The ninth annual Absolute Return for Kids (ARK) fundraising gala dinner earlier in May raised an impressive £14.1m in one evening, though down from a peak of...
Hong Kong based Chinese billionaire businessman and K.B.E. Sir Ka-shing Li is donating £5m to Oxford University, which adds to the £800m already raised by the ...
The top 10 Chinese philanthropists, as listed in the recently published 2010 Hurun Philanthropy List, gave a total of £1.36bn over the last five years. The list’s publisher, Rupert Hoogewerf, told...
Philanthropy UK's new regular column on ‘Green Giving’ for 2010 is a response to the superordinate challenge that climate change presents to us all. Though Philanthropy UK is cause neutral,...
What do a Taiwanese vegetable stall holder, a Chelsea footballer and an American comedian have in common? Chen Shu-chu, Didier Drogba and Ben Stiller all appear in last month's 2010...
Laurence Graff, society jeweller and one of Britain's richest men, is returning some of his wealth to one of the diamond supplying countries that helped create...
Philanthropy UK's new regular column on ‘Green Giving’ for 2010 is a response to the superordinate challenge that climate change presents to us all. Though Philanthropy UK is cause neutral,...
Entrepreneur and Kwik Save founder Albert Gubay is bequesting his £800m property empire to charity, fulfilling a ‘deal with God’ he made as a young man. In fact, he is...
An intervention by the top investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett sets the tone for the theme of this latest round-up of philanthropy in difficult economic times. Buffett told an audience...
