# ARK fundraising gala raises £15.6 million

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/06/09/ark-fundraising-gala-raises-156-million/
- Published: 2009-06-09T09:20:46+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The eighth annual fundraising gala for children’s charity ARK (Absolute Return for
Kids) last week raised £15.6 million from 800 guests in one night for new programmes
in health, child welfare and education.

 

Founded in 2002 by Arpad Busson and senior figures in the alternative investment
industry, the charity raises multi-million pound sums at each of its dinners. Its
first dinner in 2002 raised £2 million but by 2007 the dinner raised £26 million
and £25.5 million in 2008.

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The charity has so far raised more than £115 million.

 

ARK aims to apply “the same principles and disciplines to managing the charity as
it would to running a business, focusing on the transformation of children’s lives
through rigorous research, monitoring and evaluation”.

 

www.arkonline.org

 

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