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Byline: Tim Walker If the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art still employs anyone who remembers my profoundly unimpressive acting audition during the Eighties, these must be unsettling times. That hopeless [...]

Byline: Tim Walker The questionable companies that people who had donated to Comic Relief have ended up investing in - armaments and tobacco conerns - have displeased Sir Terry Wogan. [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Paul Flowers has proved an embarrassment not just to Ed Miliband and the Co-operative movement, but also to the charities which were happy to have him on [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Five months after Gina Miller told me of her concerns about the 'careerists' on 'good six-figure salaries' in the charity world, the boss of Miller Philanthropy warns [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Five months after Gina Miller told me of her concerns about the 'careerists' on 'good six-figure salaries' in the charity world, the boss of Miller Philanthropy warns [...]

Byline: Tim Walker While the Duchess of Cambridge has proved invaluable to the charities of which she is patron, Prince Harry is showing that he is also worth his weight [...]

Byline: Tim Walker The philanthropist Gina Miller - she is married to Alan Miller, the original 'Mr Hedge Fund' - won widespread support for her comments to Mandrake about how [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Gina Miller, the founder and chairman of Miller Philanthropy, has stimulated a long overdue debate in the charity world with her comments to Mandrake about how the [...]

Byline: Tim Walker As one of the few individuals in the charity world who can say that she has put a great deal into innumerable good causes - in terms [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Former Salisbury MP Robert Key has resigned as a trustee of the Edward Heath Charitable Foundation after a row over the future of the former prime minister's [...]

Byline: Tim Walker AU NATUREL Her Countryfile predecessor Miriam O'Reilly won an ageism claim against the BBC, but Julia Bradbury is still happy to show her lines. The presenter, 42, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Joanna Lumley, who helped the Gurkhas in their fight to settle in Britain, is to donate her signed Olympic Torch track suit to help raise funds for [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Jimmy Thomas, the casino owner, likes to cultivate cordial relations with leading politicians, but Tony Blair was an exception to the rule. 'I fell out with him [...]

Byline: Tim Walker The name of his new constituency – he said it was Blackburn rather than Bradford – isn't all that has slipped George Galloway's mind lately. Mandrake hears [...]

Byline: BY TIM WALKERNATALIE PINKHAM'S life is one of stark contrasts at the moment. She has been dividing her time between the glamour of the Formula 1 set, which she [...]

Byline: Tim Walker It is not just Tony Blair's companies that are making a fortune. Mandrake can disclose that the former prime minister's faith foundation has built up assets of [...]

Byline: Tim Walker While Sudan expels aid agencies, Patricia Parker is heading back to Darfur. The founder of Kids for Kids, which is supported by David Cameron, has adopted the [...]

Byline: Tim Walker SPORTING CHANCE Not to be outdone by the Duchess of Cambridge, who announced her first patronages this week, Pippa Middleton, above, is doing her own bit for [...]

Byline: BY TIM WALKER MANDRAKE WONDERS if Tony Blair is losing his Midas touch. The latest accounts for the former prime minister's Sports Foundation show that it received just £36,409 [...]

Byline: Tim Walkers Although it is a moot point whether Sarah Brown is more of an asset to charities than her husband, Gordon, there is no question who is the [...]

Byline: Tim Walker As the Prince of Wales's network of charities grows more extensive, one couple whose business was 'rescued' say they have been left bruised by the experience. 'What [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Seldom one to shy away from controversy himself, the Prince of Wales has nevertheless launched an investigation into some seemingly off–message remarks by the representative of his [...]

Byline: Tim Walker While the Prince of Wales has the power to attract attention to causes close to his heart, the withdrawal of his patronage can be devastating. Mandrake hears [...]

Byline: Tim Walker When Mandrake disclosed that Lady Meyer faced searching questions about the finances of her charity, Pact, she might have expected its patron Cherie Blair to issue an [...]

Byline: Tim Walker With Cherie Blair and Laura Bush, the wife of the former American president, as its patrons, Pact is a charity that has garnered much media attention for [...]

Byline: Tim Walker MODEL STUDENT Determined to be more than just a pretty face, the model Lily Cole has gone on to study history of art at Cambridge University and [...]

Byline: Tim Walker MODEL STUDENT Determined to be more than just a pretty face, the model Lily Cole has gone on to study history of art at Cambridge University and [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Prince Harry won an award last week for his work with orphans in Africa, but he is finding that running a charity can be a complicated business. [...]

Byline: Tim Walker When Charles Saatchi announced that he would donate his vast art collection to the nation, he was hailed for his munificence. Now, the gallery of the former [...]

Byline: Tim Walker When Charles Saatchi announced that he would donate his vast art collection to the nation, he was hailed for his munificence. Now, the gallery of the former [...]

Byline: TIM WALKER Sweet Charity *** Haymarket Theatre Royal, London Sw1 (0844 579 1940) to Jan 8 2011 'Boy, am I sick of this musical snakepit,' wails Tamzin Outhwaite in [...]

Byline: Tim Walker CLEAN LIVING Since Fawn James learnt that she would inherit an estimated £650million when her grandfather, the Soho porn baron Paul Raymond, died in 2008, she has [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Tasked not only with fundraising, but for restoring the public reputation and image of Prince Harry's charity Sentebale, Kedge Martin is keen to ensure that there will [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Tasked not only with fundraising, but for restoring the public reputation and image of Prince Harry's charity Sentebale, Kedge Martin is keen to ensure that there will [...]

DRESSING DOWN Dame Judi Dench is known for giving a great deal of herself on stage, but never before has the formidable actress given the shirt off her back. I [...]

Appointed as the first full-time chief executive of Prince Harry's charity Sentebale last year, Kedge Martin, below, could never be accused of lacking dedication. Indeed, she says she deprived her [...]

Professor Richard Dawkins appears to see the disaster in Haiti as an opportunity to further his atheist cause. The author of The God Delusion has urged those wishing to help [...]

Although Jenson Button told me that he had been putting in intensive training for the Nokia Royal Windsor Triathlon because he was so 'ridiculously competitive'', the Formula One driver did [...]

Although the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women was established to promote equality between the sexes, she does not appear to have achieved parity with her husband in charity fund-raising. Figures [...]

Usually the most glittering event in the City of London, the annual gala dinner held by Arpad 'Arki'' Busson to raise money for his children's charity is to be drastically [...]

Boris Johnson, who showed his skills when he rugby-tackled a German opponent during a football match in Reading in 2006, has been asked to return to the fray. Nick Wheeler, [...]

Prince Harry is angry that Sentebale - the charity he set up in southern Africa in honour of his mother - has been able to give only a tiny fraction [...]