Charity Work
Bradbury is an ambassador for Marie Curie Cancer Care's Great Daffodil Appeal.
In 2009 she competed in the Macmillan 4x4 UK Challenge with her sister, Gina Fox, raising £7,000 towards the £105,000 raised for Macmillan Cancer Support. Later that year she travelled from Kazakhstan to Mongolia with Countryfile co-star Matt Baker in BBC's Around the World in 80 Days in aid of Children in Need.
In April 2010 Bradbury was one of several celebrities to pose naked to help promote Cancer Research UK's campaign to encourage donations of clothes to their charity shops.
She is President of the Friends of the Peak District and CPRE in South Yorkshire. In April 2010 she became president of the Ramblers.
Bradbury also works with the British Heart Foundation to encourage people to exercise more.
Bradbury has recently been appointed an ambassador for the Scout Association (February 2012).
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Famous quotes containing the words charity work, charity and/or work:
“Reputation is not of enough value to sacrifice character for it.”
—“Miss Clark,” U.S. charity worker. As quoted in Petticoat Surgeon, ch. 9, by Bertha Van Hoosen (1947)
“Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.”
—Bible: New Testament 1 Corinthians 8:1-2.
“Even the wisest man grows tense
With some sort of violence
Before he can accomplish fate,
Know his work or choose his mate.
Poet and sculptor, do the work,
Nor let the modish painter shirk”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)