All proceeds from the raffle and auction on the awards night go to The Light Fund charity body.

What's It All About?

The Light Fund is the industry's umbrella charitable body that raises funds for specific charity projects covering children, women and men.

Since its inception The Light Fund has raised well over £100,000 for a number of charities including The Children's Trust, Cancer Backup, The Orchid Trust and Prostate Cancer Care.

The Light Fund was set up four years ago, spearheaded by Max Publishing directors Jakki Brown and Ian Hyder. Together with a group of like-minded people from the licensing and greeting card industry they set about raising funds for specific charity projects covering the Children, women and men.

Above: Some members of The Light Fund visited The Children's Hospital recently to witness first hand what great use the monies raised had been used for and to present a cheque to the charity.(Right-left) Jakki Brown (LSB), David Scott (Rainbow Productions), Alison Pilgrim (Golden Bear), Ian Downes (Start Licensing), Ian Hyder (LSB) with Angie Turner of The Children's Trust.

Everyone gives their time for nothing and there are no admin charges - meaning all the money we raise goes direct to the causes.

Over the last year alone The Light Fund raised over £45,000 which was divided between four charities:

The Children's Trust Hospital in Tadworth - where it paid for specialist equipment for its new brain injury unit for severely sick children.

Above: LSB's Ian Hyder (right) and Rainbow's David Scott tried out a soft play unit at The Children's Trust for the severely handicapped children which was paid for by The Light Fund

Cancer Backup - where it has funded TIC, a ground breaking website aimed at teenage cancer sufferers as well as paying for a publication on cancer of the womb. (Image 5 bottom bit of the PDF)

Above: The Light Fund has also paid for the publication of a number of Cancer Backup's booklets on various aspects of female cancers.

Above: Cancer Backup's TIC website, which is partly funded by The Light Fund, provides help, advice and social networking for teenage cancer sufferers.

The Orchid Trust - where it has funded the production of Know Your Balls, a DVD on testicular cancer as well as a resource pack for schools and colleges.

(Image 3) Above: The Light Fund has paid for copies of The Orchid Cancer Appeal's Know Your Balls DVD as well as sending out resource packs to schools and colleges.

Prostate Cancer Care - where it funded a helpline nurse training as well as a workshop facilitated by The Cancer Counselling Trust for helpline nurses and enabled four nurses to complete the 'Foundations in Cancer Care' course at the Royal Marsden Hospital.

We raise the funds through organising impressive raffles and auctions at Max Publishing's industry awards events (The Henries, The Licensing Awards, The Retas and The Greats). These mega nights are attended by retailers, manufacturers and those from the licensing industry.

We also organise an annual, legendary Quiz Night in London each Autumn and this year will hold another Quiz Night event in Manchester on April 17. In addition, in May 2008 a foolhardy (but fit) team will be undertaking to swim around Malta and its neighbouring islands in order to raise funds for The Light Fund.

The Light Fund's 2007 fundraising efforts have been put to good use finding a chill out room at The Children's Trust Hospital, the nursing team's annual training atCancer Backup; production and dissemination of additional know your Balls DVD and resource packs Orchid Trust, and a swimming pool roof at the Honeypot Trust House.

For more information on The Light Fund contact either Ian Hyder or Jakki Brown at The Licensing Source Book (founders of The Light Fund) on 020 7700 6740 or ianh@max-publishing.co.uk or jw@max-publishing.co.uk, Trevor Jones at Danilo (who is the current Chairman of The Light Fund) on 01992 702900 or trevor@danilo.com