Variety, the Children's Charity

Signed, a heartbroken mother.Since efforts to trace the mother failed, the members of the Variety Club named the child Catherine Variety Sheridan after the location in which she was found, and undertook to fund the child's living expenses and education.

That is a reference to those who erected the old circus tents or, nowadays, provide the various technical experts to make a film or stage a live production.

Variety was started in the UK in 1949 with a dinner at the Savoy Hotel attended by film moguls, agents and celebrities, all eager to freely donate their time and talent to help raise funds for children.

The Club's annual get-together provided a popular meeting place for England's entertainment industry.

A list of celebrities, industry stalwarts and kingpins, as well as personalities from the fields of film, TV, comedy, theatre, Sports, pop and classical music.

[5] Previous award winners include[6] Audrey Hepburn, Leslie Caron, Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates,[7] Alec Guinness, The Beatles, Maggie Smith, Anthony Hopkins, Phil Collins, Elaine Paige, Keira Knightley, Peter O'Toole, Jeremy Irons, Jude Law, Sean Connery, James McAvoy, Kenneth Brannagh, Ricky Gervais, Muhammad Ali,[8] Michael Caine, Stephen Fry, John Hurt, Alan Carr, Michael Parkinson, Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bonnie Tyler,[9] Tom Jones, Kylie Minogue, Culture Club, Lisa Stansfield, Spandau Ballet, Judi Dench, Daniel Radcliffe, Katherine Jenkins, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and Ewan McGregor.