Patrons

Our Patrons

We are delighted at Play2Give to receive the Patronages from a Political figure in our own constituency to a Berkshire-born celebrity, known for many starring film roles.

A special thank you to our following Proud Patrons. . . .

David presenting Andy with his Special Recognition Award in March 2022, at the Didcot Town Council Awards

David presents Andrew with his 'Points of Light' Award from the Prime Minister, at Westminster

David has helped out Andy with delivering presents, pictured right, to some of our beneficiaries as part of our "Sleigh2Give" Christmas appeals in both December 2020 and 2021, in his role as patron

David Johnston OBE MP

Wantage and Didcot MP David Johnston OBE presented Andrew with the Prime Minister's 'Points of Light' Award at Parliament in late January 2020, and was immediately inspired to give his Patronage.

David was born onto a council estate and attended a secondary school where only 20% of people passed any 5 GCSEs. He was the first person in his family to go to university and he has spent the past 16 years running organisations that help young people across the UK to get a better education and a better job.
Most recently that was of being Chief Executive of a charity, Social Mobility Foundation, that he built in 2009 from a team of 2 to a national charity that has 7 offices across the UK helping around 7,000 people from the Isle of Wight to the Western Isles.

In 2018 David was humbled to receive an OBE from Her Majesty The Queen for services to social mobility and education. Having been elected David, who lives in the Didcot area, is keen to see Politicians get back to tackling the issues that he has seen first hand affect people's day to day lives.

David says 'becoming a Patron of P2G was an easy decision to make' and we couldn't be more delighted to have David on board.

"I'm delighted that Andrew Baker's hard work on behalf of many local charities has been recognised. Andrew is an inspiring example of someone who refused to let a disadvantage they were born with hold them back and he has worked tirelessly to give back to his local community, achieving more already than most of us will. It is wonderful that his work has been recognised by the Prime Minister (Points of Light award) in this way."

Dr Winston Ellis

In October 2018 Reading-born Dr Winston Ellis became our first Celebrity Patron. Winston is an actor, producer and martial artist.

Born to Jamaican parents in Reading, Berkshire Winston is an accomplished British Actor and three-time world martial arts champion. Winston has starred alongside Johnny Depp and Kiera Knightley in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3 films. Other film credits include Cass, Batman: The Dark Knight with the late Heath Ledger and Shiner alongside Michael Caine and many others. After his martial arts career had come to an end an opportune meeting with Phillip Ko led to Winston moving to Hong Kong. During his decade living out there Winston made appearances in a number of martial arts films working with actors such as Jackie Chan Jet Li, Jean Claude Damme and Roger Moore, Robert Samuels and Mark Houghton.

Winston was a guest speaker at the House of Commons during black history month where Winston spoke about some of his life experiences growing up in Britain in the 70's and 80's and his personal journey battling dyslexia and racism in the educational system and overcoming them to become not only an actor but a film producer and director. He has host the Against Breast Cancer's Achievement Awards for three consecutive years since 2017, and met our founder Andy at the 2019 ceremony when Andy was honoured with the 'Lifetime Achievement Award'. Winston is delighted to support our good work,

What an amazing career!

We are delighted to have Winston as a Patron!

Andy and Winston first met at a charity function in September 2017

Oxfordshire fundraising organisation Established 2007 - Changing transforming and saving lives across Oxfordshire
Patrons: Dr Winston Ellis and David Johnston OBE MP

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