{"id":10743,"date":"2009-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"ark-aims-to-rise-above-recession-with-charity-extravaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/ark-aims-to-rise-above-recession-with-charity-extravaganza.html","title":{"rendered":"Ark aims to rise above recession with charity extravaganza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Telegraph.co.uk &#8211; Mayor Boris Johnson will welcome guests, thought to include Tony Blair, Elton    John and Jemima Khan, who have paid up to &pound;100,000-a-table to be at the    event at the former Eurostar terminal at Waterloo.  <\/p>\n<p> Despite being dubbed Britain&#8217;s most extravagant party, the organisers said it    will be more low key.  <\/p>\n<p> Arpad &quot;Arki&quot; Busson, the French financier and chairman of the    dinner&#8217;s charity Absolute Return for Kids, said: &quot;We have cut the costs    of staging the event by two-thirds and there are two-thirds less luxury lots    too. We have to be reflective and respecting of the times.&quot; <\/p>\n<p> Whereas in past years, Prince, Elton John and Stevie Wonder have performed,    this year the entertainment will be provided by the London Chamber    Orchestra.  <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/newsbysector\/banksandfinance\/5437746\/Ark-aims-to-rise-above-recession-with-charity-extravaganza.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph.co.uk &#8211; Mayor Boris Johnson will welcome guests, thought to include Tony Blair, Elton John and Jemima Khan, who have paid up to &pound;100,000-a-table to be at the event at the former Eurostar terminal at Waterloo. Despite being dubbed Britain&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1362,718,12605,5502,12607,4817,12604,12603,12608,11755,12606,363,3497,3132,12609],"class_list":["post-10743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-absolute-return","tag-arpad","tag-boris-johnson","tag-charity","tag-elton-john","tag-financier","tag-jemima-khan","tag-london-chamber-orchestra","tag-organisers","tag-prince","tag-stevie-wonder","tag-telegraph","tag-tony-blair","tag-two-thirds","tag-waterloo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}