# Pinter poetry evening raises nearly £7,000 for Lord Mayor's Appeal

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/03/17/pinter-poetry-evening-raises-nearly-7000-lord-mayor039s-appeal/
- Published: 2007-03-17T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

An evening of readings by poet and playwright Harold Pinter, joined by Grey Gowrie
and BH Fraser, has raised almost £7,000 for charity.
The evening at the Mansion 
House in the City of London on 1 March, which was organised as part of the Lord 
Mayors Appeal, was attended by over 300 guests and was the first in a series of 
events to raise money for the appeal’s four beneficiary charities – international
development charity VSO, Mansion House Scholarship Scheme, The Guild of Educators,
and King Edward’s School Witley.

Pinter read a collection of his poems from throughout the years ending the evening
with a touching love sonnet to his wife Lady Antonia Fraser.

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