The Livery Newsletter and Gazette Issue 27 Summer 2017 | Page 9

Every little helps…
The lunch was deliciously catered by Mark Grove
The tag line from Tesco’s marketing campaign also applies to charity funding. There are many good causes
and his team at Cook & Butler and we cracked
out there seeking support from the public and the approaches adopted by charities to get a share of the
along at a goodly pace. Our guests were admirably
public’s goodwill vary from sophisticated television adverts to “chugging” on the high street.
introduced by Liveryman Fran Morrison and our
Principal Guest, Tim Wonnacott gave a generous and
In 2015, two-thirds of the UK population had
very
to which
I responded initially
The humorous
top 10 UK reply
charities
by charitable
donated money or sponsored someone. Overall
by spending
drenching
poor Tim in a glass of water - he was
are:
giving was estimated by the Charities Aid
very kind about it (sorry Tim!). I was very pleased
Foundation (CAF) to be £9.6 billion, down slightly
£,000
to show off the newly found Livery Grant of
Arms
on the prior year but the decline was well within
and Letters Patent which have been missing for many
statistical error. Although giving cash is the most
1 - our
Wellcome
Trust
992,310
years
Clerk tenaciously
sought them out,
and
popular way of supporting charities, volunteering
the
Immediate
Past Master, Chris Allen,
and his
2 new The
British Council
981,762
and giving goods are also important channels of
IPM, Mark Gower-Smith have funded a beautiful re-
giving. A staggering £185 million was raised in 2015
presentation
they are now resplendent 753,118
in frames
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Save and
the Children
through bake sales alone. The London Marathon has
carved with
tobacco leaves (or close to); Sandra also
International
raised over £800 million since its inception, 35 years
located a huge banner not seen since 1985 and Angus
ago, and is generating more th an £50 million a year.
4
Nuffield
Menzies,
Clerk to Health
the Master Mariners and 750,100
never shy
Red Nose Day raised £73 million earlier this year and
of a challenge saw to it that it was displayed on the
Children in Need raised £46 million last year. Both
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The Arts Council of England
601,174
Quarterdeck.
events underline the power of television in appealing
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Cardiff
University
485,616
to the nation’s conscience.
Whilst
all
this was
going on, apparently biblical-
style downpours were being had all over London
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The to National
Trust we ended our lunch
471,565
- oblivious
all that drama
The top 10 UK charities by income are:
and trooped back to the quarterdeck where Coffee,
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Cancer Research UK
441,546
Cigars, and Cognac awaited us (I did mention that
£,000
our
dining
on the High C’s..)
and
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The enjoyed
Charities
Aid Foundation
431,551
which
seemed
to
hit
the
mark
–
Liveryman
Jemma
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The British Council
979,639
Freeman
had kindly
provided
cigars
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United
Church
Schools the torpedo 349,481
2
Lloyds Register Foundation
901,037
and had Foundation
had them placed in souvenir tubes with our
Crest emblazoned on it. Several of us also sported
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Save the Children
785,579
a limited
Livery
Smoking
hat - originally
The
top 10 edition
charities
are not
necessarily
represented
International
conceived
as
a
sort
of
shooting
hat,
it
serves
its
by the public’s responses when they polled about
purpose
so well giving.
as a “team” hat, that of the twenty
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Nuffield Health
767,600
their
charitable
ordered, but one remained by the close of the day!
Thank you to the Master Mariners for allowing us the
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The Arts Council of England
732,814
use of the venue, to Tim for being a perfect Principal
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Cancer Research UK
635,145
Guest, and for everyone attending and giving my
year such a special start.
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The National Trust
522,165
8 Cardiff University 511,763
9 The Charities Aid Foundation 503,327
10 Oxfam 414,700
The Master
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