Educational and Charitable Interests
Her interest in education has also seen her on the "4Rs Commission" established by the Liberal Democrats to look into primary education in the UK.
She is vice-president of NCH Action for Children and Barnardo's, and was in the NSPCC’s Hall of Fame. She runs the London Marathon to raise funds for Barnardo's and the Sickle Cell Society. She is a cultural ambassador for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. In September 2011, Floella participated in the Great North Run.
She features in the BBCs CBeebies animation Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies.
In July 2007 she spoke of what she saw as the low standard of children's television.
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