Charity
BGC Charity Day 2008
BGC held its 4th Annual Global Charity Day on Thursday 11th September.
Consistent with its theme, “Working Globally. Giving Locally”, BGC’s offices around the world raised money for charity as we commemorated September 11 by reaching out to help others.
In New York, London, Paris, Sydney and Hong Kong, celebrities from the worlds of music, stage, screen and sport joined our brokers to help raise money for a number of selected charities. All of our global revenues generated from the day’s trading are donated to charity.
Charities that benefited from this year’s day were:
UK Charities:
• The Alder Hey Imagine Appeal
• The Anthony Nolan Trust
• Barnardo’s
• Breast Cancer Care
• Cruse Bereavement Care
• Debra
• The Jodie Kidd Foundation
• The Marina Dalglish Appeal
• Multiple Sclerosis
• NSPCC Childline
• Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy
• The Paul Hunter Foundation
• The Prince’s Trust
• Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity
• Richard House Children’s Hospice
• St Paul’s Cathedral Foundation
• Scope
• Sparks
• The Variety Club
• The Willow Foundation
US Charities:
• Baby Buggy
• The Boomer Esiason Foundation
• The Children’s Institute
• Ice Hockey in Harlem
• Jubilee Center
• Mercy Center
• National Down Syndrome Society
• Project Find
• Quality Services for the Autism Community
• The Valerie Fund
• Wounded Warrior Project
Continental Europe & Asia:
• J’ai un Reve (Continental Europe)
• La Licorne (Continental Europe
• Antennae Technologies (Continental Europe)
• L’Oeuvre De La Bouchee De Pain (Continental Europe)
• Stepping Stone House (Australia)
• Tour Duchenne (Australia)
• Australian Childhood Foundation (Australia)
• The Shane Warne Foundation (Australia)
• Christina Noble Children’s Foundation (Hong Kong)
• Chi Heng Foundation (China)
• Children’s Cancer Foundation (Singapore)
• Futaba Infant Home (Japan)
• Saint Joseph House (Japan)
Getting Involved:
BGC selects a number of charities to support each year and your charity could be next.
Although applications for this year’s event have closed, to apply for next year’s Charity Day, please submit an application in writing to:
UK CHARITIES
The Alder Hey Children’s Hospital is the largest and busiest children’s hospital in Europe, treating over 200,000 young people every year for everything from broken bones to complex conditions such as kidney disease, heart defects and cancer.
The Imagine Appeal was launched with the support of Yoko Ono in October 2005. Imagine improves the quality of life for children in hospital by supporting the pioneering work Alder Hey undertakes, improving the facilities and environment, providing the very latest medical equipment and researching conditions that children suffer from today, in the hope they won’t need to suffer from them in the future.
For more information please visit www.imagineappeal.com.
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The Anthony Nolan Trust manages the UK’s most successful ‘Register’ of volunteers prepared to donate their bone marrow to patients suffering from leukaemia whose only hope of survival is a bone marrow transplant. The Charity also conducts pioneering research into the treatment of leukaemia and other bone marrow disorders and improving the outcome of bone marrow transplants. The Anthony Nolan Trust is an independent charity, which receives no direct government funding. Our ongoing success is largely due to the continued generous support of many individuals and companies.
For more information please visit www.anthonynolan.org.uk.
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Barnardo’s vision is that the lives of all children and young people should be free from poverty, abuse and discrimination. Each year Barnardo’s help over 100,000 of the UK’s most vulnerable children, young people and their families.
For more information please visit www.barnardos.org.uk.
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Breast Cancer Care helps people affected by breast cancer, bringing people together, providing information and support, and campaigning for improved standards of care. Breast Cancer Care uses its understanding of people's experience of breast cancer and its clinical expertise in everything it does.
Breast Cancer Care is here to make sure that people affected by breast cancer have their questions answered and that friendly support from someone who really understands what they are going through is never far away.
For more information please visit www.breastcancercare.org.uk.
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Cruse Bereavement CareCruse is the only UK national charity which supports bereaved people of all ages, whatever the circumstances. Its mission is to promote the wellbeing of bereaved people, regardless of race, age, sexuality or religious beliefs, helping them to understand their grief and cope with their loss. Services are delivered by 5,500 volunteers in 140 branches throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Cruse is also the largest UK charity providing support to bereaved children, through face-to-face support, or via a freephone helpline and website messageboards.
For more information please visit www.cruse.org.uk.
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DebRA is a national charity working on behalf of people in the UK with the genetic skin blistering condition Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). EB is a very rare genetic condition where the skin and body linings blister at the slightest knock or rub, causing painful, open wounds. DebRA is the only patient support group and medical research charity in the UK working on behalf of people living with EB. Since its establishment in 1978 DebRA has, thanks entirely to voluntary donations, been able to help people who live with this painful, horrific and disabling condition.
For more information please visit www.debra.org.uk.
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The Jodie Kidd Foundation is an umbrella organisation dedicated to raising money in support of charities close to Jodie’s heart. The charities currently benefiting from the Foundation are the Monsoon Accessorize Trust, NSPCC and Greatwood. In 2007 the Foundation raised £100,000 for the three charities which enabled increased staff, project support and vital supplies for all the organizations. On the 21st July 2008, almost another £100,000 was raised which will again be distributed amongst the charities
For more information please visit www.thejodiekiddfoundation.co.uk.
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The Marina Dalglish Appeal has reached its original target of £1.5m enabling the opening of the centre for Oncology at University Hospital, Aintree, on 4th June 2007. The unit provides the ideal environment for patients to receive chemotherapy to treat all forms of cancer. The centre also offers supportive care including complimentary and homeopathic treatments and practices. There is also a designated drop in centre which provides specialised 'holistic' professional care, information and advice to help patients and their families through their cancer journey, in an atmosphere that is sensitive and responsive to their individual needs. It is through the continued support and generous contributions of the public that we have been able to achieve our goal.
For more information please visit www.marinadalglishappeal.org.
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The Multiple Sclerosis Society was founded just over 50 years ago. Its main aims are to eradicate the disease and to ensure the best possible welfare for anyone who is affected by it. MS is the most common disabling neurological condition affecting young adults. Around 85,000 people in the UK have MS which is the result of damage to myelin - a protective sheath surrounding nerve fibres of the central nervous system. When myelin is damaged, this interferes with messages between the brain and other parts of the body. For some people, MS is characterised by periods of relapse and remission while for others it has a progressive pattern. For everyone, it makes life unpredictable.
For more information please visit www.mssociety.org.uk.
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ChildLine, a service provided by the NSPCC, is the UK’s free, 24-hour helpline for children and young people who need to talk about any problem. Trained volunteer counsellors comfort, advise and protect children and young people who often feel they have nowhere else to turn. Since it was launched in 1986, ChildLine has saved children's lives, found refuges for children in danger on the streets, and given hope to thousands of children who believed no one else cared for them. ChildLine has now counselled well over two million children and young people.
For more information please visit www.childline.org.uk.
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Nordoff-Robbins Music TherapyNordoff-Robbins Music Therapy is the UK’s largest specialist music therapy charity, providing over 30,000 therapy sessions a year through its National Centre in London and over 50 regional projects nationwide. It also runs postgraduate training programmes in music therapy and a research programme with regular public courses and conferences. The Charity’s work is grounded in the belief that everyone can respond to music, no matter how ill or disabled and the Nordoff-Robbins approach to music therapy was developed from the pioneering work of composer and pianist Paul Nordoff and special needs teacher Clive Robbins in the 1950/60s.
For more information please visit www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk.
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The Paul Hunter FoundationThe Paul Hunter Foundation aims to fund local community schemes and snooker activities across the UK and Ireland. The primary target is to develop interest in snooker within the younger age groups specifically targeting under privileged and disabled children. The Foundation will provide quality coaching in approved facilities and in enjoyable surroundings. In addition it is the intention that each grant will be aimed at developing social skills and education on the misuse of drugs.
For more information please visit www.paulhunterfoundation.org.
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Youth charity The Prince's Trust helps change young lives. It gives practical and financial support, developing key workplace skills such as confidence and motivation. It helps 14- to 30-year-olds who have struggled at school, have been in care, are long-term unemployed or have been in trouble with the law.
The Prince’s Trust helps 100 more young people each working day. More than three in four young people The Trust helped last year got a job, went back to school or began training. Most importantly, these young people developed the confidence to create a brighter future.
For more information please visit www.princes-trust.org.uk.
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Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity
Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity provides practical and emotional support to families across England who are facing the unimaginable prospect of losing their child to a life threatening or terminal illness. We currently help around 1,000 families each year but 10,000 families receive the devastating news that their child has a life threatening or terminal illness. We support families irrespective of circumstance, ethnicity, social background, nationality or religion who have a child up to the age of 18 and offer a 24 hour service 365 days of the year.
For more information please visit www.rainbowtrust.org.uk.
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Richard House Children’s Hospice
Richard House Children’s Hospice in Beckton, east London, has been providing care and support for life-limited and life-threatened children and their families since the year 2000. We accompany them during the child or young person’s journey through life to death, creating positive experiences along the way which become good memories for the future. Our services are wide-ranging, completely free to families and tailored to our multi-cultural community in and around London. We need to raise £1.8 million this year in voluntary donations to keep Richard House open and provide these valuable services.
For more information please visit www.richardhouse.org.uk.
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St Paul’s Cathedral Foundation
The St Paul’s Cathedral Foundation was established to raise funds to mark the 300th Anniversary of the masterwork of Britain’s most admired architect, Sir Christopher Wren, and one of the world’s best-loved buildings. Our objective is to clean, restore and conserve the Cathedral fabric, and to further its theological, educational and musical work. We also aim to broaden public access and understanding of St Paul’s, its history and context.
For more information please visit www.stpauls.co.uk.
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Scope is a leading disability charity, with a mission to make our society the first where disabled people achieve equality. This means creating a society where disabled people are as valued, and have the same human rights as everyone else.
Scope funds projects which aim to change perceptions around disability and enable disabled people to exercise choice and control over their everyday lives. Each year, Scope support over 20,000 disabled people through a range of innovative projects, from supporting disabled children in accessing activities in their local community to working with disabled adults to empower them to make their own choices around living independently and gaining employment. We also assist parents of disabled children through Face 2 Face; Scope’s one-to-one befriending service which supports parents following the news of diagnosis.
For more information please visit www.scope.org.uk
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SPARKS is a dynamic young charity founded by leading sportsmen and women devoted to the idea that all children should share the joy of kicking a ball or running a race. In spite of all the efforts made on our behalf, every year we run out of money before we run out of worthy projects needing our help. And that’s heartbreaking when you consider that in the UK, most pioneering paediatric research has to be funded by charities like SPARKS rather than the public purse.
For more information please visit www.sparks.org.uk.
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The Variety Club Children’s Charity supports sick, disabled and disadvantaged children and young people.
Our famous Sunshine Coaches take Variety’s work into every town in Britain and across the globe, giving many children real and positive educational and fun experiences. In 1962, the first Sunshine Coaches were created to help steer disabled children over the physical and attitudinal barriers on the road to independence. The Variety Club’s supporters all share one aim – to work together to achieve greater equality and independence for children throughout the U.K.
For more information please visit www.varietyclub.org.uk.
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The Willow Foundation is a national charity that provides quality of life and quality of time for seriously ill 16 to 40 year olds by funding and organising special days.
To date the Willow Foundation has provided more than 3,700 days nationwide to 16 to 40 year olds living with cancer, cystic fibrosis, motor neurone disease, muscular dystrophy and Huntington's, amongst other conditions. Established by Bob Wilson and his wife Megs, the Willow Foundation is a lasting memorial to their daughter, Anna, who died of cancer aged 31.
For more information please visit www.willowfoundation.org.uk.
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US CHARITIES
Baby Buggy is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing essential equipment, clothing and products for infants and young children to New York City families in need. With an extensive network of community based organization in the fiver boroughs, Baby Buggy has donated nearly 3,000,000 items to thousands of children.
For more information please visit www.babybuggy.org.
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The Boomer Esiason Foundation is a dynamic partnership of leaders in the medical and business communities joining with a committed core of volunteers to heighten awareness, education and the quality of life for those affected by cystic fibrosis, while providing financial support to research aimed at finding a cure.
To achieve its mission, the Boomer Esiason Foundation sponsors a series of diverse annual fundraising events. It also relies on individual pledges, corporate contributions and philanthropic grants.
For more information please visit www.esiason.org.
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The Children's Institute (TCI) is a private, non-profit school approved by the New Jersey State Board of Education, serving children facing learning, language and social challenges, ages 3-21. Originating in Newark, New Jersey as an orphanage and sheltering home in 1890, TCI has evolved into a school that has been a pioneer in special education since 1963. Today, TCI serves children from northern New Jersey, including Essex, Union, Morris, Hudson, Middlesex, Passaic, Bergen and adjoining counties.
For more information please visit www.tcischool.org
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Celebrating its 21st year, Ice Hockey In Harlem (IHIH) is a not-for-profit, privately supported after-school hockey and education program serving children in the Harlem community. IHIH uses the sport of hockey to promote academic achievement, responsibility, teamwork and good character. IHIH's mission is to offer a hockey program along with educational and social services to children, ages 4-17. The program includes weekly classroom session where students learn responsibility, the history of hockey, the rules, players and teams, educational grants and educational assistance, summer camp scholarships and diverse community service projects and mentoring.
For more information please visit www.icehockeyinharlem.org.
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The Jubilee Center of Hoboken is an after school and summer safe haven for children who reside primarily in Hoboken’s Public Housing development; a neighborhood with a history of gang activity, violent crime and drug related arrests. The Jubilee Center provides quality after school and summer programming for students K-6th grade. It is located at 601 Jackson Street directly across from the Public Housing Authority and provide meals for every child as well as a wide assortment of cultural and enrichment activities that children might not otherwise have an opportunity to be exposed to.
For more information please visit www.jubileecenterhoboken.org.
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National Down Syndrome Society
The National Down Syndrome Society is a non-profit organization representing the more than 400,000 Americans who have this genetic condition. NDSS is committed to being the national leader in supporting and enhancing the quality of life, and realizing the potential of all people with Down syndrome. We demonstrate this commitment through our education, research and advocacy initiatives that benefit people with Down syndrome and their families.
For more information please visit www.ndss.org.
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Mercy Center
Mercy Center is a South Bronx community center located in the poorest congressional district in the United States. Standing as a beacon of hope in an area that includes a largely immigrant population, meager employment opportunities, and failing schools, Mercy Center’s mission is to empower women and other family members to reach their full human potential, lead meaningful lives, and be agents of change in their families and communities.
For more information please visit www.mercycenterbronx.org.
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Project FIND’s mission is to provide low- and moderate-income and homeless elders on Manhattan’s west side with the services and support they need to enrich their lives and live independently in the community for as long as possible.
Today, Project FIND operates three supportive housing residences that are home to 600 elders and five senior centers with 2,500 members. For all of our residents and center members, Project FIND is a true lifeline, providing housing, meals, and programs that help seniors cope with the challenges of aging by encouraging socialization, healthy living, hope, and optimism.
For more information please visit www.projectfind.org.
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Quality Services for the Autism Community
QSAC is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing services to persons with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their families throughout New York City and Long Island. QSAC’s comprehensive services and programs range from early intervention and preschool programs for young children to day programs and residential services for adults. QSAC’ programs provide all participants with the opportunity to acquire, maintain, and practice the skills necessary to lead a more fulfilling and independent life and become productive members of the community.
For more information please visit www.qsac.com.
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Wounded Warrior Project’s (WWP) mission is to honor and empower wounded warriors. WWP seeks to assist those men and women of our nation’s armed forces who have been severely injured during the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other locations around the world. Many of the injuries are traumatic amputations, gunshot wounds, burns, and blast injuries that will retire these brave warriors from military service.
WWP’s support begins just after injury. Transitional Care Packs are provided at overseas field hospitals to offer immediate comfort during a warrior’s relocation to a U.S. military trauma center. There, they receive a signature WWP Backpack with comfort items and necessities, benefits counseling, and family assistance, all to help them through their initial stages of recovery. WWP then provides ongoing, lifelong assistance including adaptive sports and recreation, internship opportunities, employment programs, and an alumni network to foster communication, support, and brotherhood between wounded warriors.
For more information please visit www.woundedwarriorproject.org.
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The Valerie FundThe Valerie Fund is a not-for-profit organization established in 1976 in memory of nine-year-old Valerie Goldstein by her parents, Ed and Sue, who saw the need for making quality outpatient care available close to a child’s home. They realized that parents of sick children should not have to contend with exhaustive commutes to reach adequate medical care. Their grass-roots effort began in their basement with the help of dedicated friends and family.
Today, The Valerie Fund Children’s Centers, located at 7 major hospitals in the tri-state area, comprise one of the nation’s largest networks of health care facilities for children with cancer and blood disorders. These centers treat almost 5,000 children each year.
For more information please visit www.thevaleriefund.org.
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REST OF THE WORLD CHARITIES
J’ai un Reve (Continental Europe)
The association J’ai un Rêve was founded 5 years ago by the former world synchronized swimming champion, Muriel HERMINE. The association’s goal is to give a helping hand to underprivileged children with severe schooling and family difficulties.
For more information please visit www.jai-un-reve.com.
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La Licorne (Continental Europe)
This association has the following aim:
“To help, assist, accommodate, train and educate the children disadvantaged by forming them with the horsemanship and the trades of the horse, by the creation of places of reception appropriate with the horsemanship and the trades of the horse in France or abroad. The installation of social actions or cultural or benevolence related to the object”.
For more information visit www.lalicorne.org.
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L’Oeuvre De La Bouchee De Pain (Continental Europe)
"L'Oeuvre de la Bouchee de Pain" was founded in 1884. In 1900, its work was recognised as being of public interest by french authorities. It is a non-profit organization with a mission of fighting hunger.
Its founder, Mr Bourreif, gave the organization its motto: 'You who suffer from hunger, come to us'.
"L'Oeuvre de la Bouchee de Pain" is non-religious and non-political. It provides help to all, without discrimination. "L'Oeuvre de la Bouchee de Pain" is entirely funded by generous public and private donations .
We ask for your help, so that we can continue to help those who need it most. On behalf of all those who are in need, please help us provide them with their vital daily necessities.
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International NGO specialized in research and development of appropriate technologies in response of basic essential needs of population in extreme poverty. Antenna Technologies tackles malnutrition, unclean drinking water and aims to provide medicine supplies.
For more information, please visit www.antenna-technologies.net
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Stepping Stone House (Australia)Stepping Stone House was established in 1989 by a group of caring Australians. They were concerned by the number of homeless teenagers in our society. The Stepping Stone programme is designed to help these young people, often neglected and abused as children, to take responsibility for their own lives. The aim is to empower them through nurturing and challenging experiences.
For more information please visit www.steppingstonehouse.com.au.
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The Tour Duchenne ‘Million Dollar Challenge’ is a bike ride with a difference. Like the name suggests our aim is to raise $1 million for research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy to help find a cure for one of the most insidious diseases that affects boys early in their lives.
At present, there is no cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. A devastating, progressive muscle-destroying disorder, it confines kids to an electric wheelchair prematurely and significantly reduces their life expectancy.
However there is hope. And that hope comes in the form of research and, most importantly, money for research.
For more information please visit www.tourduchenne.com.
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Australian Childhood Foundation (Australia)
The Australian Childhood Foundation is a national charity which works in a number of ways to prevent child abuse and make children’s welfare a priority. The Australian Childhood Foundation delivers a range of services to help stop child abuse including specialist counselling, training and education, research, advocacy and positive parenting programs. The Australian Childhood Foundation positively affect the lives of thousands of children across Australia.
For more information please visit www.childhood.org.au.
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The Shane Warne Foundation (Australia)
Shane Warne receives countless requests from charities every year and every year, despite his personal and professional commitments, he manages to make time to respond too many of these. Such involvement has helped Shane come to a realisation of the type of organisation he shares the greatest affinity with: those that help bring some quality into the lives of seriously ill and underprivileged children.
The following are just some of the organisations Shane has contributed to over the last few years; whether it be his time, financially, or by bringing joy to the lives of the children involved.
• Challenge Kids With Cancer
• The Make A Wish Foundation
• Starlite Foundation
• Beth’s Legacy
• Red Nose Day
• Trevor Barker Foundation
• Variety Club
• Melbourne Royal Children’s Hospital
For more information visit www.tswf.com.au.
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Christina Noble Children’s Foundation (Hong Kong)
The Christina Noble Children’s Foundation (CNCF) provides at-risk children in Vietnam and Mongolia with access to education, medical care, social opportunities and job placement. The Foundation seeks to maximise the potential of each child within the context of their own family and community whenever possible, and always with love and respect for the dignity of every child as an individual.
For more information please visit www.cncf.org.
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Chi Heng Foundation (Hong Kong)
Many children have been impacted by AIDS in Central China since the epidemic began during the early 90s when vast number of poor farmers sold blood in order to earn some extra money.
In provinces such as Henan, many blood collection stations used unsterile methods that quickly spread the disease; as a result, many peasants have been infected with HIV. In a number of families, all adults are dead or ailing, leaving their children behind to survive on their own.
These children, most of whom are not infected with HIV, live in dire poverty. Many can barely afford to feed themselves, much less pay the fees required to stay in school.
In response to this, the Chi Heng Foundation is sponsoring children impacted by AIDS in Central China so that they can obtain an education, a tool that is crucial for achieving a better life. There are currently more than 3,000 students under our sponsorship of education and other care services, though this represents a fraction of the total number of orphans.
For more information, please visit www.chihengfoundation.com
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Children’s Cancer Foundation (Singapore)
The Children’s Cancer Foundation (CFF) is a non-profit organization that aims to improve the quality of lives of children with cancer and their families through enhancing their emotional, social and medical well being. This is achieved by providing counseling, employing therapeutic play, conducting support groups, organizing children and family outings, offering financial assistance, educating the families, supporting training and research and promoting public awareness on childhood cancer.
For more information visit www.ccf.org.sg.
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The Futaba Infant Home is a facility which helps to raise young children.
“What’s best for a child” is always of utmost interest for us. We provide support programs to help parents’ better raise and support their children so they may grow up in a healthy and productive environment. We also have a foster home for older children, and 2 day-care centers.”
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St Joseph Home is a catholic’s children’s home and was established in August 1946. The home provides living areas, learning opportunities and emotional support to children so that they can grow up and be more confident in society.
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Getting Involved
BGC selects a number of charities to support each year. Your organisation could be next. To apply for support on our next Annual Charity Day, please submit an application in writing to:
gcowdrey@bgcpartners.com