Jewish Care raises more than £45k at business breakfast
Guest speaker Dame Kate Bingham shared her experiences chairing the government's Covid-19 vaccine task force.
More than 170 people joined Jewish Care for a business breakfast at The Savoy Hotel, raising over £45,000 for the charity’s core services.
During the event, donors heard from Dame Kate Bingham DBE, who in 2020, chaired the Government’s Vaccine Taskforce to steer the procurement of vaccines and the strategy for their deployment during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Discussing the situation and conditions under which she decided to accept the appointment, and the challenges, risks and decisions that had to be made around the development and deployment of the vaccine, she said: “We were able to show that if we are on a war footing, as we were in the early days of the pandemic, we can actually bring together public- private- government partnerships in an incredibly positive, constructive way. We were able to take risks and we were able to set goals.”
Adam Overlander-Kaye, director of fundraising and community engagement at Jewish Care said: “The impact of the pandemic and the relief of a vaccine will always be remembered at Jewish Care, and we will always be grateful that older and vulnerable people were made a priority to receive it.”
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