Fund-raising, as any charity boss will tell you, is hard graft, involving hours of research into potential donors, organising events and trying to convince people that yours is the cause to back. For the Woolf Institute, the Cambridge-based interfaith dialogue centre, that hard work paid off in spectacular fashion last week when it held a fund-raising dinner at St James’s Palace, in central London. The venue, built by Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536, and still the official residence of the Sovereign, was a suitably grand one for a remarkably grand gesture. For at the start of the evening, as guests sipped prosecco, the Ambassador of Qatar, Khalid bin Rashid bin Salim Al-Hamoudi Al-Mansouri, announced that he was handing over a cheque for £1 million from his Government.Guests,
21 November 2013, The Tablet
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