The TONI&GUY Charitable Foundation was established in 2003 by Toni Mascolo and his wife Pauline, with the aim of supporting a number of worthwhile charitable causes - it is currently funding the urgently needed £700,000 renovation of the TONI&GUY Ward at the Variety Club Children’s Hospital, London, through fundraising events and the generosity of TONI&GUY and Essensuals clients and staff. Less than 5% of our voluntary income goes on our administration costs, leaving the rest to be spent on worthy causes.
The TONI&GUY Charitable Foundation pledged £700,000 to totally renovate one of the tired and congested wards in the Variety Club Children’s Hospital. This allowed the Hospital, based at King’s College Hospital, London to create the TONI&GUY Ward - a brand new state-of-the-art ward, with up-to-date equipment and large, spacious colourful rooms.
40,000 children are treated at this hospital every year and it is renowned for providing quality services for children who travel from across the country for specialist treatment, particularly in the fields of liver disease, neurosurgery, cystic fibrosis and sickle sell disease.
The new TONI&GUY Ward makes sure that the Variety Club Children’s Hospital can continue to provide the first class care they are renowned for.
As well as the Variety Club, the Foundation has been supporting the Fondazione Oasi Regina Degli Angeli in the construction of a centre which offers support to those people who are at a disadvantage due to physical or psychological problems, or because of their social or personal circumstances. The refuge supports numerous vulnerable children and young people to escape problems of abuse.
The Fondazione are working to complete the Hostel, develop medical facilities which are run by volunteer doctors and paramedics, and create educational resources for residents.
We also support the Terence Higgins Trust to achieve their vision of a world where people with HIV live healthy lives free from prejudice and discrimination, and good sexual health is a right and reality for all.
The TONI&GUY Charitable Foundation’s registered charity number is 1095285