2 d. ago Omaze winner handed the keys to wild prize by Pope Francis after 'crazy' encounter

The Czech man was handed the keys to a Lamborghini by the late pontiff as part of a charity project where the funds raised went to people to combat poverty in poorer countries

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3 d. ago Coatbridge Slimming World consultant and groups' members raise funds for charity Cancer Research UK

The money was collected by donating clothes, shoes and accessories that no longer fit to the charity's shops as part of the Big Slimming World Clothes Throw.

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1 week ago Michael Schumacher signs F1 race helmet with aid of his wife Corinna

The helmet, signed by every living world champion, will raise funds for Sir Jackie Stewart’s Race Against Dementia charity

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1 week ago Michael Schumacher's 'wonderful' moment as he signs helmet for charity auction

Seven-time F1 world champion Michael Schumacher has signed a helmet which is being sold by Sir Jackie Stewart to help raise funds for his Race Against Dementia charity

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2 w. ago Scots leukaemia survivor to run London Marathon after being inspired to take on feat from hospital bed

Stirling man Luke Harvey will head to London later this month where he will tackle the city's iconic marathon to raise vital funds towards a leukaemia charity.

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3 w. ago ‘They didn’t call us for Live Aid’: the stars behind Black Britain’s forgotten charity record

In 1985, a star-studded lineup of Black UK musicians, including Aswad, Dennis Brown and Janet Kay, recorded a charity single to raise funds for famine-stricken Ethiopia. Why are their efforts so little known?The Ethiopian famine of the early 1980s was one of the defining news stories of the decade, an exposure of the stark divide between developed and developing nations, still referred to at the time as the Third World. It is a received wisdom that the general public in Britain learned about the crisis when shocking images of emaciated men, women and children were shown on BBC news reports. This is not entirely true. In fact, plenty of Rastafarians were already aware of the situation.The east African country was their spiritual home – many in the movement viewed its former emperor Haile Selassie as their messiah – and a place free from the iniquities of the west. “A lot of Rastafarians went to Ethiopia [before they] came to London,” says the musician and cam...

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3 w. ago Inside toxic feud tearing apart Sentebale: Why Harry clashed with charity chief and concerns over 'colonial feel' revealed

Amid the upper-crust glamour of Florida's Grand Champions Polo Club, there were signs of tension at a match held last April to raise funds for Prince Harry's Sentebale charity.

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