A charity gala\u00a0was held at the\u00a0residence of the Italian\u00a0Ambassador in London, Pasquale Terracciano, on 7th December. The event marked the conclusion of\u00a0an intense fund raising campaign launched for the reconstruction of the areas most affected by the earthquakes of recent months. The campaign\u00a0has raised over one million euros. The actor Colin Firth and his wife Livia, both of whom have close ties to the areas hardest hit by the earthquakes, were guests of honour at the event. Giovanni Guidi, an Umbria Jazz Festival pianist, who attended thanks to a contribution by the Umbria Region, opened the event with a short concert intended in particular to highlight the many vocations of central Italy, an area so rich in talent.\u00a0
The largest contributions have come from the British Red Cross, the patron of which is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, who also wanted to contribute personally, and from a number of senior executives at the investment bank Goldman Sachs. Generous contributions have also come from\u00a0Babcock International Group, Barclays, British American Tobacco, Green Network, Hakuna Matata Charity, Investindustrial Advisors, King Digital Entertainment, Loockheed Martin, Mr. Edoardo Mercadante, Rolls Royce, Virgin Group, Westfield.<\/p>\n
Dinner was prepared by the chef of the Italian Embassy, Danilo Cortellini, a finalist in the Masterchef Professionals UK 2015 TV programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A charity gala\u00a0was held at the\u00a0residence of the Italian\u00a0Ambassador in London, Pasquale Terracciano, on 7th December. The event marked the conclusion of\u00a0an intense fund raising campaign launched for the reconstruction of the areas most affected by the earthquakes of recent months. The campaign\u00a0has raised over one million euros. The actor Colin Firth and his wife […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,7],"class_list":["post-52142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-europa","tag-italiani-nel-mondo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}