British Day donates 22,500 Euros to charity

British Day in Hamburg is always a resounding celebration of German-British friendship, but it also serves a further good cause. The 14,000 visitors who enjoyed the daytime programme and the British Day Open Air Proms Concert on 5 - 6 September at the Hamburg Polo Club helped raise 22,500 Euros for charity, bringing the total donated over the past 19 years to more than 350,000 Euros.

Cheques were handed over by British Day initiator Peter Rogers at a reception at the Anglo-German Club in Hamburg on 1 December. Donations of 10,500 Euros each went to the Hamburger Hospiz, to be spent on new beds for hospice patients, and to the German charity for brittle bone disease sufferers, DGOI, to fund a weekend workshop to help young people learn to manage a wheelchair in a big city.

Donations also went to the National Malaya and Borneo Veterans Association and to the BCCG Foundation, which offers scholarships to British and German students who plan to study in each other’s country.

Next year British Day will be celebrating its 20th anniversary and the date is already fixed: Saturday 28 - Sunday 29 August at the Hamburg Polo Club.