Claims to Fame !

Fundraising gives you the chance to meet more famous people than you can shake a stick at:

I met Sir Bob Geldof on a train. I told him that Live Aid inspired me to work for charities in fundraising and I’ve now done that for fifteen years. His response? ‘I’m really sorry about that’.

I met Tony Blair at Buckingham Palace. I was representing my then employer, St Luke’s Hospice, at the 50^th birthday party of their Patron (Prince Charles). He fobbed off Piers Morgan to talk to me!

Sir Bob Geldorf

I met Charlie Dimmock (lovely), Frank Carson (funny), Terry Waite (amazing), Ian Duncan-Smith (errr, can’t remember).

I met Prince Charles several times. My favourite conversation was at a polo match: me (trying to be ingratiating) ‘very well played Sir’. PC: ‘I was knackered before I got on the horse!’. Me: ‘ah, right, well to be honest, I’ve never seen a polo match before so I haven’t a clue if you were any good or not’. PC:’ Ha ha ha. Off with his head!’ (the last bit isn’t true).

I met the Queen in an engineering factory in Plymouth (bizarre I know). I’d persuaded two nurses to come from the hospice (the factory raised funds for the hospice). She was walking by our stand and didn’t make any move to acknowledge them so I stepped in to explain who they were. She said ‘oh’, smiled and walked on. In mitigation, she had just spent the better part of an hour walking around the shop floor of an engineering works…

Claims to Fame !

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