Charity
Always giving back to our local communities and the causes close to our hearts. These are some of the charities we have raised for.
- Bowie Home
- House of St Barnabas
- North Paddington Food Bank
Throughout the lockdown, our team of volunteers baked and donated lamingtons and cakes for the NHS frontline workers, from St Mary’s hospital to St Thomas’s. The response was overwhelming and Radio Lamington was born to continue the love of the humble Aussie cake and support our NHS heroes. So far we have donated close to 100,000 lamingtons and cakes.
The Great Plate Robbery
In June 2026 we hosted our first Great Plate Robbery gala dinner at Bondi Green, raising over £100,000 for two charities very close to our hearts: The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity and Prostate Cancer Research.
Guest chefs Claude Bosi, Bleecker Burger and Emily Roux cooked, and Sally Phillips hosted.
The auction plates were hand-painted by the artist Margo Mc Daid in her Margate studio, made with Duchess China 1888.
ZiggyFest
ZiggyFest returned to Heddon Street for one unforgettable celebration of David Bowie, raising over £30,000 for Sarabande Foundation, Bowie’s House and Magic Breakfast. The first ZiggyFest, in September 2025, raised more than £40,000 for Sarabande Foundation and Magic Breakfast.
More than fifty years after Bowie was photographed here for the cover of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, the street was once again filled with music, led by Bowie’s longtime guitarist and collaborator Kevin Armstrong.
Sarabande, founded by Lee Alexander McQueen, supports the next generation of creative talent through scholarships, studio spaces and mentoring, while Bowie’s House is working to preserve David Bowie’s childhood home at 4 Plaistow Grove and create a new space dedicated to inspiring young people through the arts.
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
Through September 2026 we added a discretionary £1 per person to every bill, in memory of our icon, Dolly Parton, for her Imagination Library: free books for children from birth to five.
Imagination Library →A Year of Giving
- September 2025ZiggyFest£40,000+For Sarabande Foundation and Magic Breakfast, at our first ZiggyFest on Heddon Street.
- Christmas 2025Soho Parish School£12,000+A £1 donation on every bill over Christmas, then a Bowie night at Ziggy Green on 10 January, to help keep the school open.
- June 2026The Great Plate Robbery£100,000+For The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity and Prostate Cancer Research.
- July – August 2026Magic BreakfastNutritious breakfasts for children in need across the UK.
- September 2026Dolly Parton’s Imagination LibraryA discretionary £1 per person on every bill, for free books for children from birth to five.
- September 2026ZiggyFest£30,000+For Sarabande Foundation, Bowie’s House and Magic Breakfast, back on Heddon Street.