Uri Geller Charitable Foundation
Uri founded his Charitable foundation in order to raise money for the various causes that are close to his heart. As well as working hard to raise money for dozens of causes, Uri regularly gives of his personal time including opening up his house to charity groups.
Thank You Letters
- Save a Child’s Heart
- Schneider Children’s medical centre
- Mail Force Charity – Ukraine
- The Magic Touch
- Save a Child’s Heart. The Jerusalem Post
- Chasdei Naomi
- Team Alyssa
- Thank you Uri from the NALA Foundation
- National Support Center for Children with Cancer
- rachasheilev.org
- Thank you for the donation
- Solving Kids’ Cancer
- Solving Kids’ Cancer Europe – Daya Amole’s Urgent Appeal.
- Ten thousands smiles and “thank you”s – thanks to you!
- BongoHive
- Make A Wish
- Disney – Project Legion
- Go Fund Me. Finn Skydive
- Office of Director General – Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel
- Thank You Plaque
- Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel Thank You Letter
- Synagogue Donation.
- Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel
- שוב תודה!
- The Young Lives Foundation
- The Love Foundation.
- Lord James
- Cancer Hair Care £5235!
- Children’s Hospital Garden
- Jack’s Goal
- Children’s Hospice Appeal
- Schneider Children’s Hospital
- Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSHCC)
- Ryan’s Letter
- Uri’s Open House
- Uri must be joking – Supt’s locked up
- Extra Charities
- Charity
- Facial Palsy
- MoD Boscome Charity Fundraising Dinner
- Safe Haven for Donkeys
- Neuro Fibromatosis Association
- Community Security Trust
- Uri Geller for Israel
- Peace of Mind
- Ezer Mizion
- Barbara Clark & Uri Geller – The Independent on Sunday
- United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIL)
- Being There Foundation
- British Red Cross
- Ezer Mizion
- Historic Push for U.S. and EU Bans on Monkey Experiments.
- Israeli Flying Aid
- Warm Welcome for Children with Cancer
- Mad Hatter
- Ellie May
- Israel Cancer Association
- Save the children
- Sonning Parish Council
- MSRC
- Haven House Foundation
- National Literacy Trust
- Trustees of the Ellie May Fund
- Uri forks out charity cash
- Cancer fighter gets Uri backing
- King David Junior School
- Wunschdirwas
- Wokingham Charity Hospital
- Pavilion building at Wokingham Community Hospital was opened by Uri Geller
- Sri Agathiar Sanmarka Sangam Ltd
- Larger than life
- Israeli Health Support Organisation
- Comic Relief
- Anthea Turner Summer Ball
- Supporting Israel for Life
- The Retired Greyhound Trust celebrated its birthday last week
- Billy Wrights Cancer Fighting Fund
- Helping people face their challenges
- PSYCHIC AIDS CANCER PLEAPSYCHIC AIDS CANCER PLEA
- Haven House Foundation
- A bit of a mouthful for Uri
- Star studded day is winner for Hospice
- St Joseph Garden Fete
- Elem – Youth in distress
- Community Security Trust
- Financial Support
- Joodles
- Magazine
- Linda Jackson Mcmillan Cancer
- TJF
- Dear Blind UK
- Colin Barrow
- Lifeboats
- Dingley Family and Play Therapy Group
- Letter 08
- Camp Simcha
- Green Meadow
- Ezer Mizion
- Celebrity auction
- Doodle Day
- Bridewell Theatre
- Ezer Mizion Newsletter
- Bend It Like Geller
- Camp Simcha
- Lifeboats
- Ezer Mizion
- Letter 07
- Letter from the National Autistic Society
- The Melksham Independent News
- Alut
- British Friends of Ezer Mizion
- Uri Bend His Mind to Fund Raising
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Charity begins at home. Which is why, when Hanna, Shipi and I returned to England, we came back to a mountain of forms, applications, invitations and pleas. Running a charity is a full-time job — and I feel like we’ve already got about six of those!
We set up the Uri Geller Charitable Foundation a couple of years ago, to give us the power to give help where we saw it was most needed. I’ve been helping charities throughout my career, and it’s one of the most rewarding aspects of showbusiness — but it’s also one of the most frustrating. I can drum up donations, I can give my earnings to worthy causes — but I can’t always direct how it is spent.
In plenty of cases, I’m happy to leave the business side to the experts. When I raise funds for the Isle of Wight zoo, for instance, I know that the animals are getting the best care imaginable... and I’m not volunteering to feed the tigers myself. As a vegetarian, I’d be happiest if all the animals were free, in their natural habitat — but as a realist I provide the best help I can.
Another example: my friends at the RSPCA know far more about the complexities of legal issues surrounding neglect and cruelty cases than my brain could ever absorb or ever want to. I leave that to them.
There are many moments, though, when my heart longs to be able to help directly. Yes, it’s mentally satisfying to have powerful contacts, to be able to open doors and influence decisions... but there’s a world of difference between knowing I’ve helped and feeling I’ve done all I could. Knowing and feeling — it’s like the difference between recognising an acquaintance is a good guy, and truly loving him as a friend.
When I visited the Schneider hospital in Israel and met dozens of youngsters who were fighting disease or recovering from bomb wounds, my heart ached. The hospital is expertly run, and the generous people of Israel give it all the support they can, but it wasn’t enough to know I was ‘doing my bit’ by entertaining the children. I had to feel I’d done everything I possibly could.
One of the girls, Inbal, who was six, told me about her cancer treatment. She was so matter-of-fact about the pain and sickness she had suffered, and so utterly confident that the doctors would make her better — it was desperately unfair that she should have to go through such an ordeal. The huge leaps in cancer care during recent years mean her chances are excellent, and she is surrounded by the love of her family. But resources at the Schnider are under intense strain, and there’s one sure way to improve the prospects for children like Inbal: more funding.
Another patient, Amnon, had been injured by a terrorist Kassam missile which fell on his hometown, Sderot. Amnon knows he will be scarred for life, but he’s brave about it: “I’m glad I have these wounds, because my dad says it’s a miracle there was anything left of me at all.”
The cowardice and stupidity of terrorists sickens me, wherever they strike in the world. One sure way to fight back is by making certain that children like Amnon get the best treatment possible.
As well as supporting the Schneider, I’ve recently been able to give funds to families of autistic children in Israel and help out with cash for individuals who need a boost. And of course that doesn’t only mean Jewish families — I am passionate about breaking down the barriers and making sure that I help as many innocent people as possible on all sides. When a party of sick children visited my home from Israel recently, I was delighted to see many Arab faces among my guests. The charity’s Hebrew name, roughly translated, means ‘Aiding Angels’ — and all those kids are angels.
One of the innovations that I managed to help put in place with the Magen David Adom, or Red Cross in Israel, means that sick and injured children and pregnant women are not subject to checkpoint delays. When a youngster needs urgent medical treatment, it’s insane to impose hold-ups and process paperwork because the child happens to be a Muslim. Of course I don’t earn a cent for my Red Cross work, but I was so worked up about that issue that I shelved a lot of my day-to-day engagements to see it through.
Back in England, one of the letters on my mat was from a single mum who had contacted me in despair a few months earlier — she couldn’t afford to buy her son’s school uniform. The boy had suffered a succession of troubles, packing more bad luck into a year than most people deserve in a lifetime. Now he was wearing schoolclothes that would make a rag-and-bone man turn up his nose.
That’s where my foundation gives me freedom. I was able to help out with a small donation, and I didn’t have to make long-winded explanations to a bank manager or the taxman. A boy needed a hand, and I was lucky enough to be able to offer it. And believe me, I’m the winner in that deal — his mum sent me a photo of her son, beaming with happiness, and there’s no greater feeling than to know you’ve put a smile on a child’s face.
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