On Thursday 6^th December 2012 the Evelina Children’s Hospital held a Gala dinner at the Old Billingsgate.  Residential Land are very proud to support this charity and the evening was a huge success raising in excess of £600,000 for vital new equipment .

The original hospital was founded in 1869 by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in memory of his wife who, along with their baby died during childbirth. In 1948 the hospital became the responsibility of Guy’s hospital due to the formation of the NHS.

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From November 5 to 12, the Barclays ATP World Tennis Tour was staged at The O2 arena in London for a fourth straight year.

Throughout that week Residential Land donated tickets from our corporate box to tennis fans keen to watch the excitement – in exchange for a charitable donation to the KIND children’s charity.

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Residential Land has been supporting the Savitri Waney Charitable Trust for a number of years. The intimately run family trust supports worthy projects across the world, with a focus on curable blindness, mother and child healthcare and water resource development in rural India and Nigeria.

In December we were delighted to receive a personal letter from the trust with details of how our donations were directly making a difference to patients at the Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital in Bihar. The hospital has a target of eradicating curable blindness in Bihar by the year 2020. In the last year the hospital has conducted 55,362 cataract surgeries, of which 41,388 were delivered completely free of charge to the poor. The aim is to increase these numbers each year until the hospital has reached a surgical output of 100,000 surgeries by 2015.

Patients waiting to be examined along the corridors of the Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital, Bihar, India.

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On 24th November Make-A-Wish Foundaton held their annual UK Winter Ball at The Dorchester on London’s Park Lane which Residential Land was very proud to attend and support.

This year’s ball raised £495,000 with Residential Land granting wishes of two children, Brody, aged four who has MECP2 Duplication Syndrome, a rare neurodevelopmental condition which means he has limited communication skills and mobility.

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Residential Land were pleased to be invited back to the Royal Berkshire Shooting School by the Peter Jones Foundation to take part in the sixth annual Enterprise Shoot Challenge held on Wednesday 4th July 2012.

The event raises money for the Peter Jones Foundation which was set-up in 2005 to provide support to disadvantaged youngsters with training and education in the realm of enterprise.

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Residential Land recently supported the Heather Kerzner and Marie Curie Cancer Care fundraising dinner at Claridges.

The evening was an incredible success, raising over £620,000 for Marie Curie’s services. A number of high-profile celebrities and business leaders were there to support the event including The Duchess of York, Yasmin Le Bon, David Bailey and Kate Moss.

Sarah Duchess of York, Princess Beatrice and Heather Kerzner

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Residential Land is proud to support the Big Egg Hunt, a record-breaking egg hunt across Central London.

Over 200 uniquely crafted eggs, created by leading artists, designers, architects and jewellers were hidden across the capital. The egg hunt lasted six weeks with a staggering 12,773 people joining in the fun and breaking the Guinness World Records attempts for the most participants in an Egg Hunt. The winner is now the proud owner of the Diamond Jubilee egg worth £100,000.

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In February 2012, Residential Land was invited to attend The Black and White party, an annual dinner with money raised from ticket sales and a charity auction.

Lots had been generously donated from various sources, with 3-cellar worthy wines and a two night stay at the award winning and unique Tree House suites at Chewton Glen being amongst the lots. Residential Land, jointly with Dragon’s Den James Caan, successfully bid on Lot 16 “Challenge London’s most famous wiff waff artist at his own game”, a dinner hosted by Boris Johnson at London’s most unique venue – the venerable salmon smoker ‘Forman’s Fish Island’. Forman’s smokehouse is situated on the banks of the River Lea on Fish Island with unrivalled views of the Olympic Stadium. During the evening, Residential Land founder Bruce Ritchie, James Caan and Boris Johnson will do battle in a charity game of celebrity “wiff-waff” – makeshift table tennis.

Residential Land pledged in excess of £15,000 at this year’s charity dinner with funds going to Boris’s Mayoral Campaign.

On 5^th March Residential Land attended the “Who’s Cooking Dinner” charity auction at the Four Seasons Hotel at Park Lane in aid of Leuka, a charity raising money to create a better future for patients with leukaemia. “Who’s Cooking Dinner” was founded in 1999 by Peter Gordon and Chris Corbin and raises money for treatment and research, specifically for the specialist leukaemia centre at Hammersmith Hospital, one of the world’s leading units for haematology.

On the evening, twenty top London chefs including Rainer Becker of Zuma, Tim Hughes of Scotts, Mark Edwards of Nobu and Tong Chee Hwee of Hakkasan came together to cook dinner for 200 diners. There were 20 tables with each chef creating their own four course meal for one table of 10. Each table was served by the restaurants maître d’ and wine waiter and after the meal each table had the chance to meet their chef.

The evening was a huge success and ended with an exceptional “auction of chefs”, where diners had the opportunity to bid for one of the culinary stars to cook dinner in their own home. Residential Land successfully bid for Mark Edwards of Nobu to cook a private meal for 10 people. “Who’s Cooking Dinner” has raised £3.7million since its first charity auction in 1999.

If you would like to make a donation please visit:

www.whoscookingdinner.com/donatewho’scooki.html or to find out more about Leuka please visit www.leuka.org.uk

In December, Residential Land were invited to the Savitri Waney Charitable Trust Annual dinner held at Zuma restaurant in Knightsbridge. The dinner was hosted by Arjun Waney who set up the charity in 2001, naming it after his mother, Savitri.

Residential Land have proudly supported the Savitri Trust for a number of years. The annual dinner is always an enjoyable event, and provides an ideal opportunity to raise money for exceptional causes.

The Trust supports a number of different healthcare and community development projects throughout India and Nigeria with their primary focus remaining on curable blindness and mother & child healthcare.

Between 2010 and 2011 the Savitri Trust restored sight to 18,000 cataract sufferers living in poverty in Bihar, India. The trust is also involved in a four year long project targeting the issues surrounding mother-and-child healthcare in rural India, with an aim to drastically reduce infant and maternal mortality.

To find out more about the Savitri Waney Charitable Trust or to make a donation to this worthy cause, visit www.savitri.org.uk.

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