Annual poetry fundraising challenge returns for 2014
Howard Lake | 25 September 2014 | News
The Poetry Challenge will be held on 5 October this year at the October Gallery in London’s Bloomsbury. The annual event encourages people to learn a poem by heart and recite it to an audience, raising money for charity.
The event organisers hope that it will inspire others to run their own Poetry Challenge to raise funds for their favourite charities.
The Poetry Challenge was set up in 1995 by author, activist and social inventor Nicholas Albery. He loved poetry and was the author of the best-selling Poem for the Day book.
He established the Poetry Challenge as a means to raise funds for his favourite charities and to help others do the same.
The royalties from the Poem for the Day book are donated to the Natural Death Centre, a charity which he founded with his wife Josefine Speyer.
The Poetry Challenge continues to be held on the first Sunday of every October, despite Albery’s death in a car accident in 2001. His widow now runs it with Cornelia Broesskamp and Claudia Bolton to support their charities too.
Entrance fee is by donation. Each participant has to download a sponsorship form and collect pledges in advance of the event.
Last year’s event raised over £10,000.
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