Look To The Stars News: Christian Aid

Madness Singer Launches Big Christmas Sing For Charity

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:30:00 +0000

On 9 November, Madness frontman Suggs and 2008 X Factor finalist Laura White will launch Christian Aid’s Big Christmas Sing with a free concert at Old Spitalfields Market. Suggs will host the event and perform his Christmas hit ‘Sleigh Bells’.

The concert will run from 5.30 – 7pm.

Turning on the market’s Christmas lights, Suggs and Laura will be joined by over 100 local school children who will perform three festive favourites. Laura will make a guest appearance on their final song, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, as well as performing three songs as a solo performer.

Madness Singer To Host Charity Big Christmas Sing

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:00:00 +0000

Madness frontman Suggs will follow in Olly Murs and Beverley Knight’s footsteps by launching this year’s Christian Aid Big Christmas Sing.

Kicking off the nationwide fundraiser, Suggs is hosting and performing at a free concert where he will be joined by other high profile artists. He’s encouraging others to warm up their vocal chords and join in this year’s Big Christmas Sing, taking place on 9-11 December.

Hayley Atwell Visits Nicaragua For Christian Aid Week

Mon, 16 May 2011 12:30:00 +0000

Hayley Atwell, one of the UK’s most successful young film actresses, (Brideshead Revisited, The Duchess and 2011 summer blockbuster Captain America) is supporting this year’s Christian Aid Week (May 15-21) which aims to ‘help people in poverty, out of poverty’ by supporting community projects in some of the world’s poorest countries.

Hayley visited Soppexcca, a co-operative of small-scale coffee producers in Nicaragua supported by Christian Aid. The project, which began working with 65 coffee producers in 2001, now works with 700 farmers and its ‘social fund’ benefits over 4,000 people in the Jinotega area. Profits from the coffee sales are invested back into the community, helping to fund innovative youth projects, the building of schools, health centres, and footbridges over local rivers as well as a shop that offers the local communities goods at discounted prices.

Soppexcca also runs specific programmes to help women, who often find it difficult to access credit in a male dominated society. They teach women about their rights, deal with issues such as domestic violence and give them the opportunity to acquire their own land on which to grow coffee. This enables them to support their children, improve their status within their community and even set up their own cooperatives and women’s unions.

Hugh Jackman Gives Up Coffee And Sugar For Charity

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:30:00 +0000

Hugh Jackman has vowed to give up coffee and sugar for a new charity campaign that encourages people to try and live on £1 a week to raise awareness of the 1.4 billion people around the world who live below the poverty line.

The star was spotted at a special event for the Global Poverty Project’s Live Below The Line campaign in London on Monday.

“I will be going without certain things,” he said, but added he cannot take part in the full challenge of living on £1 because he will be in the middle of an acting job during Live Below The Line week. "And actually I don’t mind saying I’m not doing it, because for people who want to do the challenge I’m totally thrilled and supportive of it and I think it’s fantastic and there’s 50,000 people around the world doing it.

LTTS Photo Gallery: Lily Cole Visits Burmese Refugees

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Christian Aid recently took model and actress Lily Cole to the Nai Soi Camp in Mae Hong Son, in Thailand, three miles from the Burmese border. There are 145,000 Burmese refugees living in nine camps along the border in Thailand, some of whom have been there for 26 years.

The Nai Soi camp is home to 15,000 refugees who have fled Burma in order to escape ongoing persecution, harassment, enforced labour and fighting.

Omid Djalili To Be Quiz Master For Charity

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Award-winning comedian and actor Omid Djalili has accepted a new role as QuizAid Master for Christian Aid’s first ever Twitter Quiz.

Omid will host a live online quiz held on his Twitter page (omid9) on 6 September at 12.30pm to launch this year’s QuizAid.

Beverley Knight To Perform At The Big Christmas Sing

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:30:00 +0000

Hundreds of ice skaters will join three-time MOBO award-winner Beverley Knight in a free charity Christmas performance at 5.30pm on Thursday 3rd December, at the Natural History Museum ice rink in South Kensington, London.

Beverley will be performing songs from her new album, along with Christmas favourites for a sing-a-long with skaters and fans. The event is to launch The Big Christmas Sing, a fundraising initiative from charity Christian Aid encouraging people across the country to get together and sing to raise money for some of the world’s poorest people this Christmas.

British Celebrities To Run For Christian Aid

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:30:00 +0000

A host of British celebrities are set to take part in a run for fun being held in Newcastle, UK, this weekend.

Jerome Flynn (Soldier, Soldier), Tim Campbell (first ever winner of The Apprentice), Kara Tointon (most recently seen as EastEnders’ Dawn Swann) and boyfriend Joe Swash (Winner of I’m a Celebrity…2008) will dig out their training shoes and join Christian Aid’s team of 90 runners in this year’s Great North Run, to help raise vital funds for poor communities around the world.

British Soap Star Gets Quizzing For Christian Aid Week

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:30:00 +0000

British actress and Eastenders star Kara Tointon is helping put the fun into fundraising by backing this year’s nationwide Quizaid during Christian Aid Week (10 – 16 May 2009), which aims to raise vital funds for the world’s poorest communities.

Last year Quizaid raised a brain-busting £185,000 for Christian Aid’s overseas development work in 49 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. This year the charity is challenging the great British public to use its grey matter to raise £225,000.

Organizing Quizaid couldn’t be easier with the charity providing packs with all you need including question cards, posters, invites, answer sheets and a certificate for the winning team. All quiz organisers will be entered into a draw for a year’s supply of chocolate courtesy of the fair trade company, Divine Chocolate. There is a similar draw for those that participate in Quizaid.

Danielle Lloyd Shops For A Good Cause

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:30:00 +0000

Celebrities famed for their extreme shopping could be feeling a little more saintly this year thanks to a new online shopping service that could turn them into some of the Britain’s biggest charity givers.

Model and TV personality Danielle Lloyd has pledged to do her Christmas shopping this year using www.aGoodCause.co.uk – a unique service which allows shoppers to donate to charity for free while they shop online. Hundreds of different retailers, including Tesco, Nike and Miss Selfridge are already signed up and Danielle hopes that other celebs – and anyone who loves spending – will follow suit and complete their Christmas shopping online via aGoodCause.co.uk.

Celebrities Listen For Disadvantaged Children

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:33:55 +0000

A huge and exciting new global media campaign has kicked off to raise awareness and funds for some of the world’s most disadvantaged children.

The Listen Campaign is the result of seven years work and research, and is being supported by a host of celebrities who want the public to listen to the rights and needs of children affected by poverty, disease, natural disaster, exploitation, war, and AIDS in places such as Africa, America, Asia, and Eastern Europe.

“Listen is an annual global media campaign bringing together some of the finest creative artists in film, music, and the arts to raise awareness and funds for 200 children’s charity projects around the world, and to develop a worldwide community of supporters,” said Tony Hollingsworth, Executive Producer of the campaign.