Celebrity

Celebrities from the worlds of sport and entertainment gathered in London on the 4th of December for The Lord's and The Lady Taverners Christmas lunches.

Prince William is to become the Patron of the 2008 Lord Mayor's Appeal. This year the Lord Mayor of the City of London has chosen Wellbeing of Women, the only UK charity dedicated to solving the health problems that solely affect women, and international blindness prevention charity ORBIS as the beneficiaries.

A blazer worn by late comedy legend Ronnie Barker has fetched a bid of £510 via an online auction at eBay organised by three Oxfordshire charities.

PR expert Max Clifford will be giving the keynote address at Third Sector's annual communications summit on 12 March 2008 in London.

TV soap star Wendi Peters is supporting the launch of the 'Give a Gift' Appeal, Yorkshire Building Society's 2007 Christmas fundraising appeal in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

Twelve classic limited edition 'audreybags' have been created by her family to raise funds for the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund. There are only 36 of each edition of the bags.

Tonight's 2007 Asian Woman Awards - For Excellence, to be held at Whitehall Place in London, will raise funds for Save the Children.

Top celebrity chefs, including Gordon Ramsey, Brian Turner and Delia Smith, have donated recipes to a cook book produced by BUPA to raise funds for three cancer charities and celebrate the company's 60th anniversary.

Celebrity Fearne Cotton is to act as official ambassador of the 2008 24 Hour Famine campaign by international relief and development agency World Vision.

BBC Radio 2 auctions in aid of BBC Children in Need have raised £894,000, including a record £250,000 bid by Martin Ainscough from Wigan for Aled Jones and Katie Melua to perform at an event in Manchester.

Sir Terry Wogan, who is hosting tonight's BBC Children in Need telethon, described Wednesday's result as "the most amazing, the most wonderful day I've ever had on radio."