“The Future of the World Rests with the Child”
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“THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD RESTS WITH THE CHILD” EGLANTYNE JEBB, FOUNDER, SAVE THE CHILDREN Together, we can give kids a strong and healthy start in life, so they can grow up and change the world! What are your hopes and dreams for children? Help make them happen tonight. MESSAGE FROM THE CO-CHAIRS Dear Friends, Millions of boys and girls have better lives It can sometimes feel like nothing we give is and brighter futures because of the efforts of ever enough, and that no matter how much Save the Children and the many people that we care, we can’t make a difference. But every support their work. We are thrilled and very gesture, however simple can change a child’s grateful to everyone who is joining us tonight, life. By supporting one school in Syria we can as we recognise all that has been achieved for put a smile on hundreds of young faces, by children over the past 100 years and recommit supporting a clinic in Cox’s Bazar we can end to the work ahead. terrible suffering, by providing food vouchers in Yemen we can give a family dignity. Any act of Photo: Pim Ras/Save the Children Pim Ras/Save Photo: Since 1919, when Save the Children’s founder kindness to children – even if it might seem like Eglantyne Jebb worked to save the lives of a humble contribution – will bring back hope. starving children behind the British Blockade, And for many children, all they have is hope. this organisation has been fighting for children in the hardest to reach and toughest Tonight is about hope. We would like to thank environments. our incredible friends on the Event Committee, the evening’s artists and everyone else who Thanks to the tremendous generosity of has helped make this evening possible. And ARTICLE 22 – YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SPECIAL PROTECTION AND HELP their supporters, Save the Children reached we welcome everyone who would like to join IF YOU ARE A REFUGEE. 40.8 million children worldwide through their us in bringing hope to the world’s children. By health, education, and protection activities bidding on auction lots or making a donation Increasing girls’ participation in sport helps programmes also help girls to find their voice in 2018. From the UK alone, the Children’s you will change a child’s life, perhaps many develop their resilience, confidence and their and speak out about the issues that affect them, Emergency Fund responded to 87 emergencies children’s lives and keep their hope alive. understanding of their human rights. Together such as child marriage. across 38 countries. Please be as generous as you can! with the Arsenal Foundation, Save the Children runs football programmes across Jordan and Indonesia in conjunction with our multi-activity £8,800 centres. enables 1,000 girls to participate Girls are given psychosocial support delivered in our award-winning football and Helena Bonham Carter Arabella Duffield Dora Loewenstein through the sport they love, building their psychosocial programmes. emotional and mental wellbeing. Our unique Co-Chairs, Save the Children Centenary Gala 2 3 GALA COMMITTEE HOST: CO-CHAIRS: David Walliams Helena Bonham Carter Arabella Duffield Photo: Charlie Forgham-Bailey/Save the Children Charlie Forgham-Bailey/Save Photo: Dora Loewenstein EVENT COMMITTEE: Princess Zahra Aga Khan Sophie Ellis-Bextor Zein Kurdi Jackie Annesley Allie Esiri Camilla Lowther Asli Arah Luke Evans Charlotte Macleod Emma Askari Alessandra Galtrucco Leigh Message Laura Bailey Louise Galvin Marc Quinn Leonora Bamford Azzi Glasser Sumru Ramsay ARTICLE 24 – YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO THE BEST HEALTH POSSIBLE AND TO MEDICAL Myrtle Barrow Susan Greco Joely Richardson CARE AND TO INFORMATION THAT WILL HELP YOU TO STAY WELL. Leigh Bataillon Alison Green Joey Ritblat Tara Bernerd Pia Hahn Marocco Kadee Robbins Mary is at Galilee clinic, in the DRC, where Vaccinations are the most cost-effective way of Lisa Bilton Katrin Henkel Tarka Russell she receives her vaccinations, including against preventing illness, with an economic return of Emily Crompton Candy Natasha Kaplinsky Francesca Schwarzenbach pneumonia. Save the Children is working across c.£12 for every £1 invested. Poppy Delevingne Lauren Kemp Lorraine Spencer the DRC to ensure that children stay healthy Mollie Dent Brocklehurst Ruth Kennedy Cristina White despite the complex humanitarian crisis. £35,000 Last year, nearly 1 million under-fives around the world died from pneumonia. It kills more could pay for the equipment to give life- CREATIVE CONSULTANTS: children than any other disease. But we know saving vaccinations to 10,000 children Nicholas Allott Tim Rice how to prevent and treat pneumonia and we're living in conflict. Matt Clifford Jon Snow getting life-saving vaccines to children. Paul Lyon-Maris Caryn Tomlinson Paul Pacifico 4 5 Augustus_Martin_STC_Advert_2019_187x220.pdf 1 26/04/2019 14:37 PROGRAMME OF THE EVENING AUGUSTUS 7.30pm Reception with the Rag-Time Band Silent Auction opens MARTIN 8.15pm Guests take their seats for dinner 8.25pm Welcome by the evening's host – David Walliams PROVIDING SOLUTIONS 8.30pm Address by HRH The Princess Royal, Patron, Save the Children FOR BRANDS AND RETAILERS 8.35pm Dinner is served 9.25pm The Story of Eglantyne Jebb, founder, Save the Children ... whose vision, courage and determination changed the way the world regards and treats children, when she pioneered the then revolutionary concept of children having human rights. PRINT PRODUCTION PROJECT LEADERSHIP 10.25pm “You Are Not Alone” written and performed by Emeli Sandé and children from Chickenshed 2022 DESIGN NEW MEDIASTORE COMPLIANCE 10.35pm The Centenary Pledge conducted by David Walliams and Luke Evans E-MANAGEMENT R&D STORAGE & DISTRIBUTION 10.45pm Aftershow with The AllStars PROTOTYPING & CAD SPECIAL EFFECTS Pudding canapés and coffee STORE SUPPORT OUTDOOR MEDIA 11.00pm Silent Auction closes Midnight Carriages PROUD TO SUPPORT 7 MENU FIRST COURSE Cured yellow fin tuna, cucumber pickle, avocado, crab, radish, jalapeño and yuzu granite MAIN COURSE Cornish duck glazed with honey, rosemary and thyme, spiced rhubarb, potato gratin dauphinois, pickled spring mushrooms and duck poivrade PUDDINGS Gooseberry and elderflower mini ice cream cone Malted chocolate truffle, cacao nibs, edible gold Mini dark chocolate ice cream bomb Lime meringue, organic lemon curd, tarragon sugar tuile Raspberry sphere, black pepper sable, lemon and basil yoghurt WINE Clarendelle, inspired by Haut-Brion, blanc 2018 Clarendelle, inspired by Haut-Brion, rouge 2015 Wines generously donated by HRH Prince Robert of Luxembourg on behalf of Domaine Clarence Dillon Oksana Kutcheruk, Prima ballerina from the National Opera Ballet of Bordeaux CLARENDELLE INSPIRED BY HAUT-BRION A simple taste of Elegance 9 THE STORY OF EGLANTYNE JEBB, FOUNDER, SAVE THE CHILDREN It was Spring 1919, when the determined young ‘surely it is impossible, as normal human beings, to Introducing a short play English woman, Eglantyne Jebb, started her brave watch children starve to death, without making an and pioneering fight to save the world’s hardest effort to save them’. She soon won over factory to reach and most vulnerable children. girls and aristocrats, the Pope in the Vatican, even THE STORY the wife of the British Prime Minister whose laws Horrified by the millions of children left starving she had defied, donated to the newly launched of in Germany and Austria after the First World War, Save the Children Fund. Eglantyne stood in Trafalgar Square and handed EGLANTYNE JEBB out leaflets that showed the emaciated children “SURELY IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR US with a headline: “The British Blockade has caused AS NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS, TO FOUNDER, SAVE THE CHILDREN this – millions of children are starving to death.” WATCH CHILDREN STARVE TO DEATH WITHOUT MAKING AN EFFORT TO Passersby turned away from the disturbing flyer SAVE THEM.” whose vision, courage and determination but Eglantyne was determined not to let people changed the way the world regards and treats ignore the devastation caused by the British Two years later, in response to the Russian famine, children, when she pioneered the then government. Her passion and determination led Eglantyne and Save the Children chartered a to her being arrested for treason. She was found cargo ship, the SS Torcello, to carry 600 tons of revolutionary concept of guilty and fined for her protest. But the judge lifesaving food and medical supplies to Russia – an was so impressed with Eglantyne’s rhetoric that impressive feat of international negotiations and children having human rights. he paid her fine. His money became the first logistics that saved hundreds of thousands of lives. donation to Save the Children. Then, in 1924, Eglantyne, an ardent walker, scaled Mont Salève, Geneva. It was here she drafted her Created and written by Charlotte Bogard Macleod pioneering statement of children’s human rights. Her vision has become the most universally Directed by Anthony Biggs accepted human rights instrument in history giving inspiration to the 1989 UN Convention Animation and Screens by Lisa Wrake on the Rights of the Child, a landmark human with thanks also to Glassworks rights treaty. Lighting Design Woodroffe Bassett Design 100 years later her legacy continues. Last year Sound Design Ed Clarke alone, together with the incredible generosity Production Pete Barford of our donors and volunteers, Save the Children changed the lives of more than 40.8 million Performed by children worldwide through health, education, and Helena Bonham Carter Exploiting the publicity around the trial, Eglantyne protection activities. And our passion and resolve Sue Perkins called a meeting at the Royal Albert Hall on 19 has never been stronger. With the hopes and Joely Richardson May 1919, a meeting that was to raise awareness dreams of so many children still being destroyed, Children from Chickenshed of the devastation the British Blockade was we must continue our founders’ mission: a world causing.