I’m David and as a long time Twickenham resident, I have personally and in my business always been involved in charitable and community events.
Here are the ones I can remember!
Samaritan at Ealing branch for 3 years – including 8 night shifts a year.
First ever person to be a paid Sponsor of Eel Pie Island Museum (£1000).
Main Sponsor, St Margarets Fair 2018.
Main Sponsor, Strawberry Hill Fun Day, 2015.
Main Sponsor, Twickenham Riverside Music Events – many years.
I brought down my own PA system and set it up and hosted this event.
Hosted this fun / ironic event on stage, which was part of the August Bank Holiday fair
Created the ‘Chamber Chillout’- the Chamber’s successful summer party by the river in Richmond. I came up with the name and concept, designed the invitations and again played for free while paying my fellow musicians myself.
Peter Desmond, whom I met through the Chamber of Commerce, is trustee of a charity his daughter works at in South Africa, The African Pulse, which helps people suffering from HIV. He wanted to have a charity concert for it and joked about getting the ‘Bhundu Boys’, a famous African 80s band to play at it.
I booked the venue, designed the marketing, and hosted and promoted the event. It was packed out and a huge success – and through my contacts the main act was the only surviving Bhundu Boy! Rise Kagona With his band plus Champoin Doug Veitch This was all done for no fee of course and the charity benefited by £1800 as well as a raised profile to local people.
Was a Main Event Sponsor (even though I’m not in Church Street! I love the street anyway) I played for free, paid my band, provided my own PA equipment, and booked and organised the other 3 bands.
The Mayor, Clare Head, asked me to bring my band to play at her event in the Park and I gladly agreed, being a Main Event Sponsor, playing for free myself again as usual.
I am a former Chairman of a branch of BNI – 30 local business people in a supportive network. I was a member for 3 years, breakfasting there every single week and supporting new ventures in the borough.