About The Variety Club

The heart of show business

For 60 years The Variety Club has engaged the elite talent within British show business and sports – from Kylie to Jonathan Ross and Hollywood star Sir Michael Caine – to use their fame to make a big difference to the lives of children and young people less fortunate all over the UK.

Within the entertainment industry the charity has long been known as the ‘Heart of Show business’, and to date has generated funds to provide:

• freedom with over 3,300 wheelchairs
• independence through 4,849 Sunshine Coaches
• hospitals with £20 million
• hope to almost one million children by raising over £200 million.
  

children who have been touched by The Variety Club

Shared vision and values

The Variety Club, like ourselves, has a strong heritage in helping young people and communities all over the UK. Both organisations share a unique vision, values and the core strength of ‘giving back to those in need’. By helping The Variety Club to raise the funds needed to help improve life for children across the UK we're furthering the ways in which The Co-operative is good for everyone.

“I’d like to say how much I feel for the Variety Club and what they do for children. I’ve been working with and around the Variety Club for 30 years and they keep going to help these little mites. They don’t have the same chances that we have, and this organisation helps to give them those chances. So I’d love to thank them for the work that they do.”
– Sir Michael Caine, Winner of The Variety Club’s Bernard Delfont Award for Outstanding Contribution to Showbusiness 2008

For more information about the work that The Variety Club does and how you can further help us to change lives visit www.varietyclub.org.uk