Family of Neil Lawrence appeals for sponsors to save future of his medical creative award
The family of the late Neil Lawrence have appealed for sponsors to come forward in a bid to keep a creative award named in his honour from being lost.
The STW creative director, who tragically died on a surfing holiday in July, was a long term supporter of medical research organisation The Centenary Institute, and served as chairman from 2008 to 2012.
He also sat on the Board of Governors, was instrumental in launching its annual dinner in 2009 and oversaw the strategic re-branding of the Institute.
Great idea, great guy.
To anyone thinking of responding with $$$s for this wonderful award, let me add my encouragement. Yes, Neil was my younger brother. Yes were were close, just as we both were (and I still remain) close to our elder brother Douglas, who still tours the world taking magnificent choral works to many prominent (and humble) destinations throughout Europe. The reason I’m commenting at all is simply to add to the many others who have commented on Neil’s modesty and extraordinary amount of time he found to do pro bono work for charities and help promote NGOs. So extensive was his humility, that I have only discovered several of his longstanding positions with organisations from whom he received no monetary reward, since his death – through the tributes of his many friends and beneficiaries of his will to help. I myself contribute an amount (from an old age pension) to the Fred Hollows Foundation, for which Neil did extensive promotional work. Please help: NOT because I share his name but because of the worthiness of what his immediate family is trying to keep going. Sincerely, Mark Lawrence.