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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 6pt 0pt 0cm; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Away from journalism, I'm a photographer and trustee of Raleigh International. 'Because We Can' is a fundraising project I've launched to create a bursary: <strong><em> </em></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 6pt 0pt 0cm; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">My role will be to take portraits of the talented people I've met during my career at the BBC and ITN.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm grateful to colleagues such as Andy Parfitt, Controller BBC Radio 1 and the station's DJ's Trevor Nelson and Tim Westwood who have agreed to pose for me.</span><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 6pt 0pt 0cm; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The pictures will be displayed in a central London gallery and I'm grateful to Eamonn McCabe, a photographer whose work I have long admired, for agreeing to curate the exhibition.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 6pt 0pt 0cm; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">We'll open the exhibition with a private view and close with a gala fundraising dinner. All proceeds will go towards the 'Because We Can' bursary fund.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 6pt 0pt 0cm; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Please make any donations on this page and for more information on Raleigh see below. <strong>Thank you</strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 2.55pt 0pt 0cm; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Raleigh is a well established youth and education charity originally formed in 1984. Over 30,000 young people have taken transformational journeys on Raleigh expeditions with tangible proven outcomes. Our particular expertise is in creating a supportive but challenging environment in which young people can learn to work together in teams from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. Our young people have made a substantial contribution to the improvement of basic services such as water, sanitation and education in marginalised communities across the world.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 140%; margin: 0cm 2.55pt 0pt 0cm; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="line-height: 140%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">At a time of unprecedented challenge for youth in the UK Raleigh wants to ensure that young people have the choice to take responsibility for their own lives and achieve their potential, regardless of their background or financial circumstances. With your support you will help us to make a positive impact on the lives of these young people, to give them skills and confidence and to raise their aspirations so that they can make a positive change in society. </span></p>
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