What Is The Light Fund All About?

The Light Fund is the industry's umbrella charitable body that raises funds for specific charity projects covering children, women and men.

Since its inception The Light Fund in 2004, it has raised well over £350,000 for a number of charities including The Children's Trust, Kidscape, Teenage Cancer Trust Hospital, Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre, Guide Dogs For The Blind, The Orchid Trust and Prostate Cancer Care.

The Light Fund was set up five years ago, spearheaded by Max Publishing directors Jakki Brown and Ian Hyder. Together with a group of like-minded people from the licensing and greeting card industry they set about raising funds for specific charity projects covering children, women and men.

Everyone gives their time for nothing and there are no admin charges - meaning all the money we raise goes directly to the causes. Over the last year alone The Light Fund raised over £70,000 which is to fund some fantastic projects.

The funds are raised through organising impressive raffles and auctions at Max Publishing's industry awards events (The Henries, The Licensing Awards, The Retas and The Greats). These mega nights are attended by retailers, manufacturers and those from the licensing industry.
It also organises two annual, legendary Quiz Nights, one in Manchester (in the Spring) and another in London each Autumn.
In addition there are a number of other special fundraising events, some of which are spectacular 'one offs' (eg in May 2008 a foolhardy (but fit) team undertook to swim around Malta and its neighbouring islands raising over £30k in the process) as well as some which are becoming more regular – such as the Golf Day, the second of which takes place in May.

A new one takes place in March 2010 when a team of licensing daredevils are tackling the Innsbruck Olympic Bobsleigh Run to raise money.
For more information on The Light Fund contact either Ian Hyder or Jakki Brown at The Licensing Source Book (founders of The Light Fund) on 020 7700 6740 or ianh@max-publishing.co.uk or jw@max-publishing.co.uk, Trevor Jones of Danilo is the current Chairman of The Light Fund) on 01992 702900 or trevor@danilo.com

* The Light Fund is always open to individuals undertaking their own fund-raising efforts, such as Jane Kennedy (of DF) has done this year with her spectacular group Slimpickings Slimathon and Radders (of Roy Lowe) always has a fundraising wheeze up his sleeve!