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Guests donate what they would have spent on dinner in a restaurant, so each dinner raises at least £300-400, which is enough to save the life of someone living with HIV in the developing world for a year. One dinner saves one life, hence Dinner for One. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df3b81962ff3e45ae9d15f2/1578233268138-1AZS1XGLJI05N1QN01Y8/AidsArk%2BPreview-025.jpg Dinner For One - It’s a zero-cost event. Some charities invest a lot of money to host a splashy event in the hopes of raising even more. Dinner for One is not like that. Because it’s a ground-up fundraiser and everything is donated we don’t spend a penny of AidsArk money to host the evening. So every Pound raised goes directly to help saving lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df3b81962ff3e45ae9d15f2/1580451103170-Y7BTONBY5FVB5C6PIBAD/16-DSC_8081-Edit.jpg Dinner For One - Ah, the Afterparty… After dinner, at 10-11pm, everyone heads into Central London for the official Afterparty. This has always been a night to remember with legendary performers and great DJs playing through until late. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df3b81962ff3e45ae9d15f2/1578304352472-J8YKX10YVCTA2XL1HBHK/Aids+Ark+Dinner+For+One+2014+%5BLow+Res%5D-024.jpg Dinner For One - How easy is it being a host? As easy as inviting a group of friends for Saturday night. How you do the dinner is completely up to you - informal standing chilli or three course sit down; any way works. Some people like to host together with a friend to share the effort, sometimes a good cook will host with a friend who has a good space for entertaining. We give you all the information you need to ask your friends to make their donation, and your dinner will have its own unique donation URL so you will know how your donations are doing and who has donated already. That’s all there is to it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df3b81962ff3e45ae9d15f2/1578305200206-DYAN7ADAI4TXJ1T3D3ZS/AidsArk+Preview-007.jpg Dinner For One - How does the night work? We recommend you invite guests for no later than 7pm. That’s because you will need to be finishing up your dinner and heading into town by around 10.30pm. You will want to be at the Afterparty by 11.00pm ideally but of course you can arrive anytime. Your guests will automatically be on the guest list, there’s nothing you need to arrange. There is a cash bar in operation, and the performance usually takes place at around 12.30pm. DJs keep the music going through to after 02h00. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df3b81962ff3e45ae9d15f2/1578305152397-LLF1OQW0KGSJDTH90LGC/Aids+Ark+Dinner+For+One+2014+%5BLow+Res%5D-097.jpg Dinner For One - How much should friends donate? It’s completely up to them. 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Derek Frost (L) and Jeremy Norman (R) founded AidsArk that year as a response to the crisis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df3b81962ff3e45ae9d15f2/1578396041275-0JHN6V6YV9MVN445DVBL/aids-ark-logo-white-small.png About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df3b81962ff3e45ae9d15f2/1578223846599-CR7ZS7QJWB5H7TPH4RVR/Screenshot%2B2019-12-13%2Bat%2B17.41.53.jpg About - It should have been a simple solution, but far from it: Supply ARVs to people with HIV and they won’t die from AIDS. But back in the early 2000’s drug costs, governments, red tape and developing world logistics were all challenges to be overcome. In some countries ARVs were still illegal to import. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df3b81962ff3e45ae9d15f2/1578224641753-KS5EKA22IMXAZCP8NWP6/DSC07182.jpg About - Partnering with like-minded Doctors became the answer: It was by finding doctors and clinics like Dr Raju at FXB India, Dr Frank Smithuis at MAM Myanmar, Dr Cynthia Maung at the Mae Tao Clinic on the Thai-Myanmar border and the Desmond Tutu Aids Foundation in South Africa, that AidsArk found the route to supply ARVs and support medical care to sick HIV+ adults and children who had no access to them. Many were on their death beds already. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df3b81962ff3e45ae9d15f2/1578227599005-UQTBPQARGWM8KX0Y7MA1/IMG_5086.jpg About - This model worked, and AidsArk appealed to donors to buy as many ARVs as they could, to treat as many patients as possible. AidsArk ensured at least three years of ARV supply for any new patient. Additional projects were found and funded, some on a short term basis until bigger donors were secured, or the Global Fund took over ARV supply. Others were longer term commitments that continue to this day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df3b81962ff3e45ae9d15f2/1578224167367-EFS8VFZI8AK0H0UAXMHF/IMG20191013141718.jpg About In 2016 David Primost (R) and Martin Franklin (L), previously AidsArk trustees, took full responsibility when Derek and Jeremy decided to retire from the charity. Today, AidsArk is still 100% volunteer-led, with all overheads covered by the founder trustees, and supports projects in Cambodia, India, Myanmar, South Africa and Thailand. All are visited regularly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df3b81962ff3e45ae9d15f2/1606774054165-D9P8AATLEKS1HD5R91AQ/Front%2BCover%2B.jpg About - The moving memoir of Derek Frost, AidsArk Founder Trustee: The tale of a devastating pandemic, of lives cut painfully short; it's also a love letter… Derek, a distinguished designer and J, his husband, entrepreneur and creator of both The Embassy Club, London’s answer to Studio 54, and iconic Heaven, Europe’s largest gay discotheque, met and fell in love more than 40 years ago. Their lives were high-octane, full of adventure, fun and fearless creativity. Suddenly their friends began to get sick and die – AIDS had arrived. When they got tested, J received what was then a death sentence: he was HIV Positive. While the onset of AIDS strengthened stigma and fear, they confronted their personal crisis with courage, humour and an indomitable resolve to survive. J’s battle lasted six years. Turning to spiritual reflection, yoga, nature – and always to love – Derek describes a transformation of the spirit, how compassion and empathy rose from the flames of sickness and death. Out of this transformation also came AidsArk, the charity they founded, which helped to save more than 1,000 HIV Positive lives. This is a story of joy and triumph; about facing universal challenges; about the great rewards that come from giving back. Derek speaks for a generation who lived through a global health crisis that many in society refused even to acknowledge. 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