Events

The IanThom Foundation has now got its own website at www.IanThom.org. The information on these pages is no longer being updated.

The first annual wine tasting fundraiser for the Foundation took place on Saturday, November 16th, 2002 at StagsHead and was a wonderful success. We raised over $20,000 at that time and special thanks must be given to Jeff and Christina Bryant for their extraordinary work in putting this all together, Malcolm Riddle of Premier Wine Cellars in Tysons Corner, Virginia for his help with the wine, Rik Mulligan, Kat Tracy, Valerie Smith, Julia Lam and many others, without whom this would not have been such a success. Pictures of the event will be posted here as they are available. (There are not too many, however, as for some reason most of them came out blurred - nothing to do with amount of wine that was consumed of course!)

The 2003 event was held on November 22, 2003 and was a champagne drink wine tasting that was attended by over 130 people and raised more than $12,000. As pictures become available I will post them here and I thank you all for your kind and generous donations.

The 2004 event was held on November 13, 2004 and, for the first time ever, I actually cooked! (and as botulism is such a social gaffe - no one died!). Wine flowed freely and I have a ton of poached salmon and beef bourginone left over. The event raised over $14,000 and was a wonderful evening.

Our goal, however, it to raise between $10,000 and $20,000 each year. As information becomes available, I will list it here.

Thanks,

Ian