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Producer Robin Millar marks his 70th birthday with fundraising event for Scope
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 30 May 2022
Veteran music producer and Blue Raincoat Music Chairman Robin Millar will this week celebrate his 70th birthday by also marking the 70th anniversary of the charity for which is he is Chair, that being Scope. Millar’s 70th was actually late last year, but COVID restrictions postponed the fundraising celebrations slightly, and they are now taking place at London’s 606 Club on Thursday with a livestream of the proceedings available.
The official blurb for the event explains: “Robin, who has been blind since the age of sixteen, became Chairman of Scope in 2021, a charity that provides practical advice and emotional support whenever disabled people need them most. It does this through its Scope helpline, online community, a range of employment and family services, community engagement programmes, partnerships and more, with the overarching aim of achieving everyday equality for disabled people”.
“The planned party”, it then adds, “will see 100 invited guests enjoy entertainment from The Stacey Brothers and Andy Caine, featuring musicians who have worked with the likes of Noel Gallagher, Sheryl Crow and King Crimson among others, playing a set comprised of classic songs . This will be followed by a blues set featuring Millar himself – who has released three acclaimed albums as a solo artist – on guitar”.
The stream of the event will be available free of charge to 5000 Scope volunteers and colleagues, while others are being encouraged to make a donation to the charity via this JustGiving page.
Millar himself was recently diagnosed with cancer and is planning to go into isolation the day after the party. Commenting on the event, he says: “I have spent my life in the music business and it has been incredibly good to me, so I’m hoping the industry will step up and help support [Scope’s] vital work”.
“If anyone can make a donation to Scope right now to help over fourteen million disabled people and their families, I would be very grateful and will take great strength from it as I go into my personal wilderness of cancer”, he adds. “This fundraising activity is part of our ambition to halve the employment gap between disabled people and the rest of the population and to send a clear message to businesses that those who welcome and include disabled people thrive”.
