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Variety Wessex committee members and supporters have been busy raising funds for Variety, the Children’s Charity. The bucket collection at Tesco Branksome raised the fantastic sum of just over £300.

Variety Scotland treated children from several local schools to a carol concert at Paisley Abbey.

Variety, the Children’s Charity celebrated our 75th anniversary in the UK with the Chairman’s Reception hosted by Professor Jonathan Shalit OBE and Tushar Prabhu, Variety’s Chair and Co-Chair.

Richard Desmond and his wife, Joy, have brightened one nursery’s January with the gift of a Variety Sunshine Coach, donated in the names of their children, Angel and Valentine.

Variety Scotland has been thanked for the kind donation of selection boxes to Largs Foodbank.

Under the Chairmanship and leadership of CEO Sol, the brothers have built one of the UK’s largest privately owned real estate investment and development groups and Sol Zakay (Chairman and CEO) and Eddie Zakay (Deputy Chairman), will be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2024 PROPS Awards.

Bucket collections at two local pantomimes and a New Year’s Eve entertainment raised more than £4,000 for Variety Wessex.

A whopping £5,605.14 was raised via bucket collections at the Bournemouth Pavilion Pantomime ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’.

Family and friends of Harry Ellis-Grewal threw a memorial concert to mark the one-year anniversary of his passing, while raising funds for Variety, the Children’s Charity in his honour.

Two hundred excited youngsters from Bethany School in Boscombe packed into the Barrington Arts Centre in Ferndown to see Jack and the Beanstalk, all thanks to Variety, the Children’s Charity.