Posts Tagged ‘Secret Millionaire’

Lights, action, sound … Secret Millionaire

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Aidan Hallet

So, it’s happened. We’ve done it. The Secret Millionaire has been to Refugee Action and done his stuff, and the watching public has heard a little about the struggle faced by destitute asylum seekers.

My phone never stopped ringing and beeping after the programme started, with loads of wonderful and supportive messages from colleagues, friends, family etc. Some of you liked the cross-stitch on our wall (a wedding present from a friend nearly 17 years ago), my best friend wondered idly on exactly which date we had purchased our new car! My wife was relieved the house looked decent. I must confess I was slightly disappointed that Mo, our cat, despite being filmed outside the house on the day Jahan came to visit, didn’t make it into the final cut.

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Shhhh… don’t tell anyone – we’re on Secret Millionaire

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Aidan Hallet

So, at last, the secret’s out. It’s been hard enough keeping it to myself since October. By now you’ll all know what’s been happening.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Before I tell you what’s happened, I need to tell you how we got to this point.

Over the last few months, as well as raising money by walking to Loughborough and back, I’ve been part of a team thinking about the problem of destitute asylum seekers and how we can find long term solutions to their destitution.

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