Dickensian fundraiser (From Hampshire Chronicle)
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Dinner to mark Dickens anniversary raises hundreds for charities
3:30pm Wednesday 8th February 2012 in Hampshire Business
Dignitaries and officials from both charities. Picture courtesy of the Portsmouth News.
HUNDREDS of pounds were raised for two news trade charities at a special dinner to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens in Hampshire.
NewstrAid and the NFRN benefited from support by local news agents as well as the Southern Daily Echo and Portsmouth News from the dinner held at the Hilton Hotel in Portsmouth.
Charles Dickens was a founder of NewstrAid – known affectionately as the Old Ben – after the famous writer began his career as a journalist.
The event included readings from Dickens’ works by his great great-grandson Adam Dickens.
