# Amnesty receives £1 million from the Roddicks

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/08/02/amnesty-receives-1-million-roddicks/
- Published: 2004-08-02T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has received a donation of £1 million from Dame
Anita Roddick and Gordon Roddick towards the organisation’s new Human Rights Action
Centre.**

The donation is the latest contribution to AIUK’s capital appeal to fund its new
Human Rights Action Centre. Anita and Gordon Roddick will donate £500,000 worth 
of shares to Amnesty International UK this year, and match this with a similar donation
next year making a total of £1m donated.

[Amnesty](https://fundraising.co.uk/tag/amnesty-international/) purchased the premises
at New Inn Yard, London EC2 for £4.6 million in November 2002 following a search
lasting more than five years. The human rights organisation plans to move from its
two existing office premises in Islington to the new building in late 2004.

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Dame Anita Roddick said:

> “I passionately believe that successful businesspeople should contribute to organisations
> that are helping make the world a better, safer, more civilised place. Not only
> because it’s the right thing to do, but because only the truly myopic don’t recognise
> that a more just world is better for both the soul and the bottom line.”
>   

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