Charities
Charles Beare obituary
May 20, 2025Charles Beare, who has died aged 87, was an international stringed instrument expert and dealer, his name synonymous with an unrivalled knowledge of fine instruments and bows. His expertise was unmatched in the arcane world of violin authentication. Once seen, an instrument corner, an f-hole, or glimpse of a scroll would often be enough to […]
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Ruth Wyner obituary
February 2, 2025In 1998, at the peak of Ruth Wyner’s career as a manager of bold and innovative projects to help homeless people, a crowd of police officers clattered up the narrow stairs of the Wintercomfort day centre in Cambridge, squeezed into Ruth’s attic office and announced that they had arrested eight of her “clients” for dealing […]
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‘We can’t tackle drink-spiking alone’: Met teams up with London venues amid increasing reports
May 12, 2024The bank of video screens looks like something straight out of a spy movie. Inside a secure room, dozens of images show footage of staircases, doors, the bar, booths and the dancefloor. This is Tiger Tiger London, a popular nightclub in the capital’s West End, and the CCTV operators are scanning for suspicious behaviour. A floorplan […]
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Hope of end to actors’ charity row dashed after elections suspended
January 17, 2024Hopes of an immediate resolution to the bitter and long-running dispute at the top of a high-profile actors’ charity have been dashed after elections to form a new ruling council were dramatically suspended amid concerns over voting. The Actors’ Benevolent Fund (ABF) said on Wednesday evening that its annual general meeting had been adjourned after […]
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Camila Batmanghelidjh obituary
January 7, 2024For two decades Camila Batmanghelidjh, who has died after a long illness aged 61, was one of the most passionate and readily recognisable figures on the UK charity circuit. Kids Company, the charity she founded in 1996 to help distressed, abused and abandoned children and teenagers in south London, undoubtedly helped several thousand young people. […]
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‘I never thought I would get this far’: London man runs 365 marathons in 365 days
December 17, 2023Aaron Robinson passed something of a milestone on Sunday – 26 milestones, to be precise – as he and his border collies, River and Inca, completed their 365th marathon in 365 days. Every morning, for exactly a year, the charity worker has left his east London home to set out on his lonely marathons, all […]
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Pete Haine obituary
October 9, 2023My friend Pete Haine, who has died aged 67 of pancreatic cancer, was a lifelong Spurs fan who on retirement from a senior post in the civil service devoted his time to voluntary work for the club – as well as many charitable causes in Tottenham. His spell as secretary of the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ […]
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Coram charity accused of ‘throttling by stealth’ nursery it helped create
July 16, 2023The UK’s oldest children’s charity has been accused of “throttling by stealth” a renowned state-maintained nursery it helped create with a shared mission to improve support for the early years. The Thomas Coram nursery school, a pioneering early years centre in Camden, north London, has said it is facing possible closure after its landlord announced […]
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Young Albanian men ‘viciously exploited’ after arriving in UK
March 5, 2023Staff at an Albanian charity in east London recently began helping a 16-year boy who was smuggled by boat into the UK last year, placed in a Home Office hotel on arrival, and then abducted by traffickers to work in a cannabis farm in Leeds. The child is one of the 12,561 Albanian nationals who […]
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Hackney domestic violence charity faces battle to stay in premises
July 11, 2020London’s only specialist domestic violence service for women of African and Caribbean heritage is facing eviction from its premises, and claims it has had to turn away survivors amid a dispute with the local authority. Hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters gathered outside Hackney town hall on Friday amid fears Sistah Space will be forced […]
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