The sad death of Terry Venables (Obituary, 26 November) has already rightly attracted many tributes. Perhaps less well known is his extensive work for charity and his immense generosity to those less fortunate than himself.
I had the good fortune to work with him for seven years from 1999 when he volunteered to help us fundraise our research on severe burns, transplantation and surgical reconstruction at Northwick Park hospital and the struggling Northwick Park Institute for Medical Research (NPIMR). Together with a team of celebrities and sports personalities that he pulled together and led, he raised enormous sums of money and helped fund two other successful surgical research institutes as well as NPIMR (now the Griffin Institute).
