{{short description|British charity supporting those who have served the entertainment industry}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox organization | name = Royal Variety Charity | image = | type = | logo = Royal Variety Charity logo.svg | logo_upright = 1.2 | founded = 1908 | vat_id = | registration_id = | location = [[Twickenham, London]]<br />England, United Kingdom | origins = | key_people = [[Giles Cooper (producer)|Giles Cooper]] (chairman) | region_served = UK | product = | focus = | method = | revenue = | endowment = | num_volunteers = | num_employees = | num_members = | subsid = | owner = | former_name = {{ubl|Variety Artistes' Benevolent Fund|{{nobreak|Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund}}}} | website = {{url|royalvarietycharity.org}} | dissolved = | footnotes = }} The '''Royal Variety Charity''' is a British charity based in [[Twickenham]], [[London]], England. It is dedicated to giving support to those who have professionally served the entertainment industry and find themselves sick, impoverished or elderly.
The charity is believed to be one of the few charities in the UK that has an unbroken line of patronage from the reigning monarch since [[George V]] in the early twentieth century. [[Charles III|King Charles III]] is the current sole life-patron of the charity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.royalvarietycharity.org/royal-variety-charity/royal-patronage|title=Royal Variety Patrons}}</ref>
Established in 1908, the charity was originally called the '''Variety Artistes' Benevolent Fund''', and then in 1971 the '''Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund''', and before being officially permitted in June 2015 to use the title the Royal Variety Charity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.royalvarietycharity.org/news/detail/eabf-officially-changes-name-to-the-royal-variety-charity|title=EABF changes name to Royal Variety Charity}}</ref>
It provides residential and nursing care for elderly entertainers at its own care home, [[Brinsworth House]] in [[Twickenham]] and also provides a nationwide grant scheme for those living in their own homes, of any age, living anywhere in the UK.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.royalvarietycharity.org/royal-variety-charity|title=Royal Variety Criteria of Support}}</ref>
==Royal Variety Performance== {{Main|Royal Variety Performance}}
The Royal Variety Charity has organised its own annual fundraising event called the Royal Variety Performance since 1912, which is attended by the monarch or other senior members of the [[British royal family]].
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[[Category:1908 establishments in England]] [[Category:Charities based in London]] [[Category:Organisations based in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames]] [[Category:Organizations established in 1908]]
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