Save the Children raise £1m at an event
Howard Lake | 19 January 2001 | News
Over £1 million was raised for Save the Children at the 6th IFR Awards Gala Dinner on 11 January, a record-breaking amount raised at a single event for the international children’s charity.
Over £1 million was raised for Save the Children at the 6th IFR Awards Gala Dinner on 11 January, a record-breaking amount raised at a single event for the international children’s charity.
In total £1,068,162 was raised, with donations being made using an ‘interactive charity tombstone’. Contributing banks bid for places on the tombstone, and Citibank/Salomon Smith Barney won the Bookrunner position with a contribution of £260,000.
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Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, President of Save the Children, attended the dinner and presented the Bank of the Year Award to Sir Win Bischoff of Citibank/Salomon Smith Barney.
The sell-out Dinner, held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, and attended by over 1300 senior investment bankers, was organised by International Financing Review, the global capital markets publication published by Thomson Financial.
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
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