Philanthropist of the month – Sir Steve Redgrave MBE CBE
Five times Olympian gold medallist Sir Steve Redgrave is one of the greatest athletes to grace sport. Redgrave has recently set a new milestone in charitable fundraising earning the title of the London Marathon’s top celebrity fundraiser. Redgrave raised well over £1.7m for the Steve Redgrave Trust from his participation in the 2006 Flora London [...]
Philanthropist of the month – Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE
Born on 7 March 1944, Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE has lived an eventful life. Son of a commanding officer in the Royal Scots Greys and with an ancestor who served as commander of the Norman army at Hastings, former soldier Fiennes has demonstrated the same traits of courage, humility and resilience as his forebears throughout [...]
Philanthropist of the month – Lloyd Dorfman
Lloyd Dorfman is persistent, loyal, a world-renowned entrepreneur and a multi-millionaire. He is also a philanthropist with which to be reckoned. Chairman of the world’s largest non-bank foreign exchange business Travelex Group, he was appointed CBE for services to business and charity at the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2008. He recently gave the National Theatre [...]
Philanthropist of the month – JK Rowling
She needs no introduction. JK Rowling, who famously conjured up the world of Harry Potter, is not only one of the world’s leading authors with one heck of an imagination, she also happens to be one of the world’s most generous philanthropists. Rowling has been described as a ‘hyper-active’ philanthropist, giving up her time, money [...]
Philanthropist of the month – Charles Saatchi
At the beginning of July Charles Saatchi announced that he would on his retirement donate his gallery in London, no less than 200 works of art worth in excess of £25 million, as a gift to the nation. The gallery, Saatchi has told us, will no longer be known as The Saatchi Gallery but re-named [...]
Philanthropist of the month – a more charitable outlook on the World Cup
This month the eyes of the world lie upon the very southern tip of Africa , upon a country whose history is fraught with woe and where millions of its people contend with the degradation of poverty and ill-health on a scale that defies belief. As the World Cup kicks off millions of eyes will [...]
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