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Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

Part of UK in Ukraine

21st April 2011

Chernobyl charity walk – last chance!

I blogged in March about the Chernobyl charity walk which members of the British and French embassies were planning for 22 April.  The great news is that the event, which is to help The Children of Chernobyl Relief and Development Fund and BLESMA, has already raised over UAH 130,000 – around #10,000.  This is a terrific result – congratulations to all concerned.

What can you do to support this initiative?  Here’s an easy check-list:

  1. Most important, it’s not too late to make your donation and show your support!
  2. Next, you can come with friends, family, colleagues and anyone else you fancy on Friday, April 22, to Mykhalivska Square at 15:30 to meet the team members and wish them well.  The walk will start promptly at 16:00 hrs.
  3. You can also follow the walkers’ every step in real-time by tuning to their blog.

I’ll be there at 1530 to see the team off.  I wish them all the best and look forward to a guest blog on this site after the event.

About Leigh Turner

I hope you find this blog interesting and, where appropriate, entertaining. My role in Vienna covers the relationship between Austria and the UK as well as the diverse work of…

I hope you find this blog interesting and, where appropriate, entertaining. My role in Vienna covers the relationship between Austria and the UK as well as the diverse work of the UN and other organisations; stories here will reflect that.

About me: I arrived in Vienna in August 2016 for my second posting in this wonderful city, having first served here in the mid-1980s. My previous job was as HM Consul-General and Director-General for Trade and Investment for Turkey, Central Asia and South Caucasus based in Istanbul.

Further back: I grew up in Nigeria, Exeter, Lesotho, Swaziland and Manchester before attending Cambridge University 1976-79. I worked in several government departments before joining the Foreign Office in 1983.

Keen to go to Africa and South America, I’ve had postings in Vienna (twice), Moscow, Bonn, Berlin, Kyiv and Istanbul, plus jobs in London ranging from the EU Budget to the British Overseas Territories.

2002-6 I was lucky enough to spend four years in Berlin running the house, looking after the children (born 1992 and 1994) and doing some writing and journalism.

To return to Vienna as ambassador is a privilege and a pleasure. I hope this blog reflects that.

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