A huge thank you must go to all those companies and sponsors who have donated their time, expertise and services mostly free-of-charge or at a very reduced rate. With their support the White Rose Charity Ball will be able to secure the long term future of the important educational programmes for children at The Holocaust Centre.
The Pears Foundation - Ian Shaw, Adam Winton and of course Trevor Pears for ongoing support and advice.
The very special Holocaust Survivors for their continued inspiration
The Groucho Club for being there throughout - especially Bernie Katz, The Prince of Soho!
The Steinberg Family Charitable Trust
Celebrity Support
Stephen Fry and his divine sister/manager Jo Crocker
Liza Minnelli for being here with us and sharing her fabulous voice and talent tonight
The wonderful Jersey Boys and Glen Carter (fabulous former Jersey Boy) for his help
Lisa Friend – incredible international flautist for playing beautiful music
4 Poofs and a Piano for providing humour and fun
Richard Bacon, Maureen Lipman and Emilia Fox – supreme hosts
Damien Flood – playing great music so we can dance the night away
Creative Celebrity Chefs: Tom Parker Bowles, Rowley Leigh, Fergus Henderson and Tim Wilson
PR
Nick Fiveash from PR & Management for everything to do with Liza Minnelli
The Bishop of Soho, Keith Bishop for his invaluable PR help and Melanie Faldo at MCS
Mel Brown of Impressive PR for her advice and the red carpet treatment for our guests and celebrities
Annie Tidyman at Crossing O’Sullivan for designing our logo and being infinitely patient
Carl Hopgood for drawing the white rose, which has become part of our emblem
Greg Geny and Gavin Gray from Eviivo for their support
The Film Team
All those who gave their time and energy to produce the new films about The Holocaust Centre:
Alan Greenspan, Executive Producer of 6 Degree Media
Mike Appleton, freelance documentary film maker
Dudi Appleton, Director and drama screen writer
Halo Post Production
Nicola Larder, BBC Producer
Lady Steinberg for sponsoring the new films being launched this evening about the Holocaust Centre
ALSO
HSBC and Cardnet for waiving their fees
Thank you to Suzanne Rosenberg, Makeup Artist who will keep us all looking great on the evening
Janet Mills, Lawrie Boarer, Rowland Elmer, Glen Powell and Brenda Justice from the Holocaust Centre for their hard work
Emily Hooker, Dominos Pizzas
Jason Nash – our friend
Steven Duvall from Seq Futures for sponsorship
Sapna Burton for her advice on sponsorship
The Independent Production Company for their total support
The Center for White Rose Studies for helping with Twitter
Virgin Atlantic for helping with a flight for Liza Minnelli
The Auction and Raffle Prize donors
Our friend, Lock Anderson Kresler from Christie’s Auction House – our Auction host
Jeff Healy for sourcing a unique Egg designed by Sarah Faberge
Russell Singler of Art You Grew Up With for his generous art donations
Triana de Lamo Terry for her portrait painting of Arek Hersh
Kate Bright for donating a wonderful work of art
Tony Husband for donating three original cartoons from Private Eye
Cindy Lass for a beautiful crystallised work of art
Caroline List for a beautiful painting
Maureen Lipman for a piece of her own art
William Kaczynski for donating an original Sachsenhausen Bank banknote
Anita Stubbs from Talkback TV
Gina Lyons at Porcelain Film
Wendy Frost at West 4 Music
Elaine Kennedy at Tantrums and Tiaras
Meg Matthews
Adam Garcia
Lee Mead
Chris Tarrant
Jimmy Choo
Stephen Merchant
Wolford London
Oxford Hotels and Inns
St. Pancras Grand
Soraya at The Studio
Kirk Originals
Patrick Ludde Salon
Third Space
Twentieth Century Fox
The Event
Francesca de Takats for bringing Liza Minnelli to the Ball and everything else! Truly amazing.
Victoria Larder for organising, negotiating and planning the Ball, and just keeping going.
Nicola Larder - thank you for the Jersey Boys and for caring so much.
The Park Plaza Riverbank for their beautiful venue and Laura de Klein for all her help
Richard Hyman of Titanic for supplying the crackers to go with the cheese
Simon Jackson and Jeff Allen at Sensible Music for donating the sound and lighting plus creating a wonderful technical team
Well Dressed Tables – for their well dressed tables
Faisal Naqvi at Air Aromas for making the ball smell so fantastic of roses
Amanda Wiersma at Genix for her gorgeous prints which adorn the ballroom
The Community Security Trust
Ruth Corney for fabulous photography and general support
Toby Merritt for coming up to the Holocaust Centre and taking some great photos
Laura Perkins – superb photographer and friend
Ian Coggin at Dewlay for providing all the darn tasty delicious cheese
Lynn Boon for her technical expertise and drawings
Neil Latter, Richard Swallow, Betty Kanova, Pete Maugham and Chris Hadley from The Purple Group for managing the event and pre-Ball PR
A special thank you to our wonderful White Rose Charity Ball Committee who have dedicated the last 9 months to creating a brand new event to raise money for the Holocaust Centre – Francesca de Takats, Bernie Katz, Victoria Larder, Nicola Larder, Neil Latter, Dr. James Smith, Henry Grunwald, Helen Whitney, Julia Marcuson, Paula Larder, Linda Larder, Andy Hart, Julian Phelan, David Brown, Richard Swallow. Thanks also go to Michelle Sugar, David Larder and Debbie Arnold for their help.
