Anthony Nolan Trust-Annual Charity

Man's London Annual Charity for 2008/9 was the Anthony Nolan Trust. It is the only UK charity to provide life-saving donors for patients in need of bone marrow transplants. They received a one-off donation from the Trust as well as further donations from employee fundraising activities throughout the year.

Every Child a Chance Trust

The Trust continued its support to the Every Child Counts numeracy intervention programme, which supports the 35,000 children a year who have the greatest difficulties with mathematics. Early problems with mathematics lead to life-long disadvantage and effective early intervention is key to addressing this issue.

Action on Elder Abuse

The Trust made a three year commitment to Action on Elder Abuse, which works to protect and prevent the abuse of vulnerable older adults. Over 100,000 older people in the UK are being physically assaulted, and over 42,000 are experiencing sexual abuse. Action on Elder Abuse is calling for the same urgency to be given to the abuse of older people as is given to child abuse and domestic violence, with the same protective measures in place.

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)

The Trust continued to support the RNIB's Talking Book Service which brings the joy of reading to the blind and partially sighted. The Trust's grant enabled the RNIB to record the shortlisted titles of the 2008 Man Booker Prize.

Beatbullying

The Trust supported multi award-winning Beatbullying, a charity which empowers young people to lead anti-bullying campaigns, preventing bullying in schools and communities across the UK.

SolarAid

SolarAid aims to combat two of the biggest threats to humanity-climate change and global poverty-by bringing clean, renewable power to the poorest people in the world. The Trust has committed to donate some $2 million to SolarAid over four years.

Sponsorship

The Man Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize, which has been sponsored by Man Group plc since April 2002, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2008. There were a number of events to mark this milestone including a display of archive material at the Victoria and Albert Museum and a Best of the Booker competition which was won by Salman Rushdie with Midnight's Children, the 1981 Prize winner. The annual 2008 Man Booker Prize, the judges for which were chaired by Michael Portillo, was awarded to first-time Indian novelist Aravind Adiga for White Tiger. There were 112 entries for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. It retains its position as one of the most sought after literary prizes for fiction.