David Beckham – a voice for children
During a visit to a north London primary school in November last year, David met pupils aged 5 to 11 to talk about the issues that affect them most such [ . . . ]
Tag: charity
The Samaritans – Giving your time and empathy…at the end of the phone.
In today’s blog post, as part of the Charity series, I’m thinking about those people who work in a full-time job, or who are bringing up their families, and then [ . . . ]
Princess Diana – the real Queen of Hearts
Today’s post in the ‘Charity and the people behind them’ series is about a person I admired and still think about today. She’s often in my thoughts and as I [ . . . ]
Talking PANTS with your child or children in your care
I absolutely love this new awareness campaign from the NSPCC, a charity close to my heart and which, as a mother, always pulls at my heartstrings when I see their [ . . . ]
Charity and Octavia Hill’s Legacy
This post links to the series ‘Charity and the people behind them’ but also with my previous post on homelessness. A colleague of mine mentioned Octavia Trust when I was [ . . . ]
Dame Alice Owen – More than an educator
As the Director and Owner of Elisa’s Tutorial School I am tutoring children to achieve their potential and gain their place at some of London’s top independent, private and grammar [ . . . ]
Mark Zuckerberg – giving to charity
Mark Zuckerberg is most famous as the Facebook founder and billionaire CEO. He and his wife, have promised to give away 99 percent of their Facebook shares to help charity via their [ . . . ]
Bill Gates…this is God’s work
Welcome back to my ‘Charity and the people behind them’ series. A few years ago, at the age of 57 Bill Gates admitted he was a restless man and wanted [ . . . ]
Could you be a Mother Teresa?
Continuing the charity blog post series “Charity and the people behind them” I’m thinking about Mother Teresa today. In 1946 Teresa travelled to Darjeeling for a retreat. It was on that [ . . . ]
Charity and food donation boxes
Welcome back to another post in the blog series “Charity and the people behind them”. This week I’m thinking about how some people are so poverty-stricken in our cities that [ . . . ]