Elton John´s Charity Ball hit a new record

Elton John’s White Tie and Tiara Ball included many important guests this year, such as Tom Ford, David Walliams and model Lily Cole. £2.5 million were the amount raised last year for charity. The ball is in its 12th year and has raised £40 million since it started. Among the bidders were Richard Caring, Cyrus Vandrevala and John Caudwell.
Part of the donations will go to the Marie Curie Cancer Care Institution. Thomas Hughes-Hallett, its CEO believes: ¨It is never certain how an auction will go and when people like Richard Caring, Cyrus Vandrevala and John Caudwell step up to the plate it makes a huge difference to the sums raised and to the help given to those in need."

Celebrities Last Welfare Galas

The first Ball of the season was last 5 June in Hampton Court´s Evgeny Lebedev´s house. The owner and President Mikhail Gorbachev were the hosts. Tables have been bought for £15,000 and the most coveted auction prize was dinner with the Man Who Changed the World. Last year private equity investor Cyrus Vandrevala bid £75,000 for it and joined President Gorbachev with his family in Moscow; the previous year it went to Hugh Grant, and before that the mobile phone tycoon John Caudwell.
Elton John’s annual White Tie and Tiara Ball got under way last week at Old Windsor, next to Windsor Castle. The guest list included Tom Ford, David Walliams and model Lily Cole. Thomas Hughes-Hallett, the CEO of Marie Curie Cancer Care who was the auctioneer at the Russian Midsummer Ball, believes it is only thanks to the current crop of super auction heroes that record sums are still being raised for charity. He believes: "It is never certain how an auction will go and when people like Richard Caring, Cyrus Vandrevala and John Caudwell step up to the plate it makes a huge difference to the sums raised and to the help given to those in need." Others big charity donors include Sir Philip Green.

Art event to raise money toward Indian Elephants

Up to now, The Elephant Parade is said to be London’s biggest outdoor art event on record. There, 260 lifesize sculptures of elephants strolled along the streets of the city. This year the parade was brought to London by trustees and patrons like Priya and Cyrus Vandrevala, founders of The Vandrevala Foundation; a charitable social enterprise focused on making a sustainable difference for those in need.

The parade was launched in Trafalgar Square and sees over 260 brightly painted life-size elephants located over central London this summer, each decorated by a different artist or celebrity. Those who want to view Marc Quinn’s lifesize elephant sculpture can pop down to New Bond Street where it can be seen from today outside Sotheby’s. This is one of the elephants sponsored by the philanthropist, Cyrus Vandrevala.

Indian Investors Are taking the Housing Market out of Resession

Due to the genuine boom of billionaires in India, the Bollygarchs are steadily snapping up top-end residential property in London's most exclusive neighbourhoods. An example of this is Billionaire Cyrus Vandrevala, an equity investor, was one of only two people to buy a £10m-plus London property in December last year as the recession hurt ultra-high net worth buyers. Vandrevala, who is married to the heiress of construction company Hirco, Priya Hiranandani, comes from one of India's wealthiest families.
Cyrus Vandrevala bought a Holland Park mansion before Christmas for around £22m. He states; “The wealthy Indian community are not highly leveraged and are therefore in a perfect position to buy property at a hugely discounted rate. I am aware of other wealthy Indians looking to buy in London at this current time”. But this is not the only remarkable contribution Indian people have done to the various aspects of London. They've made a huge contribution to business, cinema, health, found raising, etc.

Indian Investors are choosing London to Live

As the number of wealthy Indians is rapidly growing, they take their large families and move to London, becoming “Bollygarchs”. Their name refers to “Bollywood”- the capital of Indian cinema and “oligarch”. This new cohort of Indian Billionaires invests in prime properties helping to ease the UK housing market out of recession. Cyrus Vandrevala; a visionary private equity investor, started investing in technology businesses in his 20’s and now has global investments in a multiple of public and private companies ranging from Telecom, infrastructure, energy, real estate, food and cement.
Cyrus Vandrevala, the equity investor, is responsible among others, for the rise of the housing market in England. The recovery in the housing market has been revealed in a series of surveys in recent months, including the Nationwide building society's index which is based on mortgage data.

Parade to raise money for the conservation of Asian elephants

A colorful herd of painted "elephants" have made their way onto the streets of London in an effort to raise funds toward the conservation of Asian elephants. Elephant Family is the largest elephant charity in the World. One of its most important benefactors is the philanthropist Cyrus Vandrevala, who has also contributed in the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation Midsummer Gala, last year.
Each of the elephants has been sponsored and will be auctioned.The most popular elephant is a white-coloured one beside an enormous bronze flower, also white, by the sculptor Mark Quinn, one of four elephants sponsored by the Indian private equity investor Cyrus Vandrevala.