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17th October - Henry Worsley, expedition leader and Andrew Ledger appear on BBC Breakfast. Watch a clip below.

16th October - At the Matrix Shackleton Centenary Expedition farewell party, Alexandra Shackleton, grandaughter of Sir Ernest, presents Henry Worsley with Shackleton's compass that he carried on the original 1908 expedition. Henry will now carry this compass to the South Pole, a journey that it failed to complete in 1908-9.

25th September - The Green Door Grill in London launches the Shackleton Menu. Watch a clip from ITV's London Tonight below.

 

2nd-5th September 2008 - Picture Sale.   Caroline Cornell and Professor Ken Howard RA organised a sale of pictures kindly donated by some of today's leading UK artists. The sale which took place at the Fleming Collection Gallery, in Berkeley Street, raised £30,000 for the Foundation.

 

25th June 2008. First Shackleton Leadership Award, worth £10,000 presented to Nick Nielsen, Founder of Envision.

To learn more about Envision watch the short clip below:

25th June 2008 - Fundraising dinner, talk and auction. At L'Avenue in St James's Street, London SW1, this event featured a talk by acclaimed polar explorer Robert Swan OBE. £70,000 was raised, including the rights to name the villain in Andy Mcnab's next novel, which sold for £10,000!

13 April 2008 - Melissa Shipton completes The London Marathon as our first Marathon fundraiser, raising £13,000 in the process. Well Done!

15 March 2008 - New Foundation website launched.

12 March 2008 - Centenary Expedition leader Lieutenant Colonel Henry Worsley gives a lecture to 250 people in Newbury, raising some £6,000 in the process for the Foundation.