Fit for the Future

Lord Mayor David Wootton’s chosen appeal theme ‘Fit for the Future’ aims to promote better health opportunities for all, including those from some of the UK’s most deprived areas such as Tower Hamlets where 50% of local children live in poverty and where infant mortality is double the national average.

2012 will see the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee as well as the London Olympics and Paralympics so it’s an ideal time to make sure that we are all ‘fit for the future’. The money raised through the appeal will touch the lives of many by helping to improve trauma care, helping to relieve poverty and hardship and by giving young people from deprived areas new sporting opportunities.

Lord Mayor David Wootton was born in Yorkshire and is married with four children and three grandchildren. David was educated at Bradford Grammar School and at Jesus College Cambridge, where he read classics and then law. While at Cambridge he also captained his college First Boat and he still tries to ensure he rows there once a year with his contemporaries.

We are delighted to have many of the City’s biggest names lending their support to our ‘Fit for the Future’ campaign. Our Appeal Board is chaired by Justin Dowley.