Today I had the pleasure of starting the day with a champagne breakfast with Fiona Bruce at London's Guildhall...along with an audience of about 500 others, mainly women, as part of an event celebrating the contribution of women in the Square Mile, in connection with International Women's Day 2011.
Fiona, who is a patron of the charity Refuge hosted the event and gave a number of anecdotes from her career in broadcasting, but also some unbelievable statistics with regards to the work of Refuge, the charity which provides support, advice & guidance to victims of domestic violence.
The charity relies on charitable donations to fund the work that it does, and in these difficult times is finding it particularly hard to keep revenue levels up.
However, consider this...
Every week in the UK TWO women are murdered and TEN women commit suicide as a direct result of domestic violence. Despite this...
...the Top 3 women's charities in the UK, of which Refuge is one, have a combined annual income through charitable donations of £17m...
...which is less that the £21m raised by... the Donkey Sanctuary charity!
There are clearly many good causes & many people raising money for good causes, but surely (and I, like Fiona Bruce have nothing against Donkeys!) we have not got our priorities right on this one!
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