dr, it's (I think) not a "charity work" in the sense we usually care about on the Wiki — a project borrowing DW copyrights to raise money for, or promote, an independent charity.

(All that being said, as Doctor in Distress is not a story, and certainly not valid, I don't know quite how relevant this all is.)