At the Hunter Foundation dinner tonight at Edinburgh’s EICC those attending will be given the chance to be in the next JK Rowling film.
Auction prizes at the dinner will also include:
- Two walk in parts in the next J.K. Rowling Fantastic Beasts film
- Naming rights to the Gleneagles Hotel American Bar
Sir Tom Hunter said : “The support from the Scottish business community for our event has been phenomenal and we’re looking forward to seeing many well-kent faces at our flagship dinner. T
“here are some fantastic money can’t buy auction prizes and all of the profits will go to Scottish children charities.”
President Barack Obama is to give the keynote address in his first major speech since leaving office in January this year.
Secondary schoolchildren were given the chance to win a table at the dinner to hear the President’s speech. Milo Stricevic a pupil at Hyndland Secondary School won a table along with her teacher Ms McGuire for her poem If I Ruled Scotland. Milo won the Stabilo Young Journalist of the Year prize last year with £1000 of journalism supplies for her school and she is a councillor with Glasgow Youth Council.
Milo’s poem begins :
If I Ruled Scotland
If I ruled Scotland here is what I’d do
I’d make everything equal for me and you
I’d educate Scotland on hope and peace
And make the minorities feel at ease
If I ruled Scotland here’s a law I would pass
When the sun shone no kids were in class
Instead we’d play rounders or read in the shade
(after all it’s unlikely to last more than one day!)
Tickets for the dinner are sold out, and widely speculated to have cost those attending around £5,000 for each table. The money raised will support The Hunter Foundation projects which have the aim of ridding the world of poverty and some causes supported by the Obama Foundation.
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