The PATRIZIA Foundation has expanded its global reach supporting children in need by launching in the UK, with Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber as official Ambassadors of the PATRIZIA Foundation.
The launch event took place at PATRIZIA’s new headquarters in London’s Covent Garden. 250 distinguished guests arrived at the new venue to celebrate the UK launch, including the Foundation’s new Ambassadors, Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber. Students from the MiSST programme played music to welcome the guests.
The PATRIZIA Foundation UK will spearhead the PATRIZIA Foundation’s global fundraising programme and continue its mission to deliver life-changing educational projects to millions of underprivileged young people across the country.
Wolfgang Egger, Founder of the PATRIZIA Foundation, said: “When we started the PATRIZIA Foundation 25 years ago with our first project to help build a children’s hospital in Tanzania, our mission then was exactly the same as it is today: to make education and healthcare a fundamental right for children anywhere in the world. Today, we are immensely proud to have helped build a better future for 700,000 young people across the globe by delivering real life-changing projects within communities that need them most. Creating ‘real impact’ is in our DNA at the PATRIZIA Foundation and we are super excited to bring our mission of helping young underprivileged people worldwide together with our fantastic Ambassadors Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber and the MiSST programme.”
The Foundation UK’s first partner is the Music in Secondary Schools Trust
For its official launch, the PATRIZIA Foundation UK has partnered with the Music in Secondary Schools Trust (MiSST), a charity working in schools serving often underprivileged communities to help transform the lives of young people through music. For its debut project, the Foundation will support the funding of classical music instruments for 300 secondary school children in the UK who are participating in MiSST’s Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber Programme, which is proven to improve pupils’ self-confidence and resilience, equipping them with the skills needed to progress well in life.
Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber, Ambassadors for the PATRIZIA Foundation, said: “We are delighted to have been invited to be Ambassadors for the PATRIZIA Foundation. Supporting children and young people worldwide is hugely important and we’re very proud to be involved. We are especially pleased the Foundation will be supporting the Music in Secondary Schools Trust which provides quality musical instrument tuition in disadvantaged schools across the UK. The transformative power of music for children is universally recognised and the PATRIZIA Foundation UK will help MiSST reach more children up and down the country.”
The new Chairwoman of the PATRIZIA Foundation Board, Astrid Gabler, adds: “Together, we create real change – in the projects and for our supporters. In cooperation, we know how important long-term and impact-oriented planning is. That is why we have been delivering our KinderHaus projects for the last 25 years. This approach allows us to create positive developments over an entire generation and continuously optimise our projects.”
