Alice Hutton
Actor Tom Hardy might soon be bursting onto cinema screens as the villain in the new Batman movie, but he has just returned from braving icy winds in Siberia to raise £30,000 for a Cambridge homeless charity. The 34-year-old London-born actor has been a patron of Cambridge charity Flack since it was founded.
The charity, originally known as Willow Walker, provided homeless extras for the BBC dramatisation of Alexander Master’s book Stuart: A Life Backwards, which starred Hardy as Cambridge man Stuart Shorter.
The role was pivotal to the actor’s career – he was nominated for a Bafta – and he became a staunch advocate of the group, which supports the homeless in the city by publishing a listings magazine. But after a mammoth campaign to raise £45,000 for Flack in December last year, the actor signed up to cross the Siberian Steppes to boost its coffers.
He returned on February 25 with £15,235 in the bank and now he is urging the county’s residents to dig deeper and help him reach his total of £30,000. Mr Hardy, who is a recovered drug addict, said he was inspired to take on the journey by the stories of the people he met. He added: “I’m incredibly proud to be patron of Flack.
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