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20 June 2009
A colleague of the great man was privileged to be a guest at the sumptious Love Water ball held by Thames Water last night. Britian's biggest water company must of course hold the biggest WaterAid fundraiser, and helped by the £1,000 a head ticket price, support from sponsors including programme manager for Thames Tideway CH2M Hill, raffles for a £20,000 diamond necklace and a Caterham car and some frenzied bidding for 12 auction lots, the event raised a whopping £636,000 for WaterAid.
Thanking everyone for their generosity, WaterAid deputy chief exec Andrew Cook confirmed it was the charity's biggest ever fundraiser, comfortably exceeding Thames' own £500,000 target.
The 1,000-strong gathering was entertained by top comic Michael McIntrye and singer Will Young at the Old Billingsgate former fish market in London's Square Mile. This building is now no more than a shell, and everything needed to transform it from a chilly riverside warehouse into a five star entertainment venue had to be shipped in. This included three 1,000 litre bowsers of Thames' finest tap water as Billinsgate no longer even has a fresh water supply. Pop diva Young had insisted on bottled water until it was explained this was a Thames Water bash, and he was seen on stage sipping appreciately from a drinking bottle of what we can only assume was indeed tap water. Young is of course an erstwhile winner of talent show Pop Idol and McIntryre could not resist a dig at Scottish Water who apparently had runner up Gareth Gates as the turn for their charity bash.
Competition among the water companies to hold the biggest and best WaterAid fundraiser may be a tad childish, but at least it's all in a good cause!
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