Make the Amy Winehouse Foundation Your Favourite eBay Charity
The Amy Winehouse Foundation has launched a brief appeal to get fans of Amy to make us their favourite charity on eBay. The way to do this for eBay users is simple – simply click this link and eBay, alongside charity partners MissionFish, will do the rest: http://donations.ebay.co.uk/charity/charity.jsp?NP_ID=51211&categoryId=11700 This way, you – and everyone who […]
AWF Joins With Angelus As Petition Launches To Change Drug Education In UK
The Amy Winehouse Foundation, in partnership with campaigners The Angelus Foundation, has launched an e-petition encouraging the government to introduce drug awareness education into schools in the UK. The petition’s launch comes as the Foundation, along with Angelus, are set to visit Parliament in an attempt to get their voices heard. You can sign the […]
Video: Amy Winehouse Foundation Visits New Horizon and Pilion Crashpad Shelter
One of the areas the Amy Winehouse Foundation focuses on concerns homeless and financially disadvantaged young people. Two of the charities that we will be funding under this remit are the New Horizon Youth Centre and the Pilion Trust Crashpad Shelter, both based in North London. The Foundation visited the centres recently, where we got […]
AWF Donates £30,000 To Rehab Charity Focus 12
The Amy Winehouse Foundation, represented by Mitch and Jane Winehouse, has donated £30,000 to a rehabilitation charity in Suffolk. Focus 12, which helps people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, received a cheque from the Foundation on February 24, with the donation being used to sponsor a full-time place for youngsters battling their addiction. Focus12 […]
Amy Winehouse Foundation Joins Sylvia Young Theatre School To Offer Full Scholarship
The Amy Winehouse Foundation is offering one full scholarship for the Sylvia Young Theatre School – one of the UK’s best known theatre schools – to commence from September 2012 until the successful applicant reaches official school-leaving age. As is well known, Amy was a student at the London-based school in the mid-1990s, and it […]
“Body And Soul” Wins Grammy, Mitch And Janis Accept Award On Amy’s Behalf
“Body and Soul”, Amy’s duet with legendary crooner Tony Bennett, picked up a Grammy award for best pop performance by a duo for duet in Los Angeles over the weekend. Mitch and Janis were present, and took to the stage to accept the award after being called up by Bennett. Mitch said: “We shouldn’t be […]
Amy Winehouse Foundation Announces Benefit Concert
The Amy Winehouse Foundation has announced that a benefit concert is to take place in 2012. As of yet no acts have been confirmed. Mitch Winehouse said: “The Amy Winehouse Foundation is very excited to be planning a benefit concert in tribute to Amy later this year. “Thanks to everyone for their interest and for […]
Lioness: Hidden Treasures Announcement
Today it’s been announced that on the 5th December, “Lioness: Hidden Treasures“, the third album from Amy Winehouse, without question one of the most talented, original, and best loved artists to emerge in popular music for decades, will be released through Island Records. Following her tragic passing in July, some of the producers and musicians […]