Results tagged “charity”

Get your skates on if you want to join England cricket legend Sir Ian Botham in Canary Wharf.

The former all-rounder turned charity fundraiser is holding a special evening at Canary Wharf Ice Rink on January 5 in support of Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research.

Give someone deserving a special present this Christmas without stepping foot on the high street.

Crisis, the national charity for single homeless people urgently needs skilled volunteers to give the gift of time to its 40th Christmas campaign.

She's rowed across two oceans and run through the Sahara but adventurer Elin Haf Davies has a shorter journey to look forward tomorrow.

Elin, who works for the European Medicines Agency in Canary Wharf, will be at Buckingham Palace to meet The Queen, as well as rubbing shoulders with explorers like Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

Coldplay will headline a charity evening of music and comedy at The O2 next month.

The multi-million selling band have teamed up with London-based charity Kids Company to organise the Under 1 Roof event at the arena on December 10. Also confirmed to appear are Tinie Tempah, Emeli Sandé, Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge.

Prince Harry earned the bragging rights in the Royal Household after breaking his brother's world record for the biggest foreign exchange transaction.

The Prince completed a trade for 18billion euros at BGC Partners in Canary Wharf, eclipsing the record the Duke of Cambridge set last year by a billion.

An intrepid band of Barclays bike riders have raised more than a quarter of a million pounds for charity after pedalling from Edinburgh to London.

The 30 Canary Wharf-based lawyers and 18 of their suppliers arrived in central London yesterday after completing the 450-mile ride in just five days - with one of their team making the journey on a Barclays hire bike.

Customers at Jamie's Italian will be doing their bit for charity if they eat their fish.

The popular restaurant chain, which has an outlet in Canary Wharf, will donate £1 from every order of sea bass made from this month to the Jamie Oliver Foundation, which the celebrity chef started to educate and engage people with good food.

One of Barclays most senior bankers has been named as an ambassador for east London HIV charity Positive East.

Antony Jenkins, Barclays' retail and business banking chief executive, will have a key role in promoting Barclays' staff involvement in the charity's activities and raising awareness of HIV in the workplace.

Paralysed former stuntman Eddie Kidd is heading up the Isle of Dogs as he continues his Virgin London Marathon effort.

Kidd, paralysed when a motorcycle stunt went wrong 15 years ago, has been making slow, if steady progress using a special walking frame, having started the race alongside 36,000 other competitors on April 17.

The windows around Canada Square were at risk when Wharfers got the chance to bat against England cricket legend Devon Malcolm.

The pace ace became a cult figure during his 40 match test career thanks to his ferocious if not always accurate bowling and his less than proficient batting technique.

Charlotte Hill is trying to ensure all young people have the best possible start in life.

Appointed in November as the CEO of Wharf-based charity UK Youth, as it prepares to celebrate its centenary, the 32-year-old is hoping her tender years mean she's still in touch with the age group her organisation aims to help.

These have been tough economic times but one Docklands-based organisation has been using its expertise to keep the cogs of co-operation turning between business and the community.

The East London Business Alliance (Elba) emerged in the late 1980s to help east London residents into jobs in the new Docklands development.

Come with a past, leave with a future, is the motto at Ian Mikardo High School in Tower Hamlets.
The boys at this special school were not expected to succeed and their own aspirations were low - all of the 22 students, aged 11-16, have been excluded from other schools. But they are encouraged to express themselves through art and their creations are to be auctioned for charity.

Every year in the UK around 80,000 babies are born premature or sick and in need of specialist hospital care.

Bliss support groups provide invaluable services and support to parents and families and help ensure that vulnerable babies not only survive but go on to have the best possible quality of life.

Two amateur sailors are taking part in one of Britain's toughest yacht races to raise funds for the Richard House Children's Hospice.

Richard Lett and Sharon McMichael set sail from Plymouth last week in the Round Britain and Ireland Yacht Race, and they will be the only charity boat competing in the elite event.

It's not every day a Formula One World Champion visits a motor show and doesn't take a car for a spin but that's what happened when Nigel Mansell visited the Canary Wharf Motorexpo.

The 1992 champion ignored the Ferraris and BMWs, preferring to promote his UK Youth Cycle Challenge, but he's still a petrolhead at heart.

Motor racing legend Nigel Mansell was in Canary Wharf this morning to cast his expert eye over the Motorexpo.

The 1992 Formula One World Champion was also launching his UK Youth Cycle Challenge, which will see him ride 1,200 miles around Britain to help the charity.

The sun shone as over 1,000 runners took to the streets around One Canada Square for the British Heart Foundation Canary Wharf Jog.

Last night's fun run was blessed with good weather, with 1,300 people turning out to enjoy themselves, although some found the going harder than others.

Missed out on the Marathon but still keen to get a bit of running around Canary Wharf in this year?

Well, help is at hand in the form of the Canary Wharf Jog, the annual fun-fest to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation.

Sunday sees thousands of runners hitting the streets when the Virgin London Marathon takes place.

Docklands takes centre stage as usual, with the bulk of the 26-mile 385 yard course winding round the area's roads. It's the 30th staging of the event so there's likely to be an extra special carnival atmosphere.