Charity Involvement
Atul is heavily involved in the children’s charities Barnardo’s, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Save the Children. He has an overwhelming passion to support under privileged children and continues to work closely with these charities and many others. Atul is also proud to be an Ambassador for Find Your Feet, a small charity that supports poverty stricken rural areas by developing successful poverty-relief programmes that encourage self-sufficiency and independence. An active ambassador, since 2007 Kochhar has visited Find Your Feet’s vital work in India and hosted fundraising dinners that have raised over £35,000; helping thousands of families in his home state of Jharkhand, and throughout northern India, out of hunger and poverty.
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