Our upcoming Funding Day will be on Saturday, 20th September at RIBA, Royal Institute of British Architects, 66, Portland Place, London W1B 1AD. The event is being sponsored by Triodos. If you would like to register please click here to complete a response slip. We also kindly request that you pay your registration fee (£10 member and £20 non-member - online or by post) before the event.

At the last Funding Evening on the 24th June hosted by Coutts & Co, a total of £114,000 was raised for 6 projects - the highest amount raised to date. The atmosphere was charged, the room packed with individuals wanting to knowing more about the charities that inspired the following six well-known people: Nick Hornby, Jonathan Pryce, Katharine Hamnett, Jon Snow, Amanda Mealing and Richard Stilgoe who each came to present a project that they are personally involved in.

"Last night was an absolutely amazing event for us at New Horizon...uplifting and beyond the very unexpected and hugely generous financial boost to our work, a massive morale boost. The staff, the young people and the old codgers like me are completely overwhelmed by the generosity of your members. I don’t know how to begin to thank you all. For a hack like me, it’s a wonderful STORY too. So I guess all I can do at this stage is to thank you all, to hope you will come and see us at work, and see in due course how your generosity is working too." Jon Snow

The 6 projects that presented on the evening were:

Nick Hornby - English novelist and essayist, presents TreeHouse. www.treehouse.org.uk
TreeHouse exists to transform the lives of children and young people with autism, and the lives of their families, through education.Alongside an innovative exemplar school for children with severe autism,TreeHouse offers teacher training as well as constructive support to teachers around the UK.

Jonathan Pryce - Award-winningWelsh stage and film actor/singer, presents
Friends United Network (FUN). www.friendsunitednetwork.org.uk
FUN supports children, aged from 5-16 on referral, from extremely disadvantaged single parent families in the Boroughs of Islington and Camden. It provides long-term volunteer adult befrienders for the children.

Katharine Hamnett - English fashion designer, presents Environmental Justice
Foundation (EJF) www.ejfoundation.org
EJF was established as a registered UK charity in 2001 to find innovative and effective ways to resolve environmental abuses and associated human rights concerns, specifically targeting poor communities and countries in the global south.

Jon Snow - British television newscaster, presents New Horizon Youth Centre
www.nhyouthcentre.org.uk
This is a day centre working to ensure that every vulnerable young person finds a home and the necessary tools to progress in their lives. Founded in 1968 by the
late Lord Longford, the centre is based between Euston and St Pancras stations. It is open seven days a week and works with 45-55 young people each day.

Amanda Mealing - Well-known television actress, presents S.A.F.E. www.sponsoredarts.org
S.A.F.E. is a British charity that uses high-quality professional theatre, combined with community activities and education, to deliver life-saving information about HIV
and AIDS in the most under-served areas in Kenya. It is a mobile theatre organisation, taking performance, education and vital HIV information to the neglected slums of
Nairobi.

Richard Stilgoe - Songwriter, lyricist and musician, is Chairman and Founder of The Orpheus Centre www.orpheus.org.uk
This is a unique performing arts centre based in Surrey, in the former family home of Richard Stilgoe.The young people who come to study here are aged between 19 and
25 and have a mild or moderate physical impairment or learning disability.

TFN's next funding event date are as follows:

• Saturday, September 20th 2008 - a Funding Day sponsored by Triodos
• Wednesday, December 3rd 2008 - a Xmas Party/Funding Evening inviting all members and givers. The event is being sponsored by Rathbone Greenbanks and hosted at their offices on Bond St.
• Thursday, January 29th 2009 - a Funding Evening hosted by Goldman Sachs

If you are interested in supporting social change projects, you are welcome to come along to one of our Funding Events without any obligation to commit funds to any of the projects that will be presented. There is no obligation to give and at any one event people have pledged from £100-£10,000

If you'd like to come along to any of these events please do get in touch.

Sarah Kuehne, Project Co-ordinator
The Funding Network,
F1, 23 Clanricarde Gardens
London W2 4JL
Email: info@thefundingnetwork.org.uk
Tel: 0207 243 0667